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ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW

RBGKEW/868 DART-HRMS

Laboratory EquipmentCPV 38000000 38400000 38430000 38433000
Value£233k
Awarded1 Oct 2020
Published10 Dec 2020
RegionNationwide
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£233ktotal contract value
median £70k
this tender£0£588k

This is a large award for Laboratory & Precision Equipment — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 9,869 valued Laboratory & Precision Equipment tenders in our corpus.

The brief

A solution to enable the recording of high-resolution mass spectrum (MS) 'fingerprints' directly from fragments of wood.

These MS fingerprints will support the identification of the species from which the wood was obtained to assist the enforcement of EU/UK timber regulations.

This work will be done as part of a consortium of laboratories who are members of the WorldForestID programme.

To be effective for this purpose, the MS fingerprints recorded at Kew must be comparable with an existing database (ForeST) of over 16,000 wood MS fingerprints that the consortium will use and which was compiled using the ambient ionisation technique of Direct Analysis in Real Time (DART®) in combination with a JEOL 'AccuTOF' high-resolution mass spectrometer (HRMS).

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

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These MS fingerprints will support the identification

These MS fingerprints will support the identification of the species from which the wood was obtained to assist the enforcement of EU/UK timber regulations.

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