11757 - Dilution fridge
This project concerns the procurement of a dilution refrigerator (DLN) by QuTech, an interfaculty institute of the Technische Universiteit Delft. The refrigerator must cool research samples to millikelvin temperatures and provide a controllable magnetic field, electrical connections, and optical ports. **Key Facts** - **Title**: 11757 – Dilution fridge - **Issuing Authority**: Technische Universiteit Delft (QuTech) - **Procedure**: Supplies, public, open - **Location**: Netherlands (NUTS NL362, NL361) - **CPV code**: 38000000 - **Publication**: 2025-10-08 - **Deadline for bids**: 2025-11-18 T12:00:00+00:00 - **Value**: Unknown - **Added values**: required: robust, reliable system, possibility for experiments with spin-photon interfaces - **Documents** and **award criteria**: not available - **Bid status**: closed (contract awarded) **Practical recommendations** 1. **Invactor**: Focus on suppliers with experience in ultra-low temperature equipment and medical/or scientific cryogenic systems. 2. **Specifications**: - Temperature depth: down to 10 mK with stable control. - Magnetic field: requirement for a controllable field strength with precision ≤ 1 mT. - Construction: low mantle, LHe-coordination, and sequential in/out. - Optical access: coherent, fluid, and piezo-controlled positions. 3. **Support**: factory injection, firmware updates, real-time monitoring via OPC, PLC or MQTT. 4. **Testing**: produce a demonstration batch, test the cooling cycle, measure field homogeneity. 5. **Sewage gift**: plans for independent risk analysis of CO2-mixed management. 6. **Contract**: define SLAs for uptime, warm- and cold-replace time, and After-Sales service. 7. **Budget**: prepare a realistic budget based on market prices for 4-prefix, ge
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01What is being requested
This project concerns the procurement of a dilution refrigerator (DLN) by QuTech, an interfaculty institute of the Technische Universiteit Delft. The refrigerator must cool research samples to millikelvin temperatures and provide a controllable magnetic field, electrical connections, and optical ports. **Key Facts** - **Title**: 11757 – Dilution fridge - **Issuing Authority**: Technische Universiteit Delft (QuTech) - **Procedure**: Supplies, public, open - **Location**: Netherlands (NUTS NL362, NL361) - **CPV code**: 38000000 - **Publication**: 2025-10-08 - **Deadline for bids**: 2025-11-18 T12:00:00+00:00 - **Value**: Unknown - **Added values**: required: robust, reliable system, possibility for experiments with spin-photon interfaces - **Documents** and **award criteria**: not available - **Bid status**: closed (contract awarded) **Practical recommendations** 1. **Invactor**: Focus on suppliers with experience in ultra-low temperature equipment and medical/or scientific cryogenic systems. 2. **Specifications**: - Temperature depth: down to 10 mK with stable control. - Magnetic field: requirement for a controllable field strength with precision ≤ 1 mT. - Construction: low mantle, LHe-coordination, and sequential in/out. - Optical access: coherent, fluid, and piezo-controlled positions. 3. **Support**: factory injection, firmware updates, real-time monitoring via OPC, PLC or MQTT. 4. **Testing**: produce a demonstration batch, test the cooling cycle, measure field homogeneity. 5. **Sewage gift**: plans for independent risk analysis of CO2-mixed management. 6. **Contract**: define SLAs for uptime, warm- and cold-replace time, and After-Sales service. 7. **Budget**: prepare a realistic budget based on market prices for 4-prefix, ge
QuTech is an interfaculty institute at the Technische Universiteit Delft. The mission of QuTech is to explore and develop quantum technologies, specifically hardware and software for quantum computing and quantum internet applications. This contract aims for the procurement of a dilution refrigerator for a new experimental lab. The research in this lab focuses on spin-photon interfaces for quantum networks and computing applications. The primary objective is the procurement of a robust and reliable system that can cool research samples to millikelvin temperatures while simultaneously providing
02Exclusion grounds
- No specific exclusion grounds were extracted. In a European tender, the mandatory and discretionary grounds of art. 2.86/2.87 of the Dutch Procurement Act almost always apply — check the European Single Procurement Document (ESPD).
03Value in context
The contracting authority did not publish an estimated value — common for a large share of contracts. The EU threshold for leveringen is € 221.000, for reference.
04Likely competitors
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06Frequently asked questions
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07Estimated value versus the market
€ 300K
€ 515K
€ 1,7 mln
Gegunde waarden in CPV 38 · leveringen n=331