# Design Software Licences for Application Specific Integrated Circuits

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED](/buyers/uk-shared-business-services-limited/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: [Cadence Design Systems Ltd](/contract-winners/cadence-design-systems/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £442,075
- Tender value: £442,075
- Award date: 13 December 2018
- Published: 18 February 2019
- Contract start: 20 December 2018
- Contract end: 18 December 2021
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: goods
- Notice ID: 0afa08fe-cffc-427e-9c29-359379194b50-270527
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-cf14a17e-aea0-4196-a243-704de10110f2

## Description

The UKRI Scientific Facilities Research Council's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory have purchased commercial use licenses of integrated circuit design software to support their ongoing programme of translating scientific designs to commercial applications, fully compatible with STFC's own design libraries and their existing range of semiconductor foundry technologies

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/0afa08fe-cffc-427e-9c29-359379194b50-270527)