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awarded GB open procedure

# QUB/2010/21A Contract for the Manufacture and Delivery of a Parabolic mirror (Collimator) for the High Accuracy Radial-velocity Planet Searcher 3 (HARPS 3) Spectrograph

[Queen's University Belfast](https://tendernation.io/buyers/queens-university-belfast)

Estimated value

£200,000

Published

24 Feb 2022

Deadline

Closed

1 Nov 2021

## Who can bid

- Open procedure

    Anyone can submit a full tender; there is no shortlisting stage.

## About this tender

This procurement comprises the one-off purchase of a collimator parabola for the HARPS3 spectrograph.HARPS3 will be a copy of the ultra-precise radial-velocity spectrograph HARPS located on the 3.6-m ESO telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile and the more recent HARPS-N located on the 3.6-m TNG telescope on La Palma. HARPS3 will be installed at the 2.5m Isaac Newton Telescope in La Palma, Canary Islands and it shall be used for the Terra Hunting Experiment – a 10-year study to find Earth-like exoplanets around our nearest Solar-like stars.

## CPV classification

Mirrors

Source

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