Official UK procurement notice
UKRI-2132 METIS LMS Large Mirrors
Authority: UK Research and Innovation (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe UK Astronomy Technology Centre (UK ATC) is a laboratory within the Science & Technology Facilities Council which is part of UK Research & Innovation. The UK ATC has responsibility within the METIS project to design, build, test and deliver the LMS to our project partners NOVA in The Netherlands.
CPV: Specialist optical instruments
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1The European Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction in Chile,…Awarded
The European Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction in Chile, will be the world’s largest telescope operating in the visible and infrared wavelength domain. It is part of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), an inter-governmental research organization.
METIS is an imager and spectrometer for the (ELT), operating at wavelengths of 2.7 micron to around 14 micron.
A subsystem within METIS is the LM band spectrometer (LMS) which will provide high resolution (R ≈ 100,000) over the range 2.7-5.3 micron.
A pre-disperser (a low resolution prism spectrometer) with an exit slit mask is used to define the bandpass within the LM band, acting as an order sorting filter for the echelle. Multiple exposures with rotation of the pre-disperser and main disperser are required to build up a continuous spectrum.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 2 Nov 2022, 12:05 GMT
- Last source update
- 2 Nov 2022, 12:05 GMT
- Authority reference
UKRI-2132- FTS notice number
2022/S 000-030943- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-037e5cFind a Tender
- Why no open competition
- No tenders or no suitable tenders/requests to participate in response to open procedure
- Published justification
The contract was awarded without prior publication due in accordance with PCR 2015 Regulation 32.(2) (b)The negotiated procedure without prior publication may be used for public works contracts, public supply contracts and public service contracts in any of the following cases: no tenders, no suitable tenders, no requests to participate or no suitable requests to participate have been submitted in response to an open procedure or a restricted procedure.
Publisher note: Procurement Contract Transparency Data: Redacted contract documents will be made available within the next 30 days on the UKRI website at: https://www.ukri.org/about-us/procurement-contract-transparency-data/ To view this notice, please click here: https://ukri.delta-esourcing.com/delta/viewNotice.html?noticeId=718032910 GO Reference: GO-2022112-PRO-21329889
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecastContracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- UK Research and InnovationReview body
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- CMM OpticAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.