Contract award: UK-Bristol: scanning electron microscopes

UK-Bristol: scanning electron microscopes

2010/S 168-256899

CONTRACT AWARD NOTICE

Supplies

SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY

• I.1)
  NAME, ADDRESSES AND CONTACT POINT(S)

  Attn: Tel. E-mail: Fax University of Bristol
  Senate House Tyndall Avenue
  Mike Caddick
  BS8 1THBristol
  UNITED KINGDOM
  +44 1173317293
  mike.caddick@bristol.ac.uk
  +44 1179251311

  Internet address(es)

  General address of the contracting authority https://tender.bris.ac.uk/procontract/bristol/supplier.nsf/frm_home?open...

• I.2)
  TYPE OF THE CONTRACTING AUTHORITY AND MAIN ACTIVITY OR ACTIVITIES

  Body governed by public law

  Education

  The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting authorities No

SECTION II: OBJECT OF THE CONTRACT

• II.1)
  DESCRIPTION
• II.1.1)
  Title attributed to the contract

  Contract for the supply and installation of a FIB-SEM System.

• II.1.2)
  Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance

  Supplies

  Purchase

  Main place of delivery UKK11.

II.1.3)
The notice involves

• II.1.4)
  Short description of the contract or purchase(s)

  A workstation comprising of a combined focused gallium ion gun and scanning electron microscope. It will be capable of acquiring secondary electron and secondary ion images with a spatial resolution of a few nanometres from a range of materials that may be insulating in nature.

  It will also be capable of etching materials at high spatial resolution with suitable etch enhancement chemistries as well as options of deposition of metals and insulators. The system should be optimised for low-damage cutting of materials with the ion beam, for example giving low-damage TEM specimens and low-damage optical devices.

  Therefore, the low-energy performance of the ion gun is crucial for our applications. The workstation will be installed in the basement of the HH Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol, UK.

• II.1.5)
  Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)

  38511100, 38511200

• II.1.6)
  Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

  Yes

• II.2)
  TOTAL FINAL VALUE OF CONTRACT(S)
• II.2.1)
  Total final value of contract(s)

  Value 620 000 GBP

  Excluding VAT

SECTION IV: PROCEDURE

• IV.1)
  TYPE OF PROCEDURE
• IV.1.1)
  Type of procedure

  Open

• IV.2)
  AWARD CRITERIA
• IV.2.1)
  Award criteria

  The most economically advantageous tender in terms of

  1. Ability to meet technical requirements. Weighting 60

  2. After sales service. Weighting 5

  3. Price. Weighting 30

  4. Delivery. Weighting 5

• IV.2.2)
  An electronic auction has been used

  No

• IV.3)
  ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
• IV.3.1)
  File reference number attributed by the contracting authority

  UoB0125/G/MJC

• IV.3.2)
  Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract

  Contract notice

  Notice number in the OJEU: 2010/S 060-018875 of 11.2.2010

SECTION V: AWARD OF CONTRACT

CONTRACT NO: 1

LOT NO: 1 - TITLE Combined FIB-SEM System.

• V.1)
  Date of contract award decision:

  25.5.2010

• V.2)
  NUMBER OF OFFERS RECEIVED:

  2

• V.3)
  NAME AND ADDRESS OF ECONOMIC OPERATOR IN FAVOUR OF WHOM A CONTRACT AWARD DECISION HAS BEEN TAKEN

  FEI UK Ltd
  CB4 0HFCambridge
  UNITED KINGDOM

V.4)
INFORMATION ON VALUE OF CONTRACT

V.5)
THE CONTRACT IS LIKELY TO BE SUB-CONTRACTED

SECTION VI: COMPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

• VI.1)
  CONTRACT RELATED TO A PROJECT AND/OR PROGRAMME FINANCED BY COMMUNITY FUNDS

  No

VI.2)
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• VI.3)
  PROCEDURES FOR APPEAL

VI.3.1)
Body responsible for appeal procedures

• VI.3.2)
  Lodging of appeals

  Precise information on deadline(s) for lodging appeals: In accordance with our obligations under UK Statutory Instrument 2009/2992 'The Remedies Directive', the University observed a minimum 10 calendar day Standstill Period at the point information on the outcome of the tender process was communicated to tenderers.

VI.3.3)
Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained

• VI.4)
  DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE:

  26.8.2010