Open competition
Open procedure: the contract was advertised and any supplier could submit a bid.
Key facts
- Buyer
- University of Northumbria at Newcastle · University of Northumbria at Newcastle
- Value
- £290,000
- Procedure
- Open procedure
- Sector
- Laboratory & precision equipment · Scanning electron microscopes (CPV 38511100)
- Region
- North East
- Official notice
- 009406-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date13 Mar 2025
- Published14 Mar 2025Published 1 day after the contract date
Description
The tender process was setup as an open tender under the Public Contract Regulations 2015. The Contract awarded for supply of a Nanoindenter or picoindenter to fit within University SEM (Tescan Mira 3 with GM chamber), as well as installation, training, service and 2-year maintenance contract. NU-Pico must be developed for academic and industrial researchers to perform high speed mechanical property mapping of material surfaces (surface hardness, Young’s modulus, compression, tension, fatigue, adhesion etc.), while using SEM capabilities to perform simultaneous high resolution surface imaging, chemical mapping, 3D surface profiling and phase distribution studies.
About the supplier
Oxford Instruments Nanotechnology Tools Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 00704320).