Published date: 23 June 2020

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


Closing: 9 April 2020

Contract summary

Industry

  • Microscopes - 38510000

Location of contract

Yorkshire and the Humber

Value of contract

£60,000

Procurement reference

2502/JS

Published date

23 June 2020

Closing date

9 April 2020

Contract start date

4 May 2020

Contract end date

3 May 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

The University of Sheffield requires a Compound Microscope to form part of the build of a fluorescence microscope for the purpose of imaging proteins or protein aggregates at 'single molecule resolution' in solutions, cells and sectioned tissue (with light sheet imaging in Epi mode) in 3D and which also allows us to perform localisation based super-resolution microscopy (like STORM, DNA-PAINT etc) in 2D in (using total internal reflection mode)

We would like to build this set-up using an inverted motorised microscope body with very high flexibility, equipped with high-numerical aperture objective (to study at high resolution), an auto-focus system (allows long time experiment without any drift) and an automated stage (to image image multiple regions of the samples).

To compliment the Compound Microscope multiple lasers (4 different colours) and a highly sensitive camera will be purchased separately and added by the University.

In the near future we will add new optical modules in such a way that we can do label free imaging of single proteins.


This is an non-EU open exercise.

The ITT can be downloaded by registering and expressing your interest on the University`s e-tendering system https://intendhost.co.uk/Sheffield.

If you have any questions or comments in relation to this tender they must be submitted via the In-tend System, this can be accessed at https://intendhost.co.uk/Sheffield.

Completed tenders must be returned through the same e-tendering system.

Closing date for receipt of tenders: Thursday 9th April 2020 at 12 noon (UK time).

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

Compound Microscope

  • Opportunity
  • Published 23 March 2020

Links

Additional text

All tender documents are available at:

https://intendhost.co.uk/Sheffield

Award information

Awarded date

18 June 2020

Contract start date

1 September 2020

Contract end date

31 August 2022

Total value of contract

£60,000

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

NIKON UK LIMITED

Address

NIKON HOUSE, 380 RICHMOND ROAD, HAM
KT2 5PR
GB

Reference

Companies House number: 01448987

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Jamie Shaw

Address

Western Bank
SHEFFIELD
S102TN
England

Email

jamie.shaw@sheffield.ac.uk