Published date: 10 January 2017

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: 25 January 2017

Contract summary

Industry

  • Market research services - 79310000

Location of contract

B15 2TT

Value of contract

£7,000 to £9,000

Procurement reference

SC5344/17

Published date

10 January 2017

Closing date

25 January 2017

Contract start date

1 February 2017

Contract end date

30 June 2017

Contract type

Service 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?

No

Description

We are seeking a report to aid decision making about the potential for commercialisation of FENAC (the Facility for Environmental Nanoscience Analysis and Characterisation, www.birmingham.ac.uk/facilities/fenac).

FENAC is a laboratory based facility, currently funded by NERC (the Natural Environment Research Council) to support research into the biological and environmental impacts of nanomaterials. There is extensive experience within the laboratory, with nanomaterials from suspensions in liquids including in water from lakes, rivers, ground waters, estuaries and seawater, and also in biological culture media and complex physiological fluids and tissues.

FENAC is located at the University of Birmingham within the environmental nanomaterials research laboratory, and there is spare capacity on the characterisation instruments.

A draft report should be presented in electronic form, and verbally in a meeting or by Skype, to allow discussion and clarification of the report. The final Market assessment report and Marketing Strategy Report should be delivered as an electronic version with 3 paper copies. It is expected that the copyright in the report will belong to the University of Birmingham.

The names of the people interviewed and the organisation they work for should be listed in the appendix of the report. A separate list of contact details of all people who expressed an interest in FENAC services should be in the report Appendix.

Based on the expected activity and budget, an indicative range for the total contract value may be taken as £7-9,000, inclusive of VAT. When evaluating cost, the quality of the overall bid and its constituent parts will be taken into consideration alongside the financial values.

The above range is indicative and bids above and below the range are acceptable but bidders should ensure that where above the range, the additional quality offered is well substantiated and that where below the range that you ensure that you detail how you meet the minimum quality standards required.

More information

Links

Additional text

You should respond to this Quotation Request by means of loading your response onto the University's In-Tend e-tendering system by the time and date specified below:

http://in-tendhost.co.uk/universityofbirmingham/aspx/Home

Your electronic response MUST arrive in the above recipient's email in-box no later than:

12 noon on Wednesday 25th January 2017


Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

About the buyer

Contact name

Paul Markham

Address

Edgbaston
Edgbaston
Edgbaston
B15 2TT
United Kingdom

Telephone

0121 415 8807

Email

p.markham@bham.ac.uk