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Published 5 Jul 2023, 15:26 BST

Official UK procurement notice

731 - Real-Time Four-Channel Oscilloscope Supply & Installation

Official notice

Authority: ASTON UNIVERSITY (Education)

GoodsOpen procedure
Published estimate£400,000exc. VAT20% above published estimate
Submissions closed 7 Aug 2023awarded 11 Sept 2023
Awarded to Keysight Technologies UK Limited

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The College of Engineering and Physical Sciences is looking to purchase a real time four-channel oscilloscope

This system must

  • provide a sampling rate of 160GSa/s or higher per channel
  • provide analogue bandwidth exceeding 50 GHz
  • must provide better than 4.8 bit ENoB at all frequencies up to at least 50GHz

CPV: Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1AwardedPublished value£400,000
Delivery: West Midlands
Variant bids: not allowed

What it takes to win
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How this buyer will score bids.

The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).

Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add more
How bids were scored
Quality: 80%Price: 20%
Published award criteria (2)
  • Quality: 80
  • Price: 20
What this means for your bid
  • Price carries 20 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 2 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.

Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Procedure method
Open procedure
Legal basis
CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
Procurement category
Goods
Notice status
Awarded
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
No (one-off requirement)
First published
5 Jul 2023, 15:26 BST
Last source update
10 Oct 2023, 13:31 BST
Award evaluation window
7 Aug 2023 – …
Authority reference
DN677935
FTS notice number
2023/S 000-029822
Classification (CPV)
Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)
Delivery area
West Midlands (UKG31)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-03df0f Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Run through: ProContract (Due North) · Who buys & how to bid on ProContract
Supplier login requiredLanguage: EN
Access & registration note: Free · short registration with manual review; public opportunity list
Submission deadline
7 Aug 2023, 12:00 BST
Submission channel
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Accepted languages
en
Bids opened
7 Aug 2023, 12:05 BST
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release

Timeline

7 Aug 2023 → 10 Oct 2023 · 3 dates
  1. Submission deadline
    7 Aug 2023, 12:00 BST
  2. Bids opened
    7 Aug 2023, 12:05 BST
  3. Notice published
    10 Oct 2023, 13:31 BST

Notice history

1 event · 2 releases on Find a Tender
  1. Status changed to complete
    10 Oct 2023, 13:31 BST

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Awards 1
Awarded value £480,0001 contract exc. VAT
Bids received 2
Contracts signed 1latest 11 Sept 2023
Awarded toValueDateStatus
Keysight Technologies UK Limited£480,000 †—Awarded

Contracts

Bid statistics published by the authority

BidsSMEVCSEValid bid range
2bids———

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Aston University

Contracting authorityEducationBody governed by public lawEducation Aston Triangle, Birmingham, West Midlands, B4 7ETContact name, email, phone Published organisation website ↗

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.