CONTRACT AWARD NOTICE – OFFICIAL JOURNAL

Section I: Contracting Authority

I.1)

Name, Address and Contact Point(s)

I.2)

Type of contracting Authority and Main Activity or Activities

Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local sub-divisions National or federal agency/Office Regional or local Authority Regional or local Agency/Office Body governed by public law European Institution/Agency or International Organisation

General public services Defence Public order and safety Environment Economic and financial affairs Health Housing and community amenities Social protection Recreation, culture and religion Education

Section II: Object of the Contract

II.1)

Description

II.1.1)

Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority

Tender for the Supply of Microscopy Equipment

II.1.2(a))

Type of works contract

II.1.2(b))

Type of supplies contract

Purchase		Rent		Lease
Hire-purchase		Combination of these

II.1.2(c))

Type of service contract

II.1.2)

Main site or location of works, place of delivery or performance

Swansea University Science & Innovation Bay Campus

II.1.3)

This notice involves a framework agreement

II.1.4)

Short description of the contract or purchase(s)

Swansea University is requesting tenders for instruments that provide a technical solution to the two Lots listed below: -

Lot 1

REQ 1 – 1 Focused Ion Beam Scanning Electron Microscope (FIBSEM)

REQ 2 – 1 Large chamber tungsten / Lab Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)

Lot 2

REQ 1 – 1 Inverted stage Reflected light Microscope (IRM)

REQ 2 – 1 Digital Microscope (DM)

REQ 3 – 7 Laboratory Optical Microscopes (LOMs)

REQ 4 – Flexible microscope image capture system

Swansea University will appoint one supplier only to each Lot.

The University will appoint the Most Economically Advantageous Tender for each Lot to supply the Goods and related Services. Tenderers may apply for one or both Lots.

The University will however accept consortium tenders. See the section entitled Consortium Bidding of this document for further information.

This supplier will act as the single point of contact during the installation and commissioning of the equipment. Subsequent equipment upkeep and technical support (including service contracts) should be provided by the OEMs (where they are not also the supplier) and or a certified servicing company.

This equipment will be installed in the Advanced Imaging of Materials Centre (AIM) a new bespoke designed facility that will form a core part of Swansea University’s £450M second campus development. The facility infrastructure will be completed in May of 2014 with equipment installations expected to be carried out between July and October. As such, particular attention will be paid to commitments to planning and implementation of delivery, installation and commissioning by the supplier. The AIM facility will house a wide variety of imaging and spatially resolved analytical techniques including (but not limited to): X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy, X-Ray Diffraction, X-Ray tomography, Scanning Kelvin Probe atomic force microscopy, transmission electron microscopy and scanning vibrating electrode technique. Whilst the primary focus of the centre is to support materials science, it will be an open access facility and as such it will serve a broad range of other users from other fields (e.g. biosciences). The centre is interested where possible to integrate / correlate the data generated from these various techniques and those supplied as part of this requirement.

Funding for this equipment is being provided by the Welsh European Funding Office. For guidance the total budget available for this purchase is £1,200,000 including VAT.

II.1.5)

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

II.1.6)

Contract covered by the government procurement agreement (GPA)

II.2)

Total final value of the contract(s)

II.2.1)

Total final value of the contract(s)

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1)

Type of procedure

IV.1.1)

Type of procedure

IV.2)

Award criteria

IV.2.1)

Award criteria

IV.2.2)

An electronic auction has been used

IV.3)

Administrative information

IV.3.1)

File reference number attributed by the contracting authority

T56(15)

IV.3.2)

Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract

Other previous publications

Section V: Award of contract

Contract No:

Title:

Lot No:

V.1)

Date of contract award:

V.2)

Numbers of offers received:

V.3)

Name and address of economic operator to whom the contract has been awarded

V.4)

Information on value of contract

V.5)

The contract is likely to be subcontracted

Short description of the value/proportion of the contract to be subcontracted

Section V: Award of contract

Contract No:

Title:

Lot No:

V.1)

Date of contract award:

V.2)

Numbers of offers received:

V.3)

Name and address of economic operator to whom the contract has been awarded

V.4)

Information on value of contract

V.5)

The contract is likely to be subcontracted

Short description of the value/proportion of the contract to be subcontracted

Section VI: Complementary Information

VI.1)

Contract related to a project and/or programme financed by community funds?

Swansea University Science & Innovation Bay Campus.

The funding for this contract is provided from a number of different sources including the Welsh Government, UK

Government, and European Investment Bank Loan and the project is part funded by the European Regional

Development Fund through the Welsh Government. The successful contractor will be required to comply with

reasonable requests for information from the University to satisfy its own needs or those of the funding bodies.

VI.2)

Additional Information

(WA Ref:24015)

VI.3)

Procedures for appeal

VI.3.1)

Body responsible for appeal procedures

Body responsible for mediation procedures

VI.3.2)

Lodging of appeals

Swansea University Procurement Department

VI.3.3)

Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained

VI.4)

Dispatch date of this Notice