Awarded contract

UKRI-5460 Harvesting of 200 discs

Details

Buyer: UK Research & Innovation
Supplier(s): Lambda Photometrics
Value: £969,858.58
Duration: 1 year
Topic: Lasers
Published: 4 December 2025
Source: uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

UK Research and Innovation had a requirement for harvesting and cladding Nd:Phosphate laser discs for the Vulcan 20-20 project. Due to the specialist nature of the cladding process and proprietary adhesive owned by LLNL, only Lambda Photometrics could successfully supply the required clad and polished discs. ## Contract award Title: UKRI-5460 Harvesting of 200 discs ## Contract award

Timeline

Completed: Award published4 December 2025
Current notice
Completed: Award date4 December 2025
Next: Contract expiry date31 December 2026in 2 months

About the buyer

UK Research & Innovation is the non-departmental public body that brings together the seven research councils, Research England and Innovate UK.

The UK Industrial Liaison Office gives UK companies advance notice of tenders from international facilities such as CERN and ESO.

Over the past 5 years, most of UK Research & Innovation's contract awards have been in business services, laboratory and precision equipment and repair and maintenance.

Decision makers

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