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UK Centre For Ecology & Hydrology

Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope

Laboratory EquipmentCPV 38000000 38500000 38510000
Value£645k
Deadline31 Aug 2022
Published5 Dec 2022
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 5 Dec 2022ClosedCloses 31 Aug 2022
Contract value in context
£645ktotal contract value
median £70k
this tender£0£696k

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The brief

Sigma 300 VP Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope with integrated WiTec RISE Confocal Raman Microscope and Oxford Instruments UltimMax 40 EDS Detector & 12 months warranty.

RISE-EDS (Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope) is the world's first laboratory-based equipment for multimodal correlative microscopy and spectroscopy.

It is a full integration of a (i) WITec 3D confocal Raman microscope into a (ii) ZEISS field emission Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) that is enabled with a (iii) ZEISS Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDS) detector, as one analytical suite.

Based on the below factors there are currently only one supplier in the market that can supply the RISE-EDS equipment and meet all our requirements; Carl Zeiss Ltd is the only supplier that can provide this unique technology; a fully correlated imaging solution that incorporates light microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy and confocal Raman mapping.

Carl Zeiss Ltd owns the patent for the ZEN Connect correlative software and the ZEN Intellesis software for machine learning-based segmentation of image data.

These are the only commercial correlative and segmentation tools and are only available from Carl Zeiss Ltd.

Key requirements

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Sigma 300 VP Field Emission Scanning Electron

Sigma 300 VP Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope with integrated WiTec RISE Confocal Raman Microscope and Oxford Instruments UltimMax 40 EDS Detector & 12 months warranty.

02

It is a full integration of

It is a full integration of a (i) WITec 3D confocal Raman microscope into a (ii) ZEISS field emission Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) that is enabled with a (iii) ZEISS Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDS) detector, as one analytical suite.

03

Based on the below factors there are

Based on the below factors there are currently only one supplier in the market that can supply the RISE-EDS equipment and meet all our requirements;.

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Carl Zeiss Ltd is the only supplier

Carl Zeiss Ltd is the only supplier that can provide this unique technology; a fully correlated imaging solution that incorporates light microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy and confocal Raman mapping.

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