Expired contract

Laser microlithography equipment

Details

Supplier(s)
Durham Magneto Optics Ltd
Value
£135,000
Topic
Lasers
Published
13 September 2024

Tender description

The University of Salford is looking to procure laser microlithography equipment that satisfies the following technical requirements: • Be able to use ultraviolet light to create bespoke patterns on the surface of a wafer or chip • Be able to handle small chips in addition to full sized wafers • Be able to write large blocks of areas in one exposure (for example using a MEMS micromirror array). This means that laser lithography systems that use a single focused laser beam to write patterns pixel by pixel are not acceptable for this purchase • Be able to align the chip/wafer using registration fiducial marks on the backside of the chip/wafer as well as on the front side. • Have a minimum feature resolution less than 0.5 um • Delivery deadline of November 2024 Please send any queries or quotations to o.h.ward@salford.ac.uk by 12 noon on Friday 13th September 2024.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award published13 September 2024
    Current notice
  2. Completed: Award date31 October 2024
  3. Completed: Contract expiry date30 November 2024

About the buyer

University of Salford is a higher education institution in Salford, running a formal, structured procurement process across its schools and services. Open competitive tenders are advertised through the university's InTend portal and on Contracts Finder. Commodity purchases run through consortium frameworks such as the North Western Universities Purchasing Consortium. Formal routes to market include RFQs, invitations to tender and structured supplier onboarding. Every tender carries minimum scoring for social value, sustainability and equity, diversity and inclusion. Suppliers onboarded this way invoice against a university-issued purchase order under its no purchase order, no pay policy.

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

Over the past 5 years, most of University of Salford's contract awards have been in software and information systems, construction work and education and training.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 38636100 · Lasers

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