Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2020-07-14
Buyer: London Universities Purchasing Consortium
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 33100000 | 33152000: Incubators | 33165000 | 33191110 | 38000000
Award criteria: Lowest price

Technical requirements: LUPC is tendering to established a multi-provider framework agreement for the supply of general laboratory equipment. Over 12 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 12 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.
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.
Autoclaves (floor standing), autoclaves (desktop), laminar flow cabinet, fume cupboard and safety cabinet class I, II and III, glass washing.
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.
Ice maker, cryostats, cryogenic conservation vessels, desiccator cabinets, liquid nitrogen dewars, ultra low freezers up -150
Stereo and inverted microscopes, pumps and gel dryer (vacuum), electrophoresis blotters and dryers, electrophoresis gel tanks and gel units, electrophoresis power packs, gel documentation system, mixers (vortex), rotary evaporators, standard microscopes, stirrers, sonicator, pulveriser, heat sealers, laboratory benches and chairs, microplate washer, pyrolysis systems, clean chemistry systems, supercritical fluid systems, photo bioreactor, decomposition system, overhead stirrer, laboratory.
Specification may include cloud system, wired system, temperature sensors, power and energy monitoring software.
To supply a range of assorted portable and wall-mounted gas monitoring and detection equipment in accordance with the sample specifications (oxygen and carbon dioxide as below; special gases to follow). The value given below is the estimated annual value of this Lot, excluding VAT. The estimated value of this lot may be subject to significant error as this lot has not been previously collaboratively contracted by the LUPC Gases.
To supply a single source for all equipment defined in lot 1 to 10. This lot supports members who are refurbishing an existing or introducing a new lab space.