CERN and industry

During the construction phase of the LHC CERN spent a significant proportion of its budget with industry and the total contract value awarded during that time was some £3.4B. But this spending was not just for construction of LHC but included contracts for the day-to-day running of CERN and covered a huge range of activities, from computing, electronics, vacuum technology to cleaning and civil engineering projects.

The UK wins contracts worth millions of pounds per year. Recent examples are:

• Genvolt (link opens in a new window) - awarded a contract for capacitors
  
  
• Viglen (link opens in a new window) - awarded 2 contracts totalling more that £1.5M for the supply of servers to CERN and have also been working with Queen Mary, University of London to develop a high performance computer cluster
  
  
• Elite Electronics (link opens in a new window) - £68k to produce power packs for the new magnet protection system of the LHC
  
  
• TESLA (link opens in a new window) - contract for ASCUSA magnets (superconducting sextupole). This is a stand-alone project which gives them the opportunity to co-ordinate the project get more experience of the operational performance of the system
  
  
• Shelton Fleming (link opens in a new window) - Design and construction of a new CERN travelling exhibition (link opens in a new window)
  
  
• E2V (link opens in a new window) - high voltage thyratrons

To receive details of tender opportunities as they arise at CERN and other international facilities please register at STFC's tender opportunities webpage (link opens in a new window).

Alternatively, go to CERN's e-tendering web page (link opens in a new window).