Published date: 8 October 2017

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: 7 November 2017

Contract summary

Industry

  • Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses) - 38000000

Location of contract

Yorkshire and the Humber

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

BIP281676588

Published date

8 October 2017

Closing date

7 November 2017

Contract start date

3 January 2018

Contract end date

3 January 2023

Contract type

Works

Procedure type

Open procedure

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The Astbury BioStructure Laboratory (ABSL) at the University of Leeds has identified a requirement for four instruments to perform correlative light and electron microscopy (CLEM) and electron microscopy of cells & tissues. These instruments are:

-A high-pressure freezer to allow rapid freezing of large and/or labile specimens whilst minimizing structural deformation;
-And a freeze-substitution unit for low-temperature substitution of water by dehydrating agents and fixatives;
-A cryo-ultramicrotome, for room-temperature and cryo-sectioning of samples for (cryo-)EM imaging;
-And a cryo-CLEM system, to image cryo-fixed samples by fluorescent microscopy, identifying interesting biological events for further analysis at high-resolution by cryo-EM.

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About the buyer

Address

Purchasing Office
1 - 3 Lifton Villas
Leeds
LS2 9JZ
UK

Telephone

+441133434104

Email

m.a.whitworth@adm.leeds.ac.uk