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LA3726C - UL - CFT for the Supply, Delivery, Installation and Commissioning of a Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) Interferometer

Public buyer: Education Procurement Service (EPS)
Limerick
Place of performance: Limerick
Estimated value: €100,000 excl. VAT
Amount awarded: €99,821 excl. VAT
Planned end of contract: 1 July 2028
likely re-tender around January 2028
Bids received: 1
Procedure: Open procedure
Any company may submit a bid.
Publication: 7 July 2026
Notice language: English

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Description

Tenders are sought for the Supply, Delivery, Installation and Commissioning a Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) interferometer. The HOM interferometer is used to evaluate the indistinguishability of a single photon light source, which serves as the foundation of Quantum Technologies including quantum communications and quantum computing. This measurement is based on two-photon interference.

The HOM unit is an add-on unit to be used with the excitation source and collection optics of the existing time-resolved photoluminescent microscope (PicoQuant Microtime200) located at MSB-022 of the Bernal Institute, University of Limerick (UL)

Awarded to

PicoQuant GmbH

CPV codes

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38000000 38431000 38432000

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A quarter below: €89,628
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Source : TED – Office des publications de l'Union européenne © Union européenne, données retraitées. Reference 465252-2026.