Published date: 8 August 2019

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 4 September 2019

Contract summary

Industry

  • Spectrometers - 38433000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

BIP420111066

Published date

8 August 2019

Closing date

4 September 2019

Contract start date

1 October 2019

Contract end date

30 September 2021

Contract type

Supply contract

Procedure type

Open procedure

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The marine litter team at Cefas Lowestoft Laboratory has a requirement for a FTIR microscopy system that supports several automatised steps for an effective and highly quantitative workflow with full characterisation of plastic of small particle sizes down to below 10 m in size, but also suited for larger particles up to a few mm in size. The system must be equipped with an 128x128 focal plane array detector. An automatic motorised stage including z-stepper, practical data handling and storage allowing data acquisition over a 47 mm diameter filter are necessary. The main objective is the quantification and characterisation of all microplastic particles on filters extracted from environmental samples (sediment, biota and water samples), with high throughput. Time-efficiency in the data acquisition, while maintaining resolution, is a essential.

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About the buyer

Address

Pakefield Road
Lowestoft
NR33 0HT
UK

Telephone

+441502527766

Email

procure@cefas.co.uk