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Natural History Museum

Laser Ablation System for the Natural History Museum

Laboratory EquipmentCPV 38000000 38600000 38630000 38636000
Value£209k
Awarded5 Jan 2023
Published13 Jan 2023
RegionLondon
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£209ktotal 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

The Natural History Museum (NHM) wishes to secure the purchase of a Laser Ablation System for the Imaging and Analysis Centre.

The NHM has an excellent history of laser ablation analysis providing world class research and commercial work.

We have run two systems since 2012 to cope with research demand and support the commercial work each year.

Our previous system, which carried out most of the commercial work, has recently failed without warning.

To keep up with contractual demands, while continuing to support grant funded projects, the Museum needs to acquire and install a laser ablation system as soon as possible.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

We have run two systems since 2012

We have run two systems since 2012 to cope with research demand and support the commercial work each year.

02

To keep up with contractual demands, while

To keep up with contractual demands, while continuing to support grant funded projects, the Museum needs to acquire and install a laser ablation system as soon as possible.

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Source & provenance
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Stage
contract · Contract
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