Published date: 24 January 2023

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


Closing: 21 October 2022, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

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

  • Measuring instruments - 38300000

  • Instruments for measuring quantities - 38340000

    • Measuring and control equipment - 38424000

    • Machines and apparatus for testing and measuring - 38540000

    • Airborne particle monitoring - 90731800

Location of contract

CV4 8UW

Value of contract

£150,000 to £170,000

Procurement reference

IT-25-2849-CJ-09-22-RTP-AEF-MASSPHOTO-CS - AWARD

Published date

24 January 2023

Closing date

21 October 2022

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

8 November 2022

Contract end date

8 November 2023

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?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes


Description

The University of Warwick has a requirement to purchase a mass photometer instrument for the Advanced Bioimaging Research Technology Platform (RTP). The Advanced Bioimaging RTP helps researchers answer their scientific questions using state-of-the-art 3D electron microscopy and light microscopy imaging equipment. Our strategy is to offer this advanced bioimaging capability and the expertise to deliver high impact results to researchers both at Warwick and beyond. The Advanced Bioimaging RTP provides the training and expertise required to operate the equipment as well as providing a service to users. Due to successful funding from BBSRC, Alert14 and more recently the founding of the Midlands Regional CryoEM Consortium (established 2017 through £4.9M funding from MRC and partner universities Warwick, Leicester, Birmingham and Nottingham), we have one high-end microscope (Jeol 2200 FEG-TEM with internal energy filter) and a state-of-the-art camera (Gatan K2 Summit Direct electron detector), a Jeol 2100plus cryo-transmission electron microscope suitable for cellular specimens, sample characterisation and user training, and access to a FEI Titan Krios transmission electron microscope for state-of-the-art high resolution structure determination work.

In order to support characterisation of challenging samples for structural biology using cryo-electron microscopy we seek a mass photometer instrument that will enable us to measure particle size distributions in complex protein samples.

The Advanced Bioimaging RTP is service-oriented, and has users from multiple disciplines (Life sciences, chemistry, physics and engineering), therefore ease of use and reliable performance are essential.

In order to express interest in this opportunity please go to the University of Warwick In-Tend supplier portal (https://in-tendhost.co.uk/universityofwarwick).

The University of Warwick is not a contracting authority for the purposes of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended) and its procurement activities are not subject to the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 or the obligations under the European Public Procurement Directives, including the European Remedies Directive. Advertisement of any contract in the Official Journal of the European Union or Contracts Finder is at the sole discretion of the University and is undertaken on a voluntary basis with no implied obligation to comply with the procurement legislation.


Award information

Awarded date

14 November 2022

Contract start date

8 November 2022

Contract end date

8 November 2023

Total value of contract

£169,895

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Refeyn

Address

Refeyn Ltd, Unit 6, Trade City Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, OX4 6FF

Reference

None


About the buyer

Contact name

Carl Johnson

Address

Gibbet Hill campus
Coventry
West Midlands
CV4 8UW
United Kingdom

Telephone

02476150984

Email

carl.johnson.1@warwick.ac.uk