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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON

Digital High Resolution Microscope

Laboratory EquipmentCPV 38510000 38900000
Value£83k
Awarded16 Feb 2023
Published17 Mar 2023
RegionNationwide
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£83ktotal contract value
median £70k
this tender£0£588k

This sits in the upper-middle of the Laboratory & Precision Equipment band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 9,869 valued Laboratory & Precision Equipment tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The University of Southampton requires a Digital High Resolution Microscope to be used within the Faculty of Environment & Life Sciences.

The primary application of the equipment will be to use imaging to select, discriminate and facilitate the manual recovery of protein crystals, which will then be used for X-ray diffraction crystallography.

The IMC already possesses multi-use transmitted light microscopes (e.g. digital stereomicroscopes); however, these do not provide the required resolution to correctly identify the crystals, and lack the on-board analysis and object discrimination functions required.

Secondary to this, the microscope will be hosted in a multi-user environment that supports several faculties and external users including Engineering, Palaeontology, and Archaeology.

The microscope should therefore have functionality that appeals to a wider user-base, such as topological specimen analysis and 3D imaging capability.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The IMC already possesses multi-use transmitted light

The IMC already possesses multi-use transmitted light microscopes (e.g. digital stereomicroscopes); however, these do not provide the required resolution to correctly identify the crystals, and lack the on-board analysis and object discrimination functions required.

02

The microscope should therefore have functionality

The microscope should therefore have functionality that appeals to a wider user-base, such as topological specimen analysis and 3D imaging capability.

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OCID
2e1237f5-b32c-4878-9a14-52ac8cfcd078
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
2022UoS-0658
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