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Contract award: NPL Management Limited - Supply of High Purity Germanium (HPGe) Gamma-Ray Detector and Cryogenic Cooling System for Gamma Spectroscopy Applications (GBP 6,591,000)

UK Find a Tender Service OCDS API Authoritative source Published 30th September 2026 United Kingdom

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What the source reported

Source-reported

Contract award notice published on UK Find a Tender by NPL Management Limited. Procurement: Supply of High Purity Germanium (HPGe) Gamma-Ray Detector and Cryogenic Cooling System for Gamma Spectroscopy Applications. Description: Supply and delivery of a specialist ORTEC GAMMA-X High Purity Germanium (HPGe) Gamma-Ray Detector System and associated cryogenic cooling equipment from AMETEK (GB) Limited. The procurement includes a coaxial N-type HPGe detector with carbon fibre window, remote preamplifier and high-voltage filter, J-type streamline cryostat, Möbius Recycler cooling system, detector and cryostat configuration pac Category: goods. Value: GBP 6,591,000 (stated award/contract value). Supplier(s): AMETEK (GB) LIMITED.

Publication
UK Find a Tender Service OCDS API · Government/Regulator
Published
30th September 2026
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find-tender.service.gov.uk

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Category
Supply Chain & Logistics
Geography
United Kingdom
Organisations
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Collected
30th September 2026 · 14:42

Initial assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.

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Significance 1 · Low
Confidence 2 · Low

Initial Significance Low (15.0/100). Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact (6.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Impact-Scale Specificity (0.0/10 points). Initial Confidence Low (39/100, data sufficiency: Insufficient). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (40.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Specificity (0.0/20 points). Capped at 39 (Low) -- insufficient structured evidence to support a higher Confidence reading, regardless of source authority.

Strongest contributor
Procurement Impact
Limiting factor
Impact-Scale Specificity