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Buying Organisation
Aston University
Contract Value
£797,000
Suitable for SMEs
Yes
Suitable for VCSEs
Yes
Aston University is putting out this notice as a VEAT (Voluntary Ex ante Transparency Notice).
It is the intention of Aston University to award a 5-year contract for the supply, installation, service and maintenance of an OPM-optimised bespoke magnetically shielded room to from June 2024 to May 2029 to Cerca Magnetics Limited.
Aston University intends to award the contract without a call for competition in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 ((32.2(b) ii.
The works, supplies or services can be provided only by a particular economic operator for the following reason:
absence of competition for technical reasons
Aston University requires a magnetically-shielded environment to support the use of OPM-magnetoencephalography. Cerca Magnetics Limited offer a unique patented shielded room system which incorporates built-in degaussing to remove residual magnetisation and reduce the static magnetic field; and electromagnetic coils which allow high fidelity control of residual fields and their variation over space inside the MSR. This level of static/residual field control is required for the scientific work with OPM-MEG that Aston University intends to conduct within the shielded room.
The University will not enter the proposed contract before 22 November 2023.
Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses) (CPV 38000000)
United Kingdom (UK)
Aston University
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