01 Procurement
Tender overview
- Buyer
- DIAMOND LIGHT SOURCE LIMITED
- Status
- Complete
- Procurement method
- Open procedure
- Category
- goods
- CPV classification
- Not supplied
- Tender period
- Not supplied — 24 November 2025
Description
Located on the Harwell Science & Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire, Diamond Light Source (DLS) is a leading-edge facility for science, engineering and innovation. DLS allows researchers from academia and industry to investigate the structure and behaviour of the world around us at the atomic and molecular level. To continue delivering the world-changing science that Diamond enables, the facility is being upgraded to Diamond-II, a co-ordinated programme of development that combines a major machine upgrade with new instruments and complementary improvements to optics, detectors, sample environment and delivery capabilities, and computing, as well as integrated and correlative methods. This will be transformative in speed and spatial resolution and will offer users streamlined access to enhanced instruments for life and physical sciences. The scope of the contract is for the design, supply of material, manufacture, assembly, test, delivery, installation and commissioning of a focussing mirror system for the K21 beamline. The minimum scope of the contract is the design, manufacture, test, and delivery of: • VFM upward reflecting, X-ray mirror & mechanics. • HFM inboard reflecting, X-ray mirror & mechanics. • Motorized mechanical bender to adjust the curvature of VFM's reflecting surface. • Motorized mechanical bender to adjust the curvature of HFM'S reflecting surface. • Passive cooling (braids or similar) required due to upstream beam monochromatisation by a double multilayer monochromator. • Vacuum vessel and associated controls. • Support frame. • Interface to beamline services.
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02 Awards and contracts
Published award records
9003532 - Diamond Light Source KB Mirror System for K21
- Awarded
- 19 January 2026
- Award value
- £465,000
- Suppliers
- 1
- Signed contract
- 29 January 2026
03 Organisations
Buyers, suppliers and other parties
DIAMOND LIGHT SOURCE LIMITED
Diamond House, Didcot, UKJ14, OX11 0DE, United Kingdom
Companies House 04375679 →XDS OXFORD LIMITED
Unit 1 Ferry Mills, Oxford, UKJ14, OX2 0ES, United Kingdom
Companies House 04138193 →Companies House links appear only for explicit GB-COH identifiers. BritDB does not create company links from a similar name or address.
04 Provenance
Source for this process
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