Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-09-06
Buyer: University of Glasgow
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 33100000 | 38520000
Submission deadline: 2018-10-04
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: PURCH1625 Provision of a Contract Agreement For Digital Slide Scanner plus Data Management and Image Analysis Software System.
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Alongside the digital image generation and data management we also require an image analysis system that can provide us with high level data and high throughput image analysis for expression data of cellular and protein components in both tissue microarrays and full sections. The system should be able to analyse both brightfield (including in situ hybridisation) and fluorescently labelled slides.
The system we acquire should be a web-based system with the capability to view images and data to be viewed and shared by users across multiple remote sites via a server.
The University of Glasgow requires a digital slide scanning system that can scan both brightfield (H&E, immunohistochemistry and in situ hybridisation) and fluorescently labelled glass slides and convert them to high quality digital images. The system must also be able to scan and digitise tissue microarray slides.
In addition we require a data management system to work alongside the digital slide scanner and support scanned and digitised images from all/majority of commercial scanner vendors.
— Product liability insurance with a limit of indemnity of not less than ten million pounds sterling (10 000 000 GBP) in relation to any one claim or series of claims,
— Public liability insurance with a limit of indemnity of not less than five million pounds sterling (5 000 000 GBP) in relation to any one claim or series of claims,
— Employer's liability insurance with a limit of indemnity of not less than five million pounds sterling (5 000 000 GBP),
— Professional indemnity insurance with a limit of indemnity of not less than one million pounds sterling (1 000 000 GBP) in relation to any one claim or series of claims,
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