Published date: 25 January 2018

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: 16 February 2018

Contract summary

Industry

  • Instruments for checking physical characteristics - 38400000

  • Miscellaneous evaluation or testing instruments - 38900000

Location of contract

SO17 1BJ

Value of contract

£40,000 to £60,000

Procurement reference

17/ PSC /133

Published date

25 January 2018

Closing date

16 February 2018

Contract start date

12 March 2018

Contract end date

25 January 2019

Contract type

Supply contract

Procedure type

Other

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The Zepler Institute (ZI) is a multidisciplinary research centre that brings together the University's expertise in photonics, quantum technologies and nanoscience.
The ZI has two main roles firstly, to increase the diversity and extent of cross-disciplinary research and the related funding, and secondly, to develop and manage the clean rooms.
The Zepler Institute (ZI), University of Southampton has secured funds to purchase a resist processing station for use in state of the art nanofabrication research.

A new resist processing station is required to be installed in the nanofabrication cleanroom located in:
University of Southampton,
Highfield,
Southampton,
SO17 1BJ.

It is intended for use by a variety of users, ranging from inexperienced PhD students to experienced process engineers so must be of sufficient design to include necessary safeguards, either hardware or software, to prevent inadvertent damage to the tool.

More information

Links

Additional text

This tender will be conducted electronically and tender documents can be downloaded from the web portal (In-Tend) 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.

Once you have logged in as a supplier, click on current tenders and locate the tender documents by clicking on the reference number detailed in section IV.3.1 of this notice. 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).

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You are only permitted to submit once.

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

Due to the nature of this service it was not deemed suitable to be split into lots.

In accordance with Regulation 50, paragraph (2) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and subject to Article 5 and Annex 5, Part D (13) of Directive 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council, the University intend to publish the contract value at contract award stage, and reserved the right to do so. By submitting a tender response tenderers are consenting to publication of this information unless otherwise agreed in advance with the University.




Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

About the buyer

Contact name

Sam Rix

Address

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SO17 1BJ
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Telephone

+44 (0)23 8059 1797

Email

s.rix@soton.ac.uk