# RFQ - D-Band VNA Extender Heads

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [National Physical Laboratory](/buyers/national-physical-laboratory/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: Virginia Diodes Inc
- Award value: £95,775
- Award date: 15 July 2020
- Published: 27 July 2020
- Contract start: 28 July 2020
- Contract end: 28 July 2021
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: goods
- Notice ID: 253e1a8f-bc04-49d2-8b2a-2b665d6b6a90-372508
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-6df0c8ac-abec-4a66-9930-63c6d374f162

## Description

The current state of the art for traceable RF power measurement is up to a maximum frequency of 110 GHz in waveguides\. One of the chief goals of the EMPIR project TEMMT - Traceability for electrical measurements at millimetre-wave and terahertz frequencies for communications and electronics technologies - is to develop metrological traceability for power measurements in waveguide in the D-Band, 110 to 170 GHz, thereby improving on the state of the art\. NPL's involvement in this project consists of developing a Micro-calorimeter primary standard and direct comparison transfer systems in this band\. NPL is also collaborating on the development and testing of metrology grade power sensors suitable to use in a micro-calorimeter\. Two port S-parameter measurements are an essential part of the development characterisation and testing of these standards and systems\. NPL's current VNA capability can access the WR10 W-Band \(75 to 110 GHz\) and the WR5 G-Band \(140 to 220 GHz\) for measurement of S-parameters across all of these frequencies, but not at the intervening frequencies\. Therefore NPL's current VNA capability requires extending into the WR6 D-Band\. The most effective way to achieve this is for NPL to acquire a pair of WR6 D-Band VNA Extender Heads\. These heads are required to be compatible with the Keysight PNA-X, which will be used to drive them\.

## Related contract awards

- [Strategic Reporting](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-cba20e46-64e6-4c85-9a06-355e1356c369): National Physical Laboratory
- [Awarded - ITT - IoT 5G devices Base Station Emulator](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-d7a738be-ed83-4f10-9015-274de9977ad1): National Physical Laboratory
- [RFQ\_128032 - Bibliometric Assessment of the National Physical Laboratory's \(NPL\) Research Output](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-41dc673a-dc9a-460b-9050-40d4b085cbf7): National Physical Laboratory
- [GB-Leeds: 2023-24/3007 - Supply of a 2\.06-THz harmonic mixer and local oscillator subsystem](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-10dcb0a6-a86e-4c79-a3ee-c5e7fbc9aa77): University of Leeds
- [GB-Leeds: PE2022-23/2732 - Supply of a 2\.525-THz harmonic mixer and local oscillator subsystem](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-51dea971-1fb7-4c9c-a7b1-7a6fa1bb3ff9): University of Leeds
- [GB-Egham: STA-23021 Sub-THz spectrometer system](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-0e51154e-1aa6-44f5-8763-275393e4da5a): Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, known as Royal Holloway, University of London

## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/253e1a8f-bc04-49d2-8b2a-2b665d6b6a90-372508)