Hire of Portable Digital Radiographic Site Inspection Equipment

Type of document: Contract Notice
Country: United Kingdom

HIRE OF PORTABLE DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHIC SITE INSPECTION EQUIPMENT
Single stage – Any candidate may submit a tender
Contract type: Supply contract
Contracting authority: TWI Ltd, AEMRI , Granta Park, Great Abington, Cambridge, GB, CB21 6AL. Tel: 01223899000. Email: purchasing@twi.co.uk. Web: purchasing@twi.co.uk (Purchasing Department)
Object of the contract
Bridgend and Neath Port Talbot.
The Awarding Authority is one of the world’s foremost independent research and technology organisations, with expertise in solving problems in all aspects of manufacturing, fabrication and whole-life integrity management technologies.
Established in Cambridge, UK in 1946 and with facilities across the globe, the company has a first class reputation for service through its teams of internationally respected consultants, scientists, engineers and support staff, whose knowledge and expertise is available to its Industrial Members as and when they require.
This specification has been produced as part of an initiative known as AEMRI (Advanced Engineering Materials Research Institute), which is funded by the Welsh European Funding Office (WEFO) using European Regional Development Funds (ERDF). AEMRI seeks to create a unique facility housing a critical mass of equipment, expertise and resources. AEMRI provides an environment to test and prove the limits of performance of advanced materials. Through the use of advanced modelling and simulation methods, full, large-scale mechanical test structures will be designed and built upon finite element analysis (FEA) calculations. Advanced, automated non-destructive evaluation (NDE) techniques will be developed with the aim of saving the industry time and production costs as well as minimising the risk of catastrophic structural failures.
AEMRI will deliver the objectives of the project through the following four technical strands:-
Modelling and Simulation of High Performance Materials and Structures.
Advanced Robotic Inspection of Complex Geometry Structures.
Inspection Systems for Very Large Structures for the Green Energy Sector.
Nuclear Fabrication Research Centre.
The Awarding Authority has the requirement to inspect a hull-to deck joint of a boat which is impractical for traditional ultrasonic methods of inspection. Therefore a digital radiographic solution is desired which will negate the need for the specialist archiving and environmentally-controlled storage of film radiographs. The nature of the hull-to-deck joint means that access for the digital radiographic equipment is very limited and surfaces on which to mount the detector stage significantly vary around the boat. Therefore all equipment has to be highly portable, light-weight and the digital detectors will have to be small enough to fit in the spaces required.
This tender document covers the hire of a single portable X-ray generator, two portable digital X-ray generators termed ‘large detector’ and ‘small detector’, and all the necessary accessories to run the radiographic hardware. The equipment must be available for hire over a full 2 week period, commencing on Tuesday 5 November 2018
CPV: 38582000, 38500000
Administrative Information
Reference number attributed to the notice by the contracting authority
AEMRI-124-HRE
WA Ref:85710
Time-limit for receipt of completed tenders: 9.10.2018 (12:00:00)
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Other Information
Estimated award date: 23-10-2018
Language or languages in which tenders or requests to participate can be drawn up: EN
Additional Information
Relates to the following project/programme financed by EU Community Funds: This specification has been produced as part of an initiative known as AEMRI (Advanced Engineering Materials Research Institute), which is funded by the Welsh European Funding Office (WEFO) using European Regional Development Funds (ERDF)
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