Stale Pre-tender

Combined CT Scanner and Gantry System

Details

Value
£1,700,000
Topic
CT scanners
Published
12 November 2025

Tender description

The University require the purchase and installation of a Combined CT Scanner and gantry system to facilitate multi-area imaging in standing and anaesthetised horses with capability to image small animals. This scanner will be installed at the Equine, Surgical and Critical Care Unit (EDSCCU) building, Easter Bush Campus, Edinburgh by June 2027. The University require a lease to buy or payment plan over the next 5-10 years. This PIN is to inform the market of the University's intention to purchase this system and to gauge market interest and capability. To register your interest please: - Record you interest on PCS - Email jcouper@ed.ac.uk with an initial proposal of how you can meet all of the requirements (in attachment), including indicative costs/payment plan, brochures and an example of installing a similar system within the past 5 years. Deadline: 17 December 2025 Lot 1: The University require the purchase and installation of a Combined CT Scanner and gantry system to facilitate multi-area imaging in standing and anaesthetised horses with capability to image small animals. This scanner will be installed at the Equine, Surgical and Critical Care Unit (EDSCCU) building, Easter Bush Campus, Edinburgh by June 2027. The University require a lease to buy or payment plan over the next 5-10 years. This PIN is to inform the market of the University's intention to purchase this system and to gauge market interest and capability. To register your interest please: - Record you interest on PCS - Email jcouper@ed.ac.uk with an initial proposal of how you can meet all of the requirements (in attachment), including indicative costs/payment plan, brochures and an example of installing a similar system within the past 5 years. Deadline: 17 December 2025

Timeline

  1. Completed: Pre-tender published12 November 2025
    Current notice

About the buyer

University of Edinburgh buys as a higher education institution, through its own Procurement function. Larger tenders are advertised on Public Contract Scotland, via the PCS-T e-tendering platform. Suppliers must register separately on both systems before bidding. Much of this procurement flows through framework agreements with APUC, Scotland Excel and the Crown Commercial Service. Prior information notices invite market engagement from suppliers ahead of larger tenders. The Strategic Procurement team leads regulated sourcing, while Operational Procurement manages day-to-day purchase orders. A Procurement Support team handles reporting, data analysis and training across the function.

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

Over the past 5 years, most of University of Edinburgh's contract awards have been in laboratory and precision equipment, medical equipment and pharmaceuticals and software and information systems.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 33115100 · CT scanners

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