Expired contract

3D Printing Equipment

Details

Value
£689,999
Duration
1 year
Topic
Printing machinery
Published
26 May 2023

Tender description

Coventry University is now developing a new high-precision digital manufacturing and healthcare technology lab to link education in the fields of engineering and allied health, as well as a number of other application areas. The lab is a joint project between our faculty of engineering environment and computing and the faculty of health and life sciences. This lab will enhance our expertise in digital manufacturing focussing on improvements to the whole life cycle of manufacturing processes. The vision of which is to enable the access to state-of-the-art facilities, demonstration of knowledge and skills in areas relevant to practice. The requirement will be broken down into the following lots: Lot 1 - Metal 3D Printer x 3 Lot 2a - Composite 3D Printer, small volume x 2 Lot 2b - Composite 3D Printer, medium volume x 1 The tender documentation can be located on Coventry University`s tendering portal - In-tend. A link to the current advertised tender opportunities at Coventry University can be found below: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/coventryuniversity/aspx/Tenders/Current To access the tender documents you must make a expression of interest and register on the In-tend site.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award date23 May 2023
  2. Completed: Award published26 May 2023
    Current notice
  3. Completed: Contract expiry date22 May 2024

About the buyer

Coventry University buys as a higher education institution, with a centralised procurement team based in its Finance Department at the Armstrong Siddeley Building. Suppliers must complete a competitive tender process before they gain approved status. Tenders run by the University are advertised on the Delta e-tendering platform. Larger contracts are also published as a contract notice on Find a Tender. Coventry University belongs to the Southern Universities Purchasing Consortium, a collaborative buying group for more than one hundred higher and further education institutions. Further competitions run on the framework agreements the consortium negotiates across most commodity areas.

Education procurement reached £47.4bn in 2024/25, the fourth-largest public sector budget.

Over the past 5 years, most of Coventry University's contract awards have been in software and information systems, business services and IT services.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 42991200 · Printing machinery

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