Published date: 10 December 2020

Last edited date: 10 December 2020

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


Closing: 1 October 2020, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Mass spectrometer - 38433100

Location of contract

tw9 3ae

Value of contract

£233,000

Procurement reference

RBGKEW/868 DART-HRMS

Published date

10 December 2020

Closing date

1 October 2020

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

23 November 2020

Contract end date

31 March 2026

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?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No


Description

A solution to enable the recording of high-resolution mass spectrum (MS) 'fingerprints' directly from fragments of wood. These MS fingerprints will support the identification of the species from which the wood was obtained to assist the enforcement of EU/UK timber regulations. This work will be done as part of a consortium of laboratories who are members of the WorldForestID programme. To be effective for this purpose, the MS fingerprints recorded at Kew must be comparable with an existing database (ForeST) of over 16,000 wood MS fingerprints that the consortium will use and which was compiled using the ambient ionisation technique of Direct Analysis in Real Time (DART®) in combination with a JEOL 'AccuTOF' high-resolution mass spectrometer (HRMS).


Award information

Awarded date

18 November 2020

Contract start date

23 November 2020

Contract end date

31 March 2026

Total value of contract

£233,000

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

JEOL(U.K.)LIMITED

Address

Watchmead
AL7 1LT
GB

Reference

Companies House number: 00939456

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

Additional details

Contact length includes 5 years of servicing and warranty.


About the buyer

Address

Kew Green
RICHMOND
TW93AB
England

Email

procurement@kew.org