Awarded contract

Contract for the Supply, delivery, commission, installation, consumables, & maintenance of a Femtosecond Laser Workstation

Details

Buyer: Queen's University Belfast
Supplier(s): Oxford Lasers Ltd
Value: £712,183.75
Duration: 1 year
Topic: Lasers
Published: 4 August 2026
Source: uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

The Advanced Manufacturing Innovation Centre (AMIC), led by Queen's University Belfast, is key to an exciting future for manufacturing in Northern Ireland, as an industry-led, open-access manufacturing and engineering innovation centre with state-of-the-art facilities and an expert engineering team, underpinned by academic excellence.   AMIC is expanding its core capabilities in Digital Factory, Smart Design, Sustainable Polymers and Composites Nanotechnology and Photonics. With a growing team of engineers and technologists (currently 50 strong) and building upon a track-record of collaboration with manufacturers it will deliver industry 4.0 solutions for industry. Supported through a £98M investment via Belfast Region City Deal, a 10,000m2 Factory of the Future facility will open at Global Point Newtownabbey in early 2026. The equipment being purchased is critical to the organisational strategy. As part of this project Queen’s University Belfast wish to procure a Femtosecond Laser Workstation. ## Contract award Title: Contract for the supply, delivery, commission, installation, consumables, & maintenance of a Femtosecond Laser Workstation for applications in glass substrates.

Timeline

Completed: Award published4 August 2026
Current notice
Completed: Award date4 August 2026
Next: Contract expiry date20 August 2027in 11 months

About the buyer

Queen's University Belfast is a higher education institution that runs its procurement through the Finance Directorate's procurement team. Suppliers register on the university's own e-tendering site to view and respond to current tenders. An accepted expression of interest opens the "my tenders" area, where full tender documents sit for registered suppliers. A Supply Chain Code of Conduct, tied to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, applies to every supplier. Contracts above the advertising threshold follow the Procurement Act 2023 and its regulations, in force since February 2025. The procurement team takes supplier and contract queries directly by email.

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

Over the past 5 years, most of Queen's University Belfast's contract awards have been in laboratory and precision equipment, industrial machinery and business services.

Relevant CPV codes

38636100 · Lasers

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

Job title	Phone number	Work email
Head of Procurement	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@queen-s-university-belfast.gov
Commercial Director	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@queen-s-university-belfast.gov
Procurement Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@queen-s-university-belfast.gov
Category Lead	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@queen-s-university-belfast.gov
Senior Buyer	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@queen-s-university-belfast.gov
Contracts Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@queen-s-university-belfast.gov

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