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The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

RBGKEW1365 - Contract Title 7-place Microbalance

Laboratory EquipmentCPV 38000000
Value£54k
Awarded12 Feb 2025
Published26 Mar 2025
RegionNationwide
Outcome — awarded

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Contract value in context
£54ktotal contract value
median £70k
this tender£0£588k

This sits in the lower-middle of the Laboratory & Precision Equipment band — a mid-scale opportunity. Based on 9,869 valued Laboratory & Precision Equipment tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The Millennium Seed Bank (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew) houses the world's largest ex situ collection of wild seeds.

Fruit and seed weight measurements are crucial for seed morphological studies, gravimetric moisture content experiments, and estimating seed numbers in large collections.

When seeds or collections are too small to be measured with standard analytical balances, it is important to have specialized equipment to accurately measure seed weight, such as a microbalance.

Specifically, we require a microbalance with at least 0.1 µg readability, internal calibration, a minimum total capacity of 2 g, and a clear, responsive display.

Additionally, it should have the capability to transfer balance readings directly into a computer spreadsheet at the press of a button.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

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Additionally, it should have the capability

Additionally, it should have the capability to transfer balance readings directly into a computer spreadsheet at the press of a button.

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