Public procurement notice: Additional Information
Published: 2020-03-16
Buyer: London Universities Purchasing Consortium
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 33100000 | 33152000: Incubators | 33165000 | 33191110 | 38000000
Submission deadline: 2020-04-16
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: LUPC is tendering to established a multi-provider framework agreement for the supply of general laboratory equipment. Over twelve lots the framework including, but not limited to: centrifuges; environmental control; safety; measurement; environmental storage (fridges and freezers); water purification; laboratory disposal and recycling; gas monitoring and detection; general laboratory equipment.
This framework agreement will commence on 15 June 2020 for an initial period of 36 months, with the option to extend the agreement for twelve months (subject to satisfactory economic operator performance). The framework will be available to the members of LUPC, NWUPC, APUC, HEPCW, NEUPC and SUPC.
Microfuge, low speed, medium speed, high speed, ultra and analytical, centrifugal evaporator vacuum centrifuges/concentrator.
As defined in the attached document titled ‘Schedule 3.3 Equipment type list, model offers and compliance’.
Ovens, incubators, dryers, water baths and thermal cyclers, circulators (heated), driblock heaters, freeze dyer, furnaces, heating Mantles, hotplates, hybridisation ovens, shakers (benchtop), plasma thawer, microwave systems.
As defined in the attached document titled ‘Schedule 3.3 Equipment type list, model offers and compliance’.
Autoclaves (floor standing), autoclaves (desktop), laminar flow cabinet, fume cupboard and safety cabinet class I, II and III, glass washing.
As defined in the attached document titled ‘Schedule 3.3 Equipment type list, model offers and compliance’.
Balances, microplate reader and spectrophotometer, chart recorders, chloride meters, colony counters, colorimeters, conductivity meters, Dissolved oxygen meters, flame photometers, fluorimeters, melting point apparatus, ph meters, thermo hygrometer, calorimeter, chemistry analyser, dissolution tester, viscometer, coulometric and volumetric titrator karl fischer, potentiometric titration, analyser alkalinity system, total organic halides (TOX)/adsorbable organic halides (AOX), mercury analysers.
As defined in the attached document titled ‘Schedule 3.3 Equipment type list, model offers and compliance’.
Ultra low freezer up to -86 oC upright, ultra low freezer up to -86 ºC chest, ultra low freezers up -150 chest, ultra low freezer up to -40 ºC upright, ultra low freezer up to -40 ºC chest, refrigerator under bench, refrigerator upright and rapid plasma freezers.
Ultra low freezer up to -86 ºC upright, ultra low freezer up to -86 ºC chest, ultra low freezers up -150 chest, ultra low freezer up to -40 ºC upright, ultra low freezer up to -40 ºC chest, refrigerator.
As defined in the attached document titled ‘Schedule 3.3 Equipment type list, model offers and compliance’.
Ice Maker, Cryostats, Cryogenic Conservation Vessels, Desiccator Cabinets, Liquid Nitrogen Dewars, ultra low freezers up -150 oC chest, ultra low freezers up -150 oC chest.
As defined in the attached document titled "Schedule 3.3 Equipment type list, model offers and compliance".