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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES

Purchase of a Visible - Short Wave Infrared Fibre Optics Reflectance Spectroscopy (VIS-SWIR FORS) System

Electrical EquipmentCPV 31000000 38000000 48000000 72000000
Value£52k
Awarded27 Jan 2020
Published14 Feb 2020
RegionNationwide
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£52ktotal contract value
median £94k
this tender£0£2.3m

This sits in the lower-middle of the Electrical Machinery & Apparatus band — a mid-scale opportunity. Based on 5,617 valued Electrical Machinery & Apparatus tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The purpose of this Procurement Exercise is for the purchase of: 1.

A fibre optics reflectance spectroscopy (FORS) system covering the visible and the short-wave infrared range (VIS-SWIR: 380 - 2500 nm).

The system must be able to non-invasively acquire good quality spectra of the varied materials in an archival collection (such as pigments, organic dyes, inks, binding media, paper, parchment, textiles, photographic emulsions, organic coatings and adhesives, degradation products, etc.) using low illumination levels that are safe for the conservation of the materials.

2.

Software (if licences are requires, these must be included, for at least 5 users) to acquire, process and analyse the spectra.

Full technical requirements are given in the Invitation to Tender.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

Able to non-invasively acquire good quality spectra

able to non-invasively acquire good quality spectra of the varied materials in an.

02

Software (if licences are requires, these must

Software (if licences are requires, these must be included, for at least 5 users) to.

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OCID
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Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
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