• D.J. Dunning, J.A. Clarke, S. Leonard, N. Thompson
  STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire
• I. Burrows, D.M.P. Holland
  STFC/DL, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire

The ALICE (Accelerators and Lasers in Combined Experiments) facility (formerly known as ERLP) is currently being commissioned at Daresbury Laboratory. It serves as a test facility for novel accelerator and photon science applications. As part of this facility, an oscillator-type FEL will be commissioned later in 2009. The FEL will be used to test energy recovery with a disrupted beam and to provide output for a select experimental programme. The FEL output will be measured and used to determine the accuracy of FEL modelling techniques. The facility could also potentially be used as a testbed for novel FEL concepts. In this paper, an overview of the FEL design is presented, together with an update of the status of commissioning preparations, including time-dependent modelling using the expected electron beam parameters.