# \(NU/1609-4\) Supply of a Screen Printing System

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

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [Newcastle University](/buyers/newcastle-university/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: BLAKELL EUROPLACER LIMITED
- Award value: £64,450
- Tender value: £200,000
- Award date: 31 March 2021
- Published: 20 April 2021
- Contract start: 1 April 2021
- Contract end: 30 July 2021
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: goods
- Notice ID: 669644c5-b439-4043-bb05-5fc3c4f15487-429886
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-fad17e02-80f1-4f07-bfc2-5b74bd924a56

## Description

The Driving the Electric Revolution \(DER\) is an Innovate UK \(IUK\) Challenge program to support UK industry to seize the economic opportunities from the global transition to clean technologies and electrification\. The programme will help businesses across numerous sectors including transport, energy, construction and agriculture to invest and work together to capitalise on the UK's strengths in this technology\. As part of that program, Newcastle University has been awarded a large grant to establish a new DER Innovation Centre \(DER-IC\) in the North East of England\. The NE DER-IC will concentrate on the prototyping and scale-up of power electronics and electric motors\. This tender is focussed on the power electronics aspect and specifically the purchase of relevant equipment to screen print solder paste on a wide variety of substrates and printed circuit boards as part of a surface mount process line\. The scope is for the supply, delivery, and commissioning of the equipment as detailed in the Invitation to Tender document, with after sales support, a minimum 12 months parts and labour warranty and maintenance\. This requirement was only being advertised to all Sellers appointed to Lot 6: Screen Printing of \(NU/1609\) Power Electronics Manufacturing Dynamic Purchasing System\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/669644c5-b439-4043-bb05-5fc3c4f15487-429886)