Advanced Tap Test Devices

Type of document: Contract Notice
Country: United Kingdom

1. Title: ADVANCED TAP TEST DEVICES
2. Awarding Authority: TWI Ltd, The Purchasing Department, Granta Park, Great Abington, Cambridge, GB, CB21 6AL. Tel: 01223899000. Email: purchasing@twi.co.uk. Web:
3. Contract type: Supply contract
Single stage
4. Description: 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
TWI requires 2 No. tap testing devices for the non-destructive testing and inspection of composite structures, including foam core and thick GFRP structures. The devices must combine the ability to capture and analyse acoustic signals and material stiffness properties in response to surface tapping, by combining microphone and piezo-electric crystal sensors in a single device and using software to analyse the responses
The devices must each be portable and suitable for deployment by an individual operator in the field, without access to mains power (i.e. they must be battery operated
Please ensure all communication, including queries, is sent via the Correspondence facility within In-Tend.
5. CPV Code(s): 38540000, 38900000
6. NUTS code(s): UKH, UKH1, UKH12UKL, UKL1, UKL17
7. Main site or location of works, main place of delivery or main place of performance: Bridgend and Neath Port Talbot
8. Reference attributed by awarding authority: OCID: ocds-kuma6s-128308
REF: AEMRI-309-ATTD
WA Ref:128308
9. Estimated value of requirement: Not provided.
10. Time-limit for receipt of completed tenders 6.2.2023 (12:00:00).
11. Address to which they must be sent: For further information regarding the above contract notice please visit:
12. Other information: Language or languages in which tenders or requests to participate can be drawn up
EN
Additional Information
(WA Ref:128308)
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).
TKR-2023120-EX-1533997