Recent procurements of miscellaneous evaluation or testing instruments in Ireland
2023-10-09LA2479C - UL - RFT for Supply of Equipment for the High-Resolution Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) facility... (Education Procurement Service EPS)
The current High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) facility at the Bernal Institute comprises a field-emission JEOL 2100F and a Thermofisher aberration correction and monochromated Titan Themis cubed TEM. The JEOL 2100F TEM is in active use for the purpose of bright field (BF) and dark field (DF) TEM imaging, electron diffraction, high resolution (HR)-TEM, scanning TEM (STEM), with high angle annular dark field (HAADF), BF and secondary electron (SE2) detectors, energy dispersive X-ray …
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2023-10-09Supply, Delivery and Commissioning of a Photonic 3D Microfabrication Printing System for Tyndall National Institute,... (University College Cork)
The photonic Packaging Group at the Tyndall National Institute is seeking to purchase equipment that will enable the 3D printing of spherical, aspherical, freeform and compound micro-optical elements on both optical fibers and photonic integrated circuits (PICs). The Photonic 3D printing system will be a key enabler for advanced photonics packaging research and will have applications in communications, life-science and critically, quantum computing, where such micro-optics can solve critical …
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2023-10-04LA2543C - DAFM - RFT for the Supply, Delivery, Installation, and Commissioning of Thermocycler (Education Procurement Service EPS)
Tenderers are sought for the Supply, Delivery, Installation and Commissioning of Third Party certified real-time PCR based alternative method, i.e., thermocycler and all associated proprietary consumables (including kits, reagents, plastics, and other consumables), for the detection of Salmonella in a broad range of food samples for Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM). The real-time PCR based alternative method must be certified by a third party in accordance with the protocol set out …
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2023-09-12LA2625C UCC RFT for the Supply of a Microscope-based Laser Doppler Vibrometer (Education Procurement Service EPS)
Tenders are sought for the supply, delivery, installation, and commissioning of a Microscope based Laser Doppler Vibrometer (LDV). The scope of this tender is to purchase a Microscope-based Laser Doppler Vibrometer capable of non-contact vibration measurement of MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical systems) devices with vibrational resonances ranging from near-DC to 2.5 GHz. To also include all necessary training and warranties. The Microscope-based Laser Doppler Vibrometer (LDV) must fulfil the minimum …
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2023-09-11X-ray and amp -VUV Radiation (University College Dublin UCD)
MNMT requires a device for radiation detection in the X-ray, Soft X-ray and Vacuum UV (VUV) range of the electromagnetic spectrum. Specifically, this should cover a minimum spectral range of operation between ~5 and 250 nm (↔ ~ 5 – 250 eV). Such a device can be in the form of a CCD or CMOS camera, or single pixel detector.
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2023-09-07The supply of Automatic Indicative Particulate Matter (PM) monitors for ambient air quality monitoring with... (Environmental Protection Agency)
The National Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Unit in the EPA invites tenders for the provision of a minimum of three fixed location Indicative Particulate Matter monitors in 2023. Up to a maximum of 22 monitors may be required until the end of the contract in 2027. Monitors are for ambient air quality indicative PM monitoring with externally mounted enclosures (with fittings to secure the unit to an external surface) and associated communications hardware/software. Instruments provided must be listed as …
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2023-09-06LA2638C - DAFM - RFT for the Supply, Delivery, Installation, and Commissioning of Real Time PCR Thermocyclers (Education Procurement Service EPS)
Tenders are sought for the supply, delivery, installation, and commissioning of three (3) real time PCR Thermocyclers. This requirement to purchase three Real Time Thermocyclers is to support the increasing needs of the Plant Science Division to analyse samples using real time PCR methodology. The instruments must support medium to high throughput real time polymerase chain reactions. The instruments must have a small footprint and operate through an integrated touchscreen or through a direct LAN …
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2023-08-25Supply Delivery Installation and Commissioning of a Continuous Segmented Flow Analyser for University College Cork (University College Cork)
Tenders are sought for the supply and delivery of a CONTINUOUS SEGMENTED FLOW ANALYSER - The scope of this tender is to purchase a CONTINUOUS SEGMENTED FLOW ANALYSER. The instrument will be used for the determination of regulated dissolved inorganic nitrogen pollutants in aqueous matrices including nitrate (NO3-N), nitrite (NO2-N) and ammoniacal nitrogen (NH3-N) over a broad range of concentrations found in natural waters and wastewaters. The system will be used for high sample throughput analysis of …
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2023-08-16Automated medium throughput patch-clamp recording unit (Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland_362)
Automated medium throughput patch-clamp recording unit suitable for assessing ion channel biophysics and pharmacology, mechanisms of action of drugs, identify disease-related alterations in ion channels and medium throughput screening of drug candidates is required. The product shall be supplied as independent units or an integrated system. Tenders will not be accepted for only the patch-clamp amplifiers. If you can only supply one of these parts then you must join with a supplier of the other component …
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2023-08-15Automated high throughput multi electrode array (MEA) (Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland_362)
Independent Multi Electrode Array (MEA) recording units suitable for recording neuronal activity from brain slices (both acute and human organotypic slices) and neurons in culture is required. One unit should be a multiwall recording unit and the others should be single well MEA units. Product Requirements • The product shall be supplied as independent units capable of performing simultaneous recording from different samples. • 3 MEA recording chips should be supplied with each unit for testing and …
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2023-07-13Deadline 2025-12-31Medical Bureau for Road Safety - Alcohol Interlock System (University College Dublin UCD)
University College Dublin, on behalf of the Medical Bureau for Road Safety (MBRS) would like to invite prospective organisations to submit their Alcohol Interlock System for testing and approval on behalf of the Department of Transport. Please note this is not a call for competition. We are utilising the etenders platform as a mechanism to inform suppliers that this opportunity is now live. Please see full details in the attached document
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2023-07-03LA2606C – EPA - RFT for the Supply, Delivery, Installation and Commissioning of a Liquid Chromatograph with Triple... (Education Procurement Service EPS)
The EPA, request tenders for the supply, deliver, installation, and commissioning of a Liquid Chromatograph with Triple Quadrupole Mass Spectrometry System for the analysis of compounds in environmental samples (primarily river and lake water). These compounds include plant protection products, biocides, industrial chemicals, and pharmaceuticals to be monitored at levels allowing assessment of compliance with Environmental Quality Standards (EQS), and required Limits of quantitation (LOQs) as defined in …
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2023-06-26LA2411C – University of Galway - RFT for the Supply, Delivery, Installation, and Commissioning of a Multimaterial... (Education Procurement Service EPS)
Tenders are sought by the library-based makerspace, University of Galway, for the Supply, Delivery, Installation, and Commissioning Bench top droplet-based printing system capable of printing in XY plane. Multimaterial functionality. Integrated drop watching capability. Mechanical drop formation and dispensing. Enclosed system. The system must be capable of taking a design from a computer (CAD) and to translate this into a computer aided manufacturing (CAM) functionality to produce print patterns. The …
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2023-06-23LA2531M – DAFM - RFT for the Supply, Delivery, Installation and Commissioning of a Gas Chromatography GC system with... (Education Procurement Service EPS)
Tenders are sought for the Supply, Delivery, Installation and Commissioning of a Gas Chromatography (GC) system with integrated FID and Single Quadrupole MS detector for the Department of Agriculture, Food, and the Marine. The system consist of the following: • Autosampler • Inlets • Programmable Column Oven • Detector 1 (FID) • Detector 2 (Single Quad MS) • Capable of taking carrier gases He, N2 or H2 • Full Electronic pneumatics control • Full health and safety protection in the event of gas leaks. • …
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2023-06-22LA2589C – ATU Sligo - RFT for the Supply, Delivery, Installation and Calibration of Metal 3D Printing Equipment (Education Procurement Service EPS)
Tenders are sought for the supply, delivery, installation, and calibration of Metal 3D printing Equipment and required ancillaries, including the procurement of a metal 3D printer with a wet/dry vacuum cleaner, wet separator, PPE, and materials starter kit. This cell must comply with all relevant safety standards and be able to 3D print using a range of engineering metallic materials. Details of the desired equipment for the Metal 3D printing cell are laid out below. Suppliers MUST provide all …
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2023-06-13LA2522C – Request for Tenders under Open (National) Procedure for the Supply, Deliver, Installation, and... (Education Procurement Service EPS)
Tenders are sought for the supply, delivery, installation, and commissioning of an Arbitrary Waveform Generator. The scope of this tender is to purchase a fast Arbitrary Waveform Generator, which can be synchronized with an external trigger signal, with sufficient volts channels (at least 4 channels), with a voltage range (5 Volts) to drive appropriately our laboratory equipment, and with a maximum sample rate greater or equal 6GS/s. The system should be capable to generate signals of single ended output …
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2023-05-18LA2575C University of Galway- RFT for a Spinning Disk Confocal Microscope for Live-Cell Imaging (Education Procurement Service (EPS))
University of Galway request the supply of a Spinning Disk Confocal Microscope for Live-Cell Imaging for use in a biomaterials, medical device, and tissue engineering lab. The principal purpose of the instrument is to enable high resolution confocal imaging of fixed and live biological samples stained with fluorescent tags. The instrument must be capable of multi-channel fluorescent imaging (405nm, 488nm, 561nm, and 638nm wavelengths). The instrument must have an incubation chamber for maintaining live …
View the procurement » Mentioned suppliers:Andor Technology
2023-04-17LA2541C- Maynooth University- RFT for an Acoustic Liquid Handling System (Education Procurement Service (EPS))
Tenders are sought by Maynooth University for the Supply of an Acoustic Liquid Handling System capable of performing rapid mixing of tiny volumes down to 25 nL, with high accuracy and precision from a variety of source plates to a variety of destination plates (typically 96, 384, 1536-well plates). The instrument should use acoustic technology (for accuracy and to minimise use of single-use/disposable plastics) and capabilities as laid out in the requirements tables of this document. This instrument will …
View the procurement » Mentioned suppliers:Labplan Ltd
2023-04-12LA2365C UCD RFT for the Supply of a Bio Atomic Force Microscope (Education Procurement Service (EPS))
Tenders are sought for the supply, delivery, installation, commissioning and calibration of a brand-new state-of-the-art research-grade fully tip-scanning Bio Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) system for the School of Physics, University College Dublin (UCD) to be integrated in a research-grade inverted optical microscope to perform simultaneous imaging (brightfield, fluorescence) and AFM microscopy/force spectroscopy in both air and liquid environments.
View the procurement » Mentioned suppliers:Nanosurf GmbH
2023-03-08LA2441C - SETU Waterford - RFT for the Supply of a High-Energy X-Ray Computed Tomography System (Education Procurement Service (EPS))
Tenders are sought for the supply, delivery and installation of a High Energy X-ray Computed Tomography System. The new equipment will be capable of higher resolution and also dealing with larger overall sample sizes. It would represent a solution that is not currently available within Ireland and which enables progress within many fields and applications: aerospace components, metal additive manufacturing, EV batteries. A primary mini-focus, cone beam, at least 450kV x-ray source to facilitate large, …
View the procurement » Mentioned suppliers:diondo GmbH
2022-11-23Supply, Delivery, Installation, Maintenance of Crosslinker and balances for Forensic Science Ireland (Forensic Science Ireland)
Forensic Science Ireland, requires the Supply, Delivery, Installation, Maintenance of 16 UV Cross Linkers for eliminating PCR nucleic acid contamination for Forensic Science Ireland, Backweston Science Campus, Celbridge, Co. Kildare and
Supply, Delivery, Installation, Maintenance of
• FSI balances (5x top pan & 8 Analytical/Fine) and 13 x printers as follows
PAD = Require 1 Top pan & 1 Analytical, two printers total.
FP = Require 1 Top pan, one printer.
DNA = Require 1 Top pan & 1 Analytical.
CAD …
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2022-11-21HASS/HALT Environmental Testing Chamber (Dundalk Institute of Technology)
Essential Technical Criteria of the HASS/HALT Environmental Testing Chamber include: • Large vibrating table with suitably threaded holes for fixing test pieces (typically 36” by 36”). • Six degrees of freedom vibration to allow for random vibration. • Table capacity of minimum 200kg. • Vibration rate up to 60gRMS. • Vibration table should be fully accessible. • A minimum of 2 windows for inspection. • At least one access port for wiring, piping, etc. • Heating system is typically electric. • Cooling …
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2022-08-23NUI Galway - RFT for the Supply of a Thermal-mechanical Physical Simulation System (Education Procurement Service (EPS))
National University of Ireland, Galway requires the Supply, Delivery and Installation of High-performance Materials Thermal-mechanical Physical Simulation System for Process-Structure-Property-Performance Characterisation in Advanced Manufacturing (IMPPACT). The System MUST be a complete dynamic testing system that can be used replicate a variety of thermomechanical processes of materials corresponding to the related material processing and testing.
View the procurement » Mentioned suppliers:DSI Europe GmbH
2022-08-22UCD RFT for the Provision of Next Generation Sequencer (NGS) (Education Procurement Service (EPS))
The UCD Conway Genomics Core Facility requires the provision and installation of a high throughput, benchtop, sequencer capable of massively parallel and deep sequencing of nucleic acids (e.g. Next Generation Sequencer (NGS). The Instrument should be capable of supporting a wide range of Sequencing based applications currently offered by the Genomics Core including, Small Whole Genome, Exome, Transcriptomics, Epigenetics and Single Cell. In particular, the system should be compatible with 10 X Genomics …
View the procurement » Mentioned suppliers:Illumina Cambridge Ltd
2022-07-18LA2181C UL RFT Provision of Biobased fibres processing pilot line (Education Procurement Service (EPS))
Tenders are sought for the supply, delivery, installation and calibration of an biobased fibres processing pilot line to facilitate the understanding and manufacture of composites materials. The biobased fibres processing pilot line will consist of a pilot scale melt spinning line, a lab scale wet spinning line, an oxidative heat treatment furnace, a high temperature and an inert atmosphere heat treatment furnace. This equipment will be placed in the School of Engineering of the University of Limerick …
View the procurement » Mentioned suppliers:Dienes Apparatebau GmbH
2022-03-29Request for tenders for the supply, delivery and installation of Engineering Laboratory Equipment in IT Sligo (ITSLIGO)
The Institute of Technology Sligo (IT Sligo) is seeking to procure new laboratory equipment, for educational purposes for the Faculty of Engineering and Design in the fields of Hydraulic Engineering, Wind and Hydro Energy, Thermodynamics, and Fluid Mechanics. This Equipment will be used for training, from novice to expert level. Therefore, it must be easy to use, strongly made, and capable of withstanding rough handling and heavy-duty use. The build quality should provide years of excellent service, with …
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2022-03-28LA1943C_RFT for the Provision of Laboratory Equipment (2 Lots) (Education Procurement Service (EPS))
Tenders are sought for the provision of a DNA Sequencer and a Robotic Liquid Handler. Both will be housed in the Next Generation Sequencing Facility in Moorepark. Until now, DNA sequencing undertaken at the Irish NGS Centre has focused on the identification and characterisation of gut and food microorganisms important to health and disease (genomics/metagenomics). The new DNA sequencer will not only support the existing sequencing equipment, but will expand the facilities’ current capabilities by …
View the procurement » Mentioned suppliers:Illumina Cambridge LtdLabplan Ltd
2022-02-14HASS/HALT Environmental Chamber (Dundalk Institute of Technology)
HASS/HALT Environmental Testing Chamber
Essential Technical Criteria of the HASS/HALT Environmental Testing Chamber include:
• Large vibrating table with suitably threaded holes for fixing test pieces.
• Six degrees of freedom vibration to allow for random vibration.
• Table capacity of minimum 200kg.
• Vibration rate up to 60gRMS.
• Vibration table should be fully accessible.
• A minimum of 2 windows for inspection.
• At least one access port for wiring, piping, etc.
• Heating system is typically …
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