Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-03-23
Buyer: Cente for Process Innnovation Limited
Country: UK
Region: Tees Valley and Durham
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 31710000 | 38000000 | 38432200 | 38434540 | 38552000
Estimated value: 200000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2017-04-24
Award criteria: The most economic tender
EU fund: ERDF

Technical requirements: CPI requires a small scale TFF system for process development and defining processing operation conditions / parameters. The equipment will typically be used to process fermentation broths, protein solutions, sugar solutions.
The system must be capable of performing micro-filtration (MF), ultra-filtration (UF) and dia filtration (DF) with a wide range of membrane types.
To supply CPI Industrial Biotechnology and Biorefining (IBB) with a small scale tangential flow filtration (TFF) system which can be used to develop scalable filtration processes.
CPI requires a single stage laboratory scale centrifugal liquid-liquid extractor to evaluate the organic solvent extraction of products from an aqueous solution in a continuous manner.
To supply CPI Industrial Biotechnology and Biorefining (IBB) with a Liquid — Liquid bench top separator which can be used to develop scalable extraction processes.
— CPI requires a laboratory scale electro dialysis for separation and concentration of small molecules e.g. organic acids, salts, amines, etc from aqueous fermentation broths.
— Electrodialysis is an electrochemical process whereby electrically charged particles, ions, are transported from a raw solution (retentate, diluate) into a more concentrated solution (permeate, concentrate) through ion-selective membranes by applying an electric field.
To supply CPI Industrial Biotechnology and Biorefining (IBB) with lab scale electro-dialysis equipment which can be used to develop scalable separation processes.
CPI requires small scale rotary drum vacuum filtration equipment for the dewatering of solid / liquid slurries to form dry cakes.
The equipment will ideally be sized as small scale to quickly select the optimal processing conditions and filtration media / cloth type to enable scale up of industrial processes as well as different type of discharge.
To supply CPI Industrial Biotechnology and Biorefining (IBB) with small scale rotary drum vacuum filtration equipment which can be used to develop scalable filtration processes.
— A bench / lab scale chromatography system for the separation of enzymes / proteins, neutral and charged small molecules e.g. organic acids. from process liquid streams arising from fermentation broths.
— This system should enable full method development and include the ability to switch between multiple columns, buffers, etc.
To supply CPI Industrial Biotechnology and Biorefining (IBB) with a development chromatography system which can be used to develop scalable chromatographic separation processes.
— The equipment is intended for lab scale processing evaluations so must be scalable to larger equipment.

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Please refer to the tender document which can be found at www.uk-cpi.com/tenders