# Design and Manufacture of a Tape Winding Capability

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

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [University of Bristol](/buyers/university-of-bristol/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: SURFACE GENERATION LIMITED
- Award value: £313,599
- Tender value: £313,599
- Award date: 20 February 2023
- Published: 22 February 2023
- Contract start: 20 February 2023
- Contract end: 14 February 2024
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: goods
- Notice ID: 9aeaf205-dca6-4b0f-89bf-955dfc6149d2-617478
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-d0a06fbc-799d-46f6-b56e-dd2c853780f7

## Description

The NCC is an independent, open-access national centre that delivers world-class innovation in the design and manufacture of composites and facilitates their widespread industrial exploitation\. The National Composites Centre \(NCC\) intends to procure automated tape winding capability for fully bonded pipes manufacturing\. Such equipment must be able to process unidirectional thermoplastic tapes via in-situ consolidation process to manufacture pipe prototypes with inner diameters in the order of 5cm to 20cm and lengths up to 2 meters\. The acquired capability will extend the current state of the art, which is of value and relevance to both industrial stakeholders and overall, UK industrial output\. The capability shall be specified, procured and commissioned to ensure suitability for industrial research and development programs as well as supporting maturation of emerging manufacturing technologies from academia toward industrial application\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/9aeaf205-dca6-4b0f-89bf-955dfc6149d2-617478)