Expired contract

3943/JN/23 - Fluorescence Lifetime (FLIM) and Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) Upgrade to Confocal Microscope

Details

Value
£174,987
Topic
Microscopes
Published
11 December 2023

Tender description

The Wolfson Light Microscopy Facility (LMF) at the University of Sheffield is a multiuser core facility that houses a wide range of confocal, widefield and light-sheet systems serving the needs of biomedical and biological scientists in the Faculties of Science, and Medicine, Dentistry and Health. This tender is for the supply, installation and commissioning of a fluorescence lifetime (FLIM) and fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) upgrade kit that will be installed on a Zeiss LSM980 confocal microscope. This is an open exercise. The ITT can be downloaded by registering and expressing your interest on the University`s e-tendering system https://intendhost.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://intendhost.co.uk/sheffield Completed tenders must be returned through the same e-tendering system.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award published11 December 2023
    Current notice
  2. Completed: Award date28 March 2024
  3. Completed: Contract expiry date29 March 2024

About the buyer

University of Sheffield is a higher education institution whose Procurement Office lets and manages contracts for its schools and departments. Tenders are run through the In-Tend portal, and where required on the Central Digital Platform. The university also buys through regional and national frameworks as a member of the North Eastern Universities Purchasing Consortium, part of UKUPC. They cover catering, furniture, computing, laboratory supplies, postal services, domestic services, professional services and stationery. Once a contract is let, each school and department must buy from the contracted supplier. Lower-value purchases are handled by departments through quotation exercises.

Education procurement reached £47.4bn in 2024/25, the fourth-largest public sector budget.

Over the past 5 years, most of University of Sheffield's contract awards have been in construction work, industrial machinery and laboratory and precision equipment.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 38510000 · Microscopes

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