Published date: 28 February 2023

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Spectrometers - 38433000

Location of contract

England

Value of contract

£45,000

Procurement reference

NCL001-DN656109-21526405

Published date

28 February 2023

Closing date

2 March 2023

Closing time

11:59pm

Contract start date

10 March 2023

Contract end date

31 March 2023

Contract type

Supply contract

Procedure type

Not applicable

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The University currently owns and operates two Thermo Fisher Scientific X-ray Photoelectron Spectrometers: K-Alpha and Theta Probe.

These two instruments currently run on pre-Windows 10 computers, having not been upgraded since purchase. For each instrument we require:

i) Data system upgrade
ii) USB3 Camera upgrade

The system upgrade must be compatible with the existing instruments' features:
K-Alpha:
• 180° hemispherical analyser
• 128-channel detector
• scanned and snapshot spectroscopy modes
• dual-beam charge neutralisation
• monoatomic Ar ion and Polyatomic Gas-Cluster Ion Beam (GCIB) source
• cluster sizes of 1000 and 2000 atoms
• depth profiling of metals and oxides as well as polymers and multi-layers

Theta Probe:
• 180° spherical sector analyser
• 60° Parallel ARXPS (no need to tilt the sample)
• scanned and snapshot spectroscopy modes
• dual-beam charge neutralisation
• monoatomic Ar ion and Polyatomic Gas-Cluster Ion Beam (GCIB) source
• cluster sizes of 1000 and 2000 atoms
• depth profiling of metals and oxides as well as polymers and multi-layers
• possibility to be linked with Raman spectrometer, for in situ measurements of XPS with Raman

This purchase is being funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)

Please review the available documentation and provide a fully detailed response to our requirements.

More information

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About the buyer

Contact name

Dave Anderson

Address

Newcastle University
Procurement Services, Kingsgate
Newcastle
NE1 7RU
England

Telephone

+44 1912085360

Email

dave.anderson@ncl.ac.uk

Website

https://www.ncl.ac.uk