Awarded contract

T24/0084 - Environmental SEM

Details

Value
£220,820
Duration
2 years
Topic
Scanning electron microscopes
Published
24 July 2025

Tender description

Northumbria University specified a requirement for a versatile, high-resolution environmental scanning electron microscope (eSEM), capable of generating and collecting information from a variety of biological or biohybrid sample materials. The purchase will include installation, training and 2-year Service and Maintenance contract. The delivery must commence in September 2025. The eSEM must be capable to operate in high, low and environmental mode with a wide pressure range (up to 4000 Pa). It needs to deliver high-resolution imaging and perform energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS), featuring a Field Emission Gun (FEG) column. This instrument will be used for soft and biological materials, such as biopolymers, composites, and biological cells, accommodating a wide range of biological sample sizes.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award published24 July 2025
    Current notice
  2. Completed: Award date1 September 2025
  3. Next: Contract expiry date31 August 2027in 10 months

About the buyer

Northumbria University Newcastle buys as a higher education institution, with a central procurement team overseeing all purchasing across the university. Northumbria is one of the 16 member institutions in that consortium. Larger purchases of goods, works and services go through a formal electronic tendering process. Procurement staff vet and approve every new supplier, and develop pre-negotiated contracts and monitor spend against them.

Over the past 5 years, most of Northumbria University Newcastle's contract awards have been in laboratory and precision equipment, business services and communications equipment.

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