Awarded contract

Upgrades to VS200 Side Scanning Microscope System

Details

Buyer: Scottish Government
Supplier(s): Evident Europe GmbH
Value: £47,839.61
Topic: Microscopes
Published: 11 February 2025
Source: uk:public_contracts_scotland

Tender description

The Scottish Ministers invites tenders for the upgrade of a VS200 Slide Scanning Microscope System. Lot 1: The Scottish Ministers invites tenders for the upgrade of a VS200 Slide Scanning Microscope System. The Olympus VS200 research slide scanner is a versatile imaging platform capable of performing high-resolution digitization and analysis of microscopy slides. The instrument currently has two areas where we are seeking an upgrade to:- i) it is optimised for brightfield microscopy only. An upgrade to include fluorescence microscopy is required to expand capability for advanced analysis. ii) The microscope already has a 60x oil-immersion lens, but to use it requires addition of an automatic oil dispenser to ensure consistent and precise application of immersion oil. We are currently limited to using a 40x air objective lens. Ability to use the 60x oil-immersion lens will greatly improve the available resolution of scans for analysis and diagnosis.

Timeline

Completed: Award date29 January 2025
Completed: Award published11 February 2025
Current notice

About the buyer

The Scottish Government is a devolved central government department that buys through its Scottish Procurement and Property Directorate. Regulated procurements across the Scottish public sector are advertised on Public Contracts Scotland, the national portal set up in 2008. Bids are usually submitted through PCS-Tender, the national eTendering system it funds. The directorate also runs frameworks covering construction, corporate services, ICT, professional services, utilities and HR. Many of these frameworks are open to the wider Scottish public sector as well as central government. The Supplier Development Programme offers free tender training to SMEs and third sector organisations.

Procurement spend from central entities makes up 66% of overall UK public spend.

Over the past 5 years, most of the Scottish Government's contract awards have been in business services, IT services and research and development.

Relevant CPV codes

38510000 · Microscopes
38511000 · Electron microscopes
38512200 · Molecular microscopes

Decision makers

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