Published date: 7 August 2020

This notice was replaced on 29 October 2020

This notice does not contain the most up-to-date information about this procurement. The most recent notice is:

Awarded contract (published 29 October 2020)

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Contract summary

Industry

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

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

tender_246171/878217

Published date

7 August 2020

Closing date

31 August 2020

Closing time

11:59pm

Contract start date

30 October 2020

Contract end date

29 October 2025

Contract type

Supply contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (below threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

This procedure can be used for procurements below the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

APHA requires the supply and delivery of one (1) chest style cryogenic mechanical ultra-low temperature (-150 oC) freezer to replace an existing liquid nitrogen based cryo-store.

The Equipment requirements are detailed below:

- Must be a chest style design.

- Must have an internal storage capacity of between two hundred and thirty (230) L and two hundred and fifty (250) L.

- Spares for the Equipment must be available for purchase for at least ten (10) years post-delivery.

- Must be capable of maintaining an operating temperature of minus one hundred and fifty (-150°C) maximum with an accuracy of plus or minus ten (10) °C.

- Must be supplied with a minimum of 120 cryogenic boxes (size 13.3 cm x 13.3 cm x 5.2 cm) and sufficient racks to accommodate the boxes.

- The racks and the corresponding cryogenic boxes must be compatible with the Equipment.

- Must operate on UK mains power, using a standard 240 volt, 13 amp UK three pin plug.

- Must contain a digital control / display panel showing current operating temperature.

- Must contain upper and lower temperature limit alarms.

- Must contain entry port for the insertion of a temperature monitoring probe wire.

- Must be compliant with current EU / UK safety standards for electrical equipment.

- Must be compliant with current EU / UK standards for refrigerant gases.

- Must have caster wheels which must lock once the Equipment is in final position.

- Must have user adjustable temperature and alarms.

- Must not exceed eight-hundred and ninety (890mm) deep as the Equipment is required to fit through a door which is nine hundred (900) mm wide x one-thousand, eight hundred and eighty (1880) mm high.

- Must be able to be locked.

Delivery, including removal of all packing materials, is required on or before Friday 30th October 2020.

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About the buyer

Contact name

Defra Group Commercial

Address

17 Nobel House
London
SW1P 3JR
England

Email

Network.Procurement@defra.gov.uk