Published date: 6 February 2025

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 18 November 2024, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Microscopes - 38510000

Location of contract

Yorkshire and the Humber

Value of contract

£124,936

Procurement reference

4300/JN/24

Published date

6 February 2025

Closing date

18 November 2024

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

23 January 2025

Contract end date

24 January 2025

Contract type

Supply contract

Procedure type

Call-off from a framework agreement

A mini-competition or direct purchase from a pre-established framework agreement.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes


Description

Process conducted via mini-competition under NWUPC framework LAB3162 NW for High Value Laboratory Equipment Lot 2.

The University of Sheffield's School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences with funding from EPSRC are looking to procure an Atomic Force Microscope. The instrument will be used for the characterisation of a wide range of materials including organic thin films and monolayers, molecular materials and molecular adsorbates on inorganic surfaces, metals, dielectrics, polymers and biological materials. It will be used to characterise the topographical properties of surfaces in contact and intermittent contact mode, lateral forces, the nanomechanical properties of materials and interfaces, and the magnitude of interaction forces between various kinds of probes and the aforementioned materials.


Award information

Awarded date

20 January 2025

Contract start date

23 January 2025

Contract end date

24 January 2025

Total value of contract

£124,936

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Bruker UK Ltd

Address

Welland House
Longwood Close
Westwood Business Park
Coventry
CV4 8HZ

Reference

Companies House number: 00923986

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No


About the buyer

Contact name

James Noble

Address

WESTERN BANK
SHEFFIELD
S102TN
England

Email

james.noble@sheffield.ac.uk