NUIG/CON238/12: Ultra & Conventional High Performance Liquid Chromatography Systems

National University of Ireland, Galway (NUI Galway)

This tender is for the purchase of the following equipment for the School of Chemistry at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Lot 1: An Ultra High Performance Liquid Chromatography - Mass Spectrometry (UHPLC-MS) System for Natural Product Chemistry. Lot 2: A Conventional High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) System for Natural Product Purification. Please see tender documentation for full details.
NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the eTenders Web Site at http://www.etenders.gov.ie/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=422637. />The awarding authority has indicated that it will accept electronic responses to this notice via a 'Tender Submission Postbox' facility. Further details of this facility are available at http://www.etenders.gov.ie/PostBox/Postbox_Explain.aspx?ID=422637. />Suppliers are advised to allow adequate time for uploading documents and to dispatch the electronic response well in advance of the closing time to avoid any last minute problems. The postbox closes precisely at the time stated.

Deadline

The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2012-06-06. The procurement was published on 2012-05-02.

Suppliers

The following suppliers are mentioned in award decisions or other procurement documents:

• Agilent Technologies

Who?

• National University of Ireland, Galway (NUI Galway)

What?

• Spectrometers › Mass spectrometer

Where?

• Éire/Ireland

Procurement history

Date	Document
2012-05-02	Contract notice
2012-09-18	Contract award notice

Contract notice (2012-05-02)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)
Quantity or scope: As per tender documentation.
Notice metadata
Original language: English 🗣️
Document type: Contract notice
Nature of contract: Supplies
Regulation: European Union, with participation of GPA countries
Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
Code: Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses) 📦

Procedure
Procedure type: Open procedure
Type of bid: Submission for one or more lots
Award criteria
The most economic tender

Contracting authority
Identity
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Awarding authority type: Body governed by public law
Awarding authority name: National University of Ireland, Galway (NUI Galway)
Postal address: University Road
Postal town: Galway
Contact
Internet address: http://www.nuigalway.ie 🌏
E-mail: procure@nuigalway.ie 📧
Phone: +353 91493970 📞
Fax: +353 91494515 📠

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2012-05-02 📅
Submission deadline: 2012-06-06 📅
Publication date: 2012-05-05 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2012/S 87-142930
Refers to notice: 2011/S 224-363444
OJ-S issue: 87
Additional information

— NUIG/CON238/12 Ultra & Conventional High Performance Liquid Chromagraphy Systems information and documentation is available to download on the etenders website: www.etenders.gov.ie. On the relevant web page, please record your interest and follow site instructions to access tender documentation. If you have not already registered, you will be required to do so before accessing tender documentation. Registration is free of charge, — NUI Galway will not accept responsibility for information relayed (or not relayed) via third parties. If the documentation is in any way altered or edited, the subsequent submission may be deemed inadmissible, — Please use reference no. NUIG/CON238/12 on all correspondence relating to this tender, — Closing date for receipt of queries is Wednesday, 30.5.2012, — Closing date for receipt of tender submissions is 9:30 hrs on Wednesday, 6.6.2012, — Should there be any changes to the proposed funding, the contracting authority reserves the right not to continue with the proposed purchase, or to alter requirements in line with the availability of funding, — NUI Galway will not reimburse any costs incurred in either completing the application, attending interview or preparation of tender submissions, — The lowest or indeed any tender need not necessarily be accepted, — Due to resourcing constraints, NUI Galway will not be offering individual debriefing meetings to unsuccessful bidders. (ET Ref:422637).

Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:

NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the eTenders Web Site at http://www.etenders.gov.ie/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=422637.

The awarding authority has indicated that it will accept electronic responses to this notice via a 'Tender Submission Postbox' facility. Further details of this facility are available at http://www.etenders.gov.ie/PostBox/Postbox_Explain.aspx?ID=422637.

Suppliers are advised to allow adequate time for uploading documents and to dispatch the electronic response well in advance of the closing time to avoid any last minute problems. The postbox closes precisely at the time stated.

Lot number: 1
Title of the lot: An Ultra High Performance Liquid Chromatography - Mass Spectrometry (UHPLC-MS) System for Natural Product Chemistry
Short description:

A robust, ultra fast and ultra high performance bench-top UHPLC-MS system to be used for analysis of natural products in food, plant, marine invertebrate and microorganism extracts. The equipment will be primarily used in marine-natural-product drug discovery for: Structure determination, Compound identification/dereplication, Profiling/fingerprinting, Qualitative & Quantitative natural product analyses, Purity/Impurity determination, Metabolomics, protein/peptide and sugar analyses.

Lot number: 2
Title of the lot: Conventional High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) System for Natural Product Purification
Short description:

A robust, versatile semi-preparative high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) equipment coupled to a diode array detector (DAD) to be used for purification of natural products from food, plant, marine invertebrate and microorganism extracts. An interface to an evaporative light scattering detector (ELSD) is also foreseen.

Reference number: NUIG/CON238/12
Place of performance
Main site or place of performance: Galway.

Legal, economic, financial and technical information
Conditions for participation
Suitability to pursue the professional activity: As per tender documentation.
Economic and financial standing: As per tender documentation.
Minimum level(s) of standards: As per tender documentation.
Technical and professional ability: As per tender documentation.

Procedure
Languages
Language: English 🗣️

Contracting authority
Contact
Contact point: Procurement & Contracts Manager
Address of the buyer profile: http://www.etenders.gov.ie/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA01718 🌏

Reference
Dates
Publication date: 2011-11-17 📅
Identifiers
Reference number attributed by the contracting authority: NUIG/CON238/12
Notice number in the OJ S: 2011/S 224-363444
Additional information

— NUI Galway will not accept responsibility for information relayed (or not relayed) via third parties. If the documentation is in any way altered or edited, the subsequent submission may be deemed inadmissible,

— Please use reference no. NUIG/CON238/12 on all correspondence relating to this tender,

— Closing date for receipt of queries is Wednesday, 30.5.2012,

— Closing date for receipt of tender submissions is 9:30 hrs on Wednesday, 6.6.2012,

— Should there be any changes to the proposed funding, the contracting authority reserves the right not to continue with the proposed purchase, or to alter requirements in line with the availability of funding,

— NUI Galway will not reimburse any costs incurred in either completing the application, attending interview or preparation of tender submissions,

— The lowest or indeed any tender need not necessarily be accepted,

— Due to resourcing constraints, NUI Galway will not be offering individual debriefing meetings to unsuccessful bidders.

(ET Ref:422637).

Source: OJS 2012/S 087-142930 (2012-05-02)

Contract award notice (2012-09-18)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Total value of the procurement: 360 000 💰
Notice metadata
Document type: Contract award notice

Procedure
Type of bid: Not applicable

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2012-09-18 📅
Publication date: 2012-09-21 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2012/S 182-298076
Refers to notice: 2012/S 87-142930
OJ-S issue: 182
Additional information
(ET Ref:505692).

Procedure
Award criteria
Criterion: 1. Technical merit of proposed equipment (3500)
2. Technical merit of delivery, commissioning and training (2000)
3. Technical merit of warranty terms (1500)
4. Ultimate cost (3000)

Award of contract

1️⃣
Date of contract conclusion: 2012-09-07 📅
Name: Agilent Technologies
Postal address: Bracken Court, Bracken Road, Sandyford Ind Estate
Postal town: Dublin
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Internet address: www.agilent.com 🌏

2️⃣
Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 3
Source: OJS 2012/S 182-298076 (2012-09-18)

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