Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-11-20
Buyer: University of St Andrews
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 33111000: X-ray equipment | 38400000
Estimated value: 400000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2020-12-21
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The school of chemistry requires two XPDs to collect high quality powder diffraction data from a variety of powders which include metal oxides, polymers, zeolites, mesoporous and nanomaterials.
— Both of the XPD’s must operate in transmission mode (primarily capillaries, but the option of a transmission foil sample holder could be an additional desirable feature).
— Angular accuracy, resolution and counting rate must enable collection of high-quality powder diffraction data, suitable for structure determination and/or refinement, in 3-6 hours on each XPD.
— One of the XPDs must be equipped with a capillary reaction stage, which is allows experiments to be carried out under a range of different gaseous atmospheres at temperatures of up to 1800 ºC.
— An automatic sample changer (for capillary samples) for one XPD is desirable and should be included in the tender as an optional extra.
— Each XPD must be equipped with a desktop PC with Windows 10 with a network card to enable integration of the computer into the local network of the School. Each computer must be equipped with the software to enable acquisition and visualisation of powder diffraction patterns, as well as basic operations (peak search, background elimination, etc) and conversion of the data into 2-column ASCII format and other formats accepted by all popular software packages for phase identification, indexing, structure determination and refinement, including PDF, Crysfire, GSAS, GSAS-II, FULLPROF, TOPAS, FOX.
— The XPD software license must cover either multiple installation of the software (up to 100) or allow simultaneous remote use of the software over the school of chemistry network.
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All tenders for the University of St Andrews are administered through our eTendering System (InTend).To Express an Interest please go tou our tender website at https://intendhost.co.uk/universityofstandrews
Please note that 'Notes of Interest' placed via PCS (Public Contracts Scotland) are not automatically accepted
Note: to register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Public Contracts Scotland Web Site at https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=635887
The University of St Andrews will incorporate a minimum of 10 calendar day standstill period at the point of information on the award of the contract being communicated to tenderers. This period allows unsuccessful tenderers to seek further debriefing from the contracting authority before the contract is entered into. Applicants have 2 working days from the notification of the award decision to request additional debriefing and that information has to be provided a minimum of 3 working days before the expiry of the standstill period. Such additional information should be requested from The University of St Andrews.
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Award value: 400000