(VEAT Notice) - OPM-Optimised Bespoke Magnetically Shielded Room

Concepts

• birmingham
• precision equipment
• cerca magnetics limited
• opm
• a unique patented shielded room system
• opm-optimised bespoke
• the static magnetic field
• the shielded room
• magnetically shielded room
• room

Location

Description

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.

Award Detail

CPV Codes

• 38000000 - Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)

Indicators

• Contract is suitable for SMEs.