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Scottish Water

GB-Glasgow: The Supply and Installation of 2x Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometer (ICPOES)

Laboratory EquipmentCPV 38000000
Value£240k
Awarded26 Sept 2020
Published18 Feb 2021
RegionScotland
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£240ktotal contract value
median £70k
this tender£0£588k

This is a large award for Laboratory & Precision Equipment — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 9,869 valued Laboratory & Precision Equipment tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Scottish Water is looking to purchase two Inductively Coupled Plasma - Optical Emission (ICP-OES) instruments for the analysis of metals in waste waters, trade effluents, leachates, raw waters and potable waters.

Scottish Water is inviting suppliers to tender for the supply and installation of the instruments and provide on-going warranty / servicing / maintenance agreements for the lifetime of the instruments (6 years).

The instruments will be used for the determination of metals in crude and final effluent, trade effluent, leachate samples and raw and potable waters.

The instruments must achieve limits of detection, precision and bias targets to meet existing and future regulatory requirements.

They must also include systems for control/elimination of interferences from plasma based polyatomic species.

Supplier to provide servicing / maintenance agreements for the lifetime of the instruments (6 years).

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

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Scottish Water is inviting suppliers to tender

Scottish Water is inviting suppliers to tender for the supply and installation of the instruments and provide on-going warranty / servicing / maintenance agreements for the lifetime of the instruments (6 years).

02

The instruments must achieve limits of detection

The instruments must achieve limits of detection, precision and bias targets to meet existing and future regulatory requirements.

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They must also include systems for control/elimination

They must also include systems for control/elimination of interferences from plasma based polyatomic species.

04

Supplier to provide servicing / maintenance agreements

Supplier to provide servicing / maintenance agreements for the lifetime of the instruments (6 years).

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