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Natural History Museum

Powder XRD system for the Natural History Museum

Laboratory EquipmentCPV 38000000 38500000
Value£914k
Awarded13 Dec 2022
Published12 Jan 2023
RegionLondon
Outcome — awarded

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Contract value in context
£914ktotal contract value
median £70k
this tender£0£987k

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 two X-ray Diffractometer systems (a Single-Crystal XRD and a Powder XRD).

These are required for a range of the most demanding scientific applications in the Natural History Museum, London.

We are looking for a state-of-the-art Single-Crystal XRD instrument (SCXRD) that enables the structure analysis of very small and complex crystals at ambient and non-ambient conditions (low/high temperature, high pressure).

We are also looking for a state-of-the-art Powder XRD instrument that enables the analysis of both tiny and large sample volumes at the highest resolution, speed, and reproducibility.

Versatility in measurement modes and sample stages is essential.

The instrument shall be equipped with heating and cooling stages to monitor the thermal behaviour of phases.

Auto-sample changing capability is required to ensure laboratory efficiency and high throughput.

This award notice is for Lot 2 - the Powder XRD System

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

The instrument shall be equipped with heating

The instrument shall be equipped with heating and cooling stages to monitor the thermal behaviour of phases.

02

Auto-sample changing capability is required to ensure

Auto-sample changing capability is required to ensure laboratory efficiency and high throughput.

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