Published date: 17 April 2015

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: 11 May 2015

Contract summary

Industry

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

  • Detection and analysis apparatus - 38430000

  • Checking and testing apparatus - 38500000

    • Diffraction apparatus - 38530000

Location of contract

S1 3JD

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

197/YE

Published date

17 April 2015

Closing date

11 May 2015

Contract start date

11 May 2015

Contract end date

17 August 2015

Contract type

Supply 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

The University of Sheffield is out to tender on behalf of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering for an X-ray diffractometer and high temperature stage.

The closing date for return of tenders is Monday 11th May 2015 at 12 noon (UK time).

We require a high performance diffractometer capable of rapid data collection from the wide diversity of materials studied by TUoS researchers - both small bulk pieces (pellets, off-cuts etc) and powdered specimens of ceramics, cements and refractories, metals and glasses.

Though not the only focus, a particular focus of this machine will be on running radioactive specimens, and so the tender must include specimen holders that (i) are easy to fully clean, and (ii) can be sealed within e.g. a glove box. Additionally we require the capability to undertake (i) high temperature studies up to ca. 1200 oC for in-situ diffraction studies of phase transformations, structure determination, and in situ reactions; (ii) grazing angle diffraction studies of solid samples to achieve surface sensitivity, by control of incident angle.

The full technical specification can be found in the tender documentation which will be sent to you once you have expressed your interest.

This is an open tender exercise. The ITT can be downloaded by registering and expressing your interest on the University`s e-tendering system https://www.in-tendhost.co.uk/Sheffield

More information

Links

Additional text

All expressions of interest must be via the University of Sheffield e-tendering portal:
https://www.in-tendhost.co.uk/Sheffield

This is an open tender exercise. The ITT can be downloaded by registering and expressing your interest on the University`s e-tendering system https://www.in-tendhost.co.uk/Sheffield

If you have any questions or comments in relation to this tender they must be submitted via the In-tend System, this can be accessed at https://www.in-tendhost.co.uk/Sheffield

Completed tenders must be returned through the same e-tendering system.


Closing date for receipt of tenders: Monday 11th May 2015 at 12 noon (UK time).


Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No https://in-tendhost.co.uk/sheffield/aspx/

About the buyer

Contact name

Yvette Everitt

Address

Sir Robert Hadfield Building
Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 3JD
United Kingdom

Telephone

https://www.in-tendhost.co.uk/sh

Email

procurement@sheffield.ac.uk