Published date: 31 January 2022

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


Closing: 14 January 2022, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Mass spectrometer - 38433100

Location of contract

East of England

Value of contract

£250,000

Procurement reference

tender_294489/1037680

Published date

31 January 2022

Closing date

14 January 2022

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

1 April 2022

Contract end date

30 March 2023

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?

Yes

Description

Gas chromatograph - high resolution accurate mass spectrometric system (GC-HRMS) to maintain and enhance Cefas' capability for specialist environmental contaminants determination at trace and ultra-trace level in the marine environment. Critically, this enhanced capability will principally enable the targeted analysis of known hazardous substances (such as PCBs, PAHs, PBDE flame retardants, pesticides, etc...), and enable the screening of suspect and non-target chemicals of emerging concern (CECs), including characterisation of unknown substances with maximum confidence. Typical sample matrices analysed include sediments, biota (such as fish, shellfish or aquatic mammals), passive samplers or oils.

In addition, the system proposed should include an integrated option for fully comprehensive GC x GC capability to enable enhanced separation of complex mixtures originating from challenging applications and matrices. These might include sample extracts from biotic materials (e.g. livers) or fingerprinting of oil hydrocarbons (from ca C8-C10 and above) including high molecular weight biomarkers for new marker discovery and forensic application in oil spill incidents. For some applications, it is expected that quantification of substances separated by GC x GC might be required.

Award information

Awarded date

31 January 2022

Contract start date

1 April 2022

Contract end date

30 March 2023

Total value of contract

£280,000

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

LECO Instruments UK

Address

Unit 7 Rhino Court, Stockport, Cheshire, SK7 5ER

Reference

No reference - other

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Address

Pakefield Road
Lowestoft
NR33 0HT
England

Email

procure@cefas.co.uk

Website

www.cefas.co.uk