Published date: 5 February 2019

This notice was replaced on 26 February 2019

This notice does not contain the most up-to-date information about this procurement. The most recent notice is:

Awarded contract (published 26 February 2019)

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Image-processing software package - 48328000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£18,000

Procurement reference

tender_199387/744595

Published date

5 February 2019

Closing date

18 February 2019

Contract start date

25 February 2019

Contract end date

24 February 2022

Contract type

Supply contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (below threshold)

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

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

Public Health England (PHE) requires the provision of image acquisition software for use with microscopes located in its Centre for Radiation Chemical & Environmental Hazards (CRCE) radiation biology research laboratories. Due to the nature of the work, the software must be able to fulfil the following requirements:

- Installed as a stand-alone system
- Options for colour karyotyping, multicolour FISH (mFISH) and comparative genomic hybridization (CGH)
- Acquire fluorescence images with up to 12 colour channels
- Automatic exposure time adjustment
- Automatic image enhancement tools
- Image processing function - able to enhance, edit, annotate, measure, print and archive images
- Integrated focus stack function to analyse 3D objects
- Ability to remove unspecific background
- Multiple customizable colour display modes (RGB, individual colours, modified colours, merged colours, grey scale, inverted grey scale, combinatorial false colours)

If you feel that you have a solution which can meet the requirements outlined above, please contact Anna Gibson anna.gibson@phe.gov.uk and Kallie Rivers kallie.rivers@phe.gov.uk with details of your proposed solution or to access the tender documents through: https://phe.bravosolution.co.uk by no later than 25th February 2019.

More information

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About the buyer

Address

61 Colindale Avenue
London
NW9 5EQ
England

Email

kallie.rivers@phe.gov.uk