Published date: 3 December 2018

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: 3 January 2019

Contract summary

Industry

  • Installation services of laboratory equipment - 51430000

Location of contract

KT15 3NB

Value of contract

£12,000

Procurement reference

tender_176504/730006

Published date

3 December 2018

Closing date

3 January 2019

Contract start date

22 January 2019

Contract end date

29 March 2019

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, delivery and installation of an imaging platform for use within the Virology Department . The contractor will also be required to deliver training to three (3) users.
The Equipment will meet the following requirements:-
External Dimensions
- The imaging platform shall have a depth no greater than 600 mm, a height no greater than 900 mm and a width no greater than 600 mm.
General:
- Be designed specifically for viewing, analysing and documenting agarose, protein and western blotting gels.
- Be compatible with general 240v UK electricity supply. Supplier must specify if their equipment will be delivered with a 13amp UK 3 pin plug.
- It needs to be equipped with:

i. high resolution e.g. cooled charge-coupled display (CCD) camera with high sensitivity and reduced background noise for Chemiluminescence imaging

ii. UV and/or LED based imagin platform for visualising dyes like SYBR Safe and Gel Red during nucleic acid detection (PCR)

iii. white light imaging or equivalent (not essential) to capture colorimetric stained protein gels (Coomassie blue/silver stain)

iv. Analysis software that can run on Windows 7 and 10 for quantifying the signal intensities.

- The potential to upgrade the platform to analyse multiple fluorescence probe-labelled images may be a future consideration. This option is desirable but not essential and will NOT be evaluated, therefore should be priced separately, if applicable.

About the buyer

Address

Unext House
Peterborough
PE1 1NG
England

Email

Gemma.Burke@defra.gov.uk