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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON

Provision of Diffraction Apparatus Service & Maintenance Contract

Repair & MaintenanceCPV 50000000 50300000 50320000 50324000
Value£308k
Awarded31 May 2022
Published6 Jul 2022
RegionSouth East
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£308ktotal contract value
median £130k
this tender£0£4.8m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Repair & Maintenance band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 15,278 valued Repair & Maintenance tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The UK National Crystallography Service (NCS) is a world leading, unique facility providing a service and researching in chemical crystallography.

We focus on the technique of single crystal diffraction applied to samples submitted by UK Chemistry, and related, disciplines.

The NCS's laboratory facilities are based in the Chemical Crystallography Laboratory at the University of Southampton's School of Chemistry.

UoS require a 5 Year service and maintenance contract for the hardware (Diffraction Apparatus) listed in the Specification section below.

These are open access instruments, used by PhD students.

The service contract will be required to start on the 1st July 2022 as the previous maintenance agreement will expire on the 30th June 2022.

The University needs to ensure a service contract is in place on this date, to maintain continuity of the instruments if any repairs are required

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The service contract will be required

The service contract will be required to start on the 1st July 2022 as the previous maintenance agreement will expire on the 30th June 2022.

02

The University needs to ensure a service

The University needs to ensure a service contract is in place on this date, to maintain continuity of the instruments if any repairs are required.

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OCID
78ff986a-54cc-483d-aca2-cc34f2bc3877
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
2022UoS-0502
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