Awarded contract

UPS Systems for Advanced Mass Spectrometers

Details

Supplier(s)
Focus Power Solutions Ltd
Value
£85,888.3
Topic
Uninterruptible power supplies
Published
24 January 2024

Tender description

The University of Warwick has a requirement to purchase uninterrupted power supply systems for 10 advanced mass spectrometers. The University of Warwick seeks to run an open competition.In order to express interest in this opportunity please go to the University of Warwick In-Tend supplier portal (https://in-tendhost.co.uk/universityofwarwick).The University of Warwick is not a contracting authority for the purposes of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended) and its procurement activities are not subject to the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 or the obligations under the European Public Procurement Directives, including the European Remedies Directive. Advertisement of any contract in the Official Journal of the European Union or Contracts Finder is at the sole discretion of the University and is undertaken on a voluntary basis with no implied obligation to comply with the procurement legislation. Lot 1: The performances of mass spectrometers are heavily dependent on lab environment, including the stability of the temperature control, vacuum, and power supply. Mass spectrometers are normally equipped with rough pump and molecular turbo pumps to achieve high vacuum conditions, the ionisation, ion transfer and detection of ions (sensitivity) are directly controlled by multiple high voltage power supply units, mass accuracy and resolution of mass spectrometer are also directly affected by temperature control. Any unexpected power outage, sometimes even only last for a split of second, can potentially cause severe damage to the vacuum system. The stability of power supply to advanced mass spectrometers are also essential to achieve expected performance on these instruments. Therefore, uninterrupted power supply systems are critical for the current and future success to our advanced mass spectrometry facility, which in turn will determine our research outcome.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award date21 September 2023
  2. Completed: Award published24 January 2024
    Current notice

About the buyer

University of Warwick is a higher education body that buys mainly through Procurement Services in the Finance Office. Tenders are advertised regularly on the In-Tend portal, and larger contracts also appear on Find a Tender. Suppliers become approved through the university's own tenders or via consortium and national frameworks across the sector. Specialist frameworks such as NERARS cover categories like advertising and media buying. Day-to-day orders run through OPeRA, the university's own e-procurement system. Procurement Services reports into a Deputy Finance Director. Approved suppliers must meet Stage 1 SSIP safety standards. A supplier code of conduct applies to every contract signed.

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

Over the past 5 years, most of University of Warwick's contract awards have been in laboratory and precision equipment.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 31154000 · Uninterruptible power supplies
  • 38000000 · Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)

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