Purchase of a Materials Testing System
Details
- Supplier(s)
- Instron-Division of ITW Ltd.
- Value
- £73,853
- Topic
- Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)
- Published
- 12 November 2025
Tender description
Materials Testing System Lot 1: A Table Mounted Materials Testing System is designed to test the mechanical properties of materials—like tensile strength, compression strength, flexural behaviour, or hardness. It is used to evaluate how materials behave under different loads. Having the axial and torsional axes coupled in one frame is essential for this research: it eliminates inter-machine variability, avoids alignment and fixturing inconsistencies that would arise from chaining separate instruments, ensures synchronized control and common metrology for traceable results, and preserves the integrity of combined-load failure and characterization tests.
Timeline
- Completed: Award date5 November 2025
- Completed: Award published12 November 2025Current 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
- 38000000 · Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)
Decision makers
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| Contact name | Job title | Phone number | Work email |
|---|---|---|---|
| Head of Procurement | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@university-of-edinburgh.gov | |
| Commercial Director | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@university-of-edinburgh.gov | |
| Procurement Manager | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@university-of-edinburgh.gov | |
| Category Lead | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@university-of-edinburgh.gov | |
| Senior Buyer | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@university-of-edinburgh.gov | |
| Contracts Manager | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@university-of-edinburgh.gov |
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