# \(VEAT Notice\) - OPM-Optimised Bespoke Magnetically Shielded Room

> A sourced UK public sector contract award published by Aston University.

## Key facts

- Buyer: [Aston University](/buyers/aston-university/contract-awards)
- Supplier: [Cerca Magnetics Limited](/suppliers/cerca-magnetics/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £797,000
- Tender value: £797,000
- Award date: 12 December 2023
- Published: 12 December 2023
- Contract start: 1 June 2024
- Contract end: 30 May 2029
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: goods
- Notice ID: 65374aa9-b404-4388-b63b-ce06ceefb696-706506
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-ef27336f-b8fd-47e9-af99-66aa7b00ced7

## Description

Aston University is putting out this notice as a VEAT \(Voluntary Ex ante Transparency Notice\)\. It is the intention of Aston University to award a 5-year contract for the supply, installation, service and maintenance of an OPM-optimised bespoke magnetically shielded room to from June 2024 to May 2029 to Cerca Magnetics Limited\. Aston University intends to award the contract without a call for competition in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 \(\(32\.2\(b\) ii\. • The works, supplies or services can be provided only by a particular economic operator for the following reason: • absence of competition for technical reasons Aston University requires a magnetically-shielded environment to support the use of OPM-magnetoencephalography\. Cerca Magnetics Limited offer a unique patented shielded room system which incorporates built-in degaussing to remove residual magnetisation and reduce the static magnetic field; and electromagnetic coils which allow high fidelity control of residual fields and their variation over space inside the MSR\. This level of static/residual field control is required for the scientific work with OPM-MEG that Aston University intends to conduct within the shielded room\. The University will not enter the proposed contract before 22 November 2023\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/65374aa9-b404-4388-b63b-ce06ceefb696-706506)