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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

Public Health England

Provision of Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)

Laboratory EquipmentCPV 38000000 38500000 38510000 38511000
Value£500k
Awarded30 Nov 2018
Published8 Jan 2019
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£500ktotal 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

Public Health England (PHE) has awarded a contract to Carl Zeiss Ltd, for the purchase of a new Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) capable of examining biological and non-biological samples with energy-dispersive X-ray (EDX) spectroscopy capability.

This would provide for a continuation of the PHE SEM service at Porton and at Science hub Harlow in the future.

Key requirements

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Public Health England (PHE) has awarded

Public Health England (PHE) has awarded a contract to Carl Zeiss Ltd, for the purchase of a new Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) capable of examining biological and non-biological samples with energy-dispersive X-ray (EDX) spectroscopy capability.

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This would provide for a continuation

This would provide for a continuation of the PHE SEM service at Porton and at Science hub Harlow in the future.

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Source & provenance
OCID
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Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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