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Supply of CLEM Microscope
Forecast: a planned procurement that is not yet at tender stage.
01/ The notice
Key facts
- Value
- £300,000Estimated value stated in the notice
- Deadline (UK time)
- No open deadlineA deadline does not apply to this forecast notice.
- Published
- 17 May 2021
- Region
- Not stated
02/ The brief
What the notice says
Not fully read: this is the notice text; attached documents are not read.
Prior information notice (PIN): confocal fluorescence microscope
NPL is looking to procure a confocal laser scanning fluorescence microscope with the following minimum features:
• Fully motorised, computer controlled inverted microscope system, including sample mounting stage, focus, objective lens turret, etc. Control software for multi-dimensional image acquisition
• A range of different objective lenses (from low magnification / low NA air objectives to high magnification / high NA oil immersion objectives)
• Multiple excitation laser lines, including 405 nm, 488 nm, 561 nm and 638 nm or similar
• Multiple parallel detectors (at least four)
• Incubation system for maintaining sample temperature and environmental CO2 concentration
• Focus stabilisation system for long duration time lapse imaging
• Capacity for label free imaging (DIC or similar).
03/ Classification
CPV codes
Common Procurement Vocabulary codes, exactly as the notice lists them. No descriptions are added here.
- 38000000
04/ History
Releases of this notice
One release held, oldest first. Dates are UK time.
- 17 May 2021Planning notice
Planning notice published 17 May 2021.
Release 010889-2021
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05/ Limits
What the source does not tell us
- Only one release is held, so there is no change history.
06/ Questions
About this notice
07/ Related
Where to go next
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- Reference
- ocds-h6vhtk-02b1fa
- Source
- Find a Tender
- Stage
- planning · Planning
- Last verified
- Sun 5 Apr 2026, 13:33 BST
- Read at
- Sat 17 Oct 2026, 03:30 BST
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