Published date: 24 June 2015

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 23 July 2015

Contract summary

Industry

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

  • Instruments for measuring quantities - 38340000

  • Oscilloscopes - 38342000

Location of contract

SO17 1BJ

Value of contract

£150,000 to £600,000

Procurement reference

N15/ESM/62

Published date

24 June 2015

Closing date

23 July 2015

Contract start date

14 August 2015

Contract end date

13 August 2018

Contract type

Supply contract

Procedure type

Open procedure

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The University has a procurement opportunity for the supply of Oscilloscopes for one of its department.

The University of Southampton (University) is interested in acquiring 120 Mixed Signal Oscilloscopes (instrument) to enhance the capability and capacity of the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Teaching Laboratory within the Faculty of Physical Sciences and Engineering. The laboratory is based within the school of Electronics and Computer Science, which is currently ranked number 1 in the UK for its Electrical and Electronic Engineering undergraduate programme. We seek to procure a modern and fast instrument with extensive capability, which will help to maintain our reputation as the UK leader. The University may also wish to take out an option to purchase up to a further 80 units to be delivered on an as and when required basis, these may be ordered in bulk or single units.


Under no circumstances whatsoever will the University of Southampton be liable for or pay any expenses or costs which may be incurred (whether directly or indirectly) by the tenderer in the preparation or submission of their tender proposal.

The University of Southampton is not bound to accept the lowest offer or any tender in full or in part.

In evaluating the tender, the University will seek the most economically advantageous offers in terms of the criteria listed below:

Description Weighting
Price 25%
Technical Suitability and evaluation 50%
Service Level Support 15%
Maintenance 10%

Full details, including sub-criteria, is available within the invitation to tender documentation.

This tender will be conducted electronically and tender documents can be downloaded from the web portal (Intend) provided earlier in this notice. https://in-tendhost.co.uk/universityofsouthampton.

Expressions of Interest must be by way of completion and return of the Invitation to Tender document via the University`s e-tendering system Intend by the date/time specified in IV.3.4.

Request for clarifications can only be requested until 12:00 on 08 July2015 via the In-Tend portal correspondence facility.

All responses must be uploaded onto this portal by no later than 12:00 Noon on 23 July 2015. Failure to upload your response by this time may result in your exclusion from the tender process. If you are experiencing any technical difficulties when uploading on to the system, please ring +44 23 8059 2654 Before the 12:00 deadline for investigation, calls received after this time will not be considered.

More information

Links

Additional text

This tender will be conducted electronically and tender documents can be downloaded from the web portal (Intend) provided earlier in this notice. https://in-tendhost.co.uk/universityofsouthampton.

If you are not already registered as a supplier with the In-tend Portal, you will need to register before accessing the tender documents. if you are not an existing supplier to the University, please complete and upload the Health and Safety New Supplier documentation which is attached to the stage along with the tender document.

Once you have logged in as a supplier, click on current tenders and locate the tender documents by clicking on 14/xx/xxxx. Further instructions for the submission of tender are below. (Please note, to preserve the integrity of the tendering procedure, all queries must made be via In-Tend).

To submit your return, please follow the instructions below:

1. Log In
2. My Tenders
3. View Tender Details
4. View Documents
5. Browse and Upload each part of your return (or Zip File)
6. Once ALL your response documents are uploaded and displayed in the - My Documents for Return - use - Submit My Return -. You are only permitted to submit once.



Delivery Notes

Value range is to allow for additional periods of maintenance/warranty and the option to purchase further equipment outside of the initial purchase volume as detailed in the tender documentation.

Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No https://in-tendhost.co.uk/universityofsouthampton/aspx/

About the buyer

Contact name

Inez Scudder

Address

University of Southampton
Southampton
Hampshire
SO17 1BJ
United Kingdom

Telephone

+44 2380594565

Email

is3@soton.ac.uk