Published date: 17 March 2016

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: 21 March 2016

Contract summary

Industry

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

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£60,000

Procurement reference

BSP 2748

Published date

17 March 2016

Closing date

21 March 2016

Contract start date

22 March 2016

Contract end date

31 March 2016

Contract type

Supply contract

Procedure type

Not specified

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Enable MALDI experiments to be conducting on our existing system Q Exactive Plus Mass spectrometer.

We believe there is a sole supplier(R Analytical Ltd. is the manufacturer that supplies a compatible system.) who can provide such item, therefore, we are using this portal to confirm the same.

What the MALDI does is offers is the opportunity to observe the location of any induced changes to tissue biomarkers that would be lost using traditional methods. This will be very useful for current exposure studies using carbon nanotubes. Over the past year or so we have employed laser ablation-ICPMS for determining the tissue distribution of metal containing nanomaterials which has proven to be extremely useful. However, such an approach for carbon nanomaterials is less/not effective because of the high carbon content of tissues and because ICPMS is an elemental analysis technique. MALDI-HRMS however will allow similar mapping of distributions to be undertaken because it is a soft ionisation technique leaving the nanomaterials intact and as such can be targeted based upon their mass to charge ratio

About the buyer

Contact name

Sandeep Kapoor

Address

61 Colindale Avenue,
Colindale,
London
NW9 5EQ
England

Telephone

0208 327 7824

Email

sandeep.kapoor@phe.gov.uk

Website

https://phe.bravosolution.co.uk/esop/guest/go/opportunity/detail?opportunityId=27793