Published date: 5 December 2022

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 31 August 2022, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Electron microscopes - 38511000

Location of contract

OX10 8BB

Value of contract

£644,674.65

Procurement reference

PL337-22

Published date

5 December 2022

Closing date

31 August 2022

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

9 September 2022

Contract end date

10 May 2024

Contract type

Supply contract

Procedure type

Single tender action (below threshold)

A direct contract with a single supplier, without competition.

This procedure can be used for procurements below the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Sigma 300 VP Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope with integrated WiTec RISE Confocal Raman Microscope and Oxford Instruments UltimMax 40 EDS Detector & 12 months warranty.

RISE-EDS (Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope) is the world's first laboratory-based equipment for multimodal correlative microscopy and spectroscopy. It is a full integration of a (i) WITec 3D confocal Raman microscope into a (ii) ZEISS field emission Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) that is enabled with a (iii) ZEISS Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDS) detector, as one analytical suite.

Based on the below factors there are currently only one supplier in the market that can supply the RISE-EDS equipment and meet all our requirements;

Carl Zeiss Ltd is the only supplier that can provide this unique technology; a fully correlated imaging solution that incorporates light microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy and confocal Raman mapping.

Carl Zeiss Ltd owns the patent for the ZEN Connect correlative software and the ZEN Intellesis software for machine learning-based segmentation of image data. These are the only commercial correlative and segmentation tools and are only available from Carl Zeiss Ltd.

Award information

Awarded date

4 October 2022

Contract start date

9 September 2022

Contract end date

10 May 2024

Total value of contract

£644,674.65

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

CARL ZEISS LTD

Address

509-511 Coldhams Lane
CB1 3JS
GB

Reference

Companies House number: 00542141

Value of contract

£644,674.65

Supplier is SME?

Yes

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Dewan Ferreira

Address

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Maclean Building, Benson Lane
Wallingford
OX10 8BB
England

Email

dewfer@ceh.ac.uk

Website

www.ceh.ac.uk