Competition with a shortlist
Competitive procedure with a selection stage: suppliers were shortlisted before being invited to bid.
Key facts
- Buyer
- University of Sheffield · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Bruker UK Ltd
- Value
- £124,936
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Sector
- Laboratory & precision equipment · Microscopes (CPV 38510000)
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber
- Official notice
- View on Contracts Finder
- Timeline
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- Contract date20 Jan 2025
- Published6 Feb 2025Published 17 days after the contract date
Description
Process conducted via mini-competition under NWUPC framework LAB3162 NW for High Value Laboratory Equipment Lot 2. The University of Sheffield's School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences with funding from EPSRC are looking to procure an Atomic Force Microscope. The instrument will be used for the characterisation of a wide range of materials including organic thin films and monolayers, molecular materials and molecular adsorbates on inorganic surfaces, metals, dielectrics, polymers and biological materials. It will be used to characterise the topographical properties of surfaces in contact and intermittent contact mode, lateral forces, the nanomechanical properties of materials and interfaces, and the magnitude of interaction forces between various kinds of probes and the aforementioned materials.
About the supplier
Bruker UK Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 00923086).