Awarded without open competition
Awarded without open competition. The buyer went directly to one or a few suppliers instead of advertising the contract. Procurement rules allow this only in specific cases, such as extreme urgency, when only one supplier can do the work, or for call-offs from an existing framework.
Key facts
- Buyer
- University Of Edinburgh · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Carl Zeiss Ltd
- Value
- £730,302.66
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Laboratory & precision equipment · Microscopes (CPV 38510000)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 011478-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date3 Oct 2025
- Published9 Feb 2026Published 129 days after the contract date
Description
IGC and CMVM research requires very high resolution imaging of large samples (organoids, model organisms etc) using very gentle illumination. We have already conducted several detailed studies into the imaging methodology required for our applications and have already ruled out: ‘Spinning disk / point scanning confocal’ type illumination as this is too photo-toxic, Gaussian type light sheet, as the abberations in the light sheet beam path are not compatible with our samples, Oblique Plane type imaging approaches as the field of view and resolution of these approaches are not appropriate for our science. Since this equipment is mainly for use in Developmental and cancer biology we also need the system to be fully enclosed and provide a very stable environment for periods of days. It has been determined that a lightsheet type microscope with laser beam forming would be required to fulfil this requirement. Additional information: This was a call-off from APUC buying consortium framework …
About the supplier
Carl Zeiss Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 00542141).