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Tender Details
- Country: United Kingdom
- Summary: Low-Energy Proton Facility
- GBT Ref No: 49809940
- Deadline: 05 Mar 2021
- Competition: ICB
- Financier: Self Financed
- Purchaser Ownership: -
- Tender Value: 1900000
- Notice Type: Tender
- Document Ref. No.:
- Purchaser's Detail :
- Description :
- Title : Low-Energy Proton Facility
Location Of Contract : North West
Industry : Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care products - 33000000
Value Of Contract : £1,900,000
Description : Clatterbridge Cancer Centre is looking to procure an upgrade to its current low-energy proton facility on the Wirral site. The National Eye Proton Therapy Centre at Clatterbridge Cancer Centre is the only provider of proton beam therapy for ocular tumours in the NHS. It has been operational for over 30 years and has treated more than 3,000 patients with proton beam therapy. The current service treats on average more than 250 patients annually (300 patients were treated in 2019/20) and is a world leader in the field. The cyclotron, manufactured by Scanditronix (Model: MC-62 PF isochronous cyclotron), was installed at Clatterbridge Cancer Centre's Wirral site in 1984 and remains reliable. Many of the major equipment components remain from the late 1980s and are therefore more than 30 years old. The hardware and associated software used in the low energy eye proton service are mostly bespoke, non CE-marked, and developed by the in-house engineering and physics team during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Service support from the original manufacturer ceased in 2009, and sales of spares, on a 'best endeavours' basis, ended in August 2017. Whilst the main accelerating structures are of a robust and reliable design, a number of syst... - Documents :
Purchaser : THE CLATTERBRIDGE CANCER CENTRE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST
Eaton Road West Derby Liverpool L12 2AP United Kingdom
Contact Person : Richard Jolley
Email :richard.jolley@alderhey.nhs.uk
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