Six Modular Low-Footprint Moveable Wind Tunnels for Teaching Purposes

The University of Southampton is seeking to procure six modular low-footprint moveable wind tunnels for teaching purposes. The main use of the wind tunnels will be to teach Fluid Mechanic principles and expose students to different experimental techniques:

• Laminar/turbulent boundary layer measurements; • Force and surface and wake pressure measurement on a cylinder.

Each wind tunnels will have the following key attributes: • Quick setup, change-over, and removal time; • Modular design that allows easy switch-over between experiments; • Smallest floor space usage possible; • Easy access to all parts of the wind tunnel during use.

We invite tenders from vendors who are able to provide the full life-cycle expertise. In the future we expect to extend the experiment suite to support different teaching labs.

Additional information: This tender will be conducted electronically and tender documents can be downloaded from the web portal (In-Tend) provided earlier in this notice. https://in-tendhost.co.uk/universityofsouthampton.

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In accordance with Regulation 50, paragraph (2) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and subject to Article 5 and Annex 5, Part D (13) of Directive 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council, the University intend to publish the contract value at contract award stage, and reserved the right to do so. By submitting a tender response tenderers are consenting to publication of this information unless otherwise agreed in advance with the University.

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