Published date: 20 December 2023

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


Closing: 25 October 2023, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

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

Location of contract

East of England

Value of contract

£100,000 to £150,000

Procurement reference

CF-0188900D8d000003VQwdEAG

Published date

20 December 2023

Closing date

25 October 2023

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

15 November 2023

Contract end date

31 March 2024

Contract type

Supply contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (above threshold)

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

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The supplier will provide Cefas with a gamma detector and associated equipment to support continued capacity building and innovation of laboratories across a number of programmes and research. The equipment is vital for (i) maintaining a robust delivery of high-quality analytical results to the Food Standards Agency, (ii) optimising our support to an increasing demand related to Blue Carbon (BC) research, and (iii) providing spare capacity to fulfil our obligation to maintain an emergency radiological/nuclear incident response capability for a number of government and other organisations.

• High purity Germanium (HpGe) gamma detector to cover the spectrum from 30 keV to 2000 keV, minimum 50% relative efficiency with low-background carbon fiber endcap.
• Low noise configuration for the measurement of low activity samples in particular Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials (NORM) including Pb-210 and Ra-226 and zero background for Pb-210@46.5 keV.
• Mounting (low-background dipstick cryostat configuration) must be compatible with supplied one (1) condensing liquid nitrogen cooling system and supplied one (1) ultra-low background lead shield.
• System must be compatible with existing hardware and software (currently running Ortec GammaVision analytical software and Ortec DSPEC analysers).

More information

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Award information

Awarded date

15 November 2023

Contract start date

15 November 2023

Contract end date

31 March 2024

Total value of contract

£85,892

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Mirion Technologies (Canberra UK) Ltd

Address

Unit 2, Zephyr Building, Eighth Street, Harwell Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0RL

Reference

None

About the buyer

Contact name

Holly Power

Address

Pakefield Road
Lowestoft
NR33 0HT
UK

Email

procure@cefas.gov.uk