Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-08-14
Buyer: Nottingham Trent University
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 33152000: Incubators | 33191110 | 38000000 | 38410000 | 38414000
Estimated value: 500000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2020-09-01
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Supply of centrifugal evaporator, centrifuge microfuge refrigerated, centrifuge microfuge non-refrigerated, centrifuge low speed/refrigerated, centrifuge low speed/non-refrigerated, centrifuge medium speed refrigerated, centrifuge medium speed non-refrigerated and centrifuge high speed refrigerated.
Circulators (cooled), circulators (heated), DriBlock heaters, drying cabinet, freeze dryer, furnaces, heating mantles, hotplates, hybridisation ovens, incubator CO2, incubator shaking, incubator standard, incubator sub-ambient, ovens, ovens (vacuum), plasma thawer, shakers (benchtop), thermal cycler and water baths.
Floor-standing autoclave — front loader, floor-standing autoclave — top loader, fume cupboard (non-ducted), laminar flow cabinet, safety cabinet class 1, safety cabinet class 2, safety cabinet class 3 and small autoclaves — bench top.
Balances, chart recorders, chloride meters, colony counters, colorimeters, conductivity meters, dissolved oxygen meters, flame photometers, fluorimeters, melting point apparatus, microplate reader, ph meters, spectrophotometer (UV and Vis) and thermo hygrometers.
Cryogenic conservation vessels; cryostats, freezers -20 ºC: upright, under bench and chest, Freezers 40 ºC upright (under bench and chest), ice maker, laboratory refrigerator +4 ºC, Liquid nitrogen dewars, rapid plasma freezers and ultra low temperature freezers (range from -40 ºC to -150 ºC).
Electrophoresis blotters and dryers, electrophoresis gel tanks and gel units, electrophoresis power packs, gel documentation system, gel dryer (vacuum), glass washing, heat sealers, inverted microscopes, lab benches and chairs, mixers (vortex), pumps (peristaltic), pumps (vacuum) rotary evaporators, sonicator, standard microscopes, stereo microscopes and stirrers.
The applicant must demonstrate that its organisation has financial capacity to perform the contract. If the information that you are submitting is for a financial year-end more than 10 months ago, please submit the latest available information or a statement signed by the finance director detailing any major changes in the current financial position since the date of the latest information provided. The tenderer must supply all financial information requested, unless you do not have two full years of accounts, then please supply as much information as possible. As per Regulation 58(9) of the Public Contract Regulations 2015, the tenderer’s minimum annual turnover should not be less than twice the contract value, unless justified and relative to the complexity and nature of the procurement.
Suppliers shall detail any relevant quality standards that apply to the subject of the tender and provide evidence of accreditation. If the items to be provided meet any British, European or International standards, the supplier shall state which standard.
The medical technologies innovation facility (MTIF) is a dual site research and development facility available to industry and academic institutions to support and accelerate the development of innovative medical technologies. Our research facility is based at Nottingham Trent University’s (NTU) Clifton Campus, four miles from the city centre. Our development centre is part of the boots enterprise zone, just two miles away from our research facility. Our team consists of commercial and technical professionals based in MTIF facilities, working with seasoned academics and strategic partners to take innovations from bench to bedside.

Eligibility requirements: NTU contract agreement.

Award value: 500000