Expired contract

The Supply of a Liquid Chromatograph-Tandem Mass Spectrometer System(s)

Details

Value
£720,000
Duration
3 months
Topic
Mass spectrometer
Published
19 March 2024

Tender description

As part of the laboratory capital replacement plan, Scottish Water will be looking to purchase an LCMSMS or equivalent type of system(s) for the analysis of the PFAS (Polyfluorinated Alkyl Substances) Total and Steroids to meet the new EU drinking water directive. The instrument will need the ability to analyse the same PFAS and Steroid compounds listed in wastewater samples (final, trade and crude effluents).

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award date11 January 2022
  2. Completed: Contract expiry date10 April 2022
  3. Completed: Award published19 March 2024
    Current notice

About the buyer

BiP Solutions is a private company, founded in 1984 and based in Glasgow, that builds procurement platforms for the public sector. Delta eSourcing, one of its platforms, gives public sector buyers tools for tendering, contracts and eAuctions. Public Contracts Scotland and CompeteFor are among the portals BiP Solutions also operates for public bodies. Notices under BiP Solutions itself cover the company's own purchasing of IT, software and business services. Tracker and Contrax, its business intelligence brands, alert suppliers to new contract opportunities. Training and consultancy work, including the Procurement Advice and Support Service, rounds out its offer to public bodies.

£434bn was the total UK public sector procurement spend in FY 2025/26.

Over the past 5 years, most of BiP Solutions's contract awards have been in IT services, software and information systems and real estate services.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 38433100 · Mass spectrometer

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