# Replacement control system for Hauzer TechCoating PVD Unit

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

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [Sheffield Hallam University](/buyers/sheffield-hallam-university/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: IHI Hauzer Techno Coating B\.V\.
- Award value: £200,000
- Tender value: £200,000
- Award date: 28 January 2022
- Published: 16 March 2022
- Contract start: 1 March 2022
- Contract end: 28 February 2023
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: goods
- Notice ID: 5b9db578-3bbd-4dc6-8bb6-b6ec88aac045-518717
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-99a06753-6966-4799-89bc-9fde2af63362

## Description

There is no other option to keep the coating unit running and bring it up to the most recent safety standards\. Replacing the control system for this unit would be a fraction of the cost of an entire new unit\. The cost of a new unit would be over £1\.2M and would not include the bespoke modifications that the current system has\. Major components of the unit have already been replaced e\.g\. pumping units at a cost of £139k, which were replaced in 2017\. Only the original equipment manufacturer is capable of replacing the control system for the this highly complex industrial machine\. SHU tendered for replacement pumps for the machine in 2016/17 \(1617-05-ACES-JM\) and only Hauzer returned a submission\. It would have been significantly easier to a third party to reverse-engineer the pump requirements than it would for a company to reverse engineer the control system\. An analogy would be that replacing the pumps is like a lung transplant, replacing the control system is like a brain transplant\. The first is very difficult, the second impossible\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/5b9db578-3bbd-4dc6-8bb6-b6ec88aac045-518717)