Official UK procurement notice
Procurement of a Multi-purpose Confocal Imaging System
Authority: University of Bristol (Education)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNote: This tender process will be governed by the internal Procurement Policy of the University of Bristol. For the avoidance of doubt, for the purposes of this procurement, the University of Bristol is not a Contracting Authority for the purposes of the Procurement Act 2023, which will accordingly not apply to this procurement.
The University of Bristol’s Wolfson Bioimaging Facility based in the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences wishes to expand its current suite of fluorescence microscopes (confocal, spinning disk, widefield, lightsheet, multiphoton, TIRF, SMLM, STED, FLIM) to extend capacity and capabilities for live cell, organism and organoid imaging.
The opportunity to expand the Wolfson Bioimaging Facility has arisen following the award of a BBSRC ALERT 24 grant to provide equipment for fast confocal imaging with low photodamage and high sensitivity.
- No preliminary market engagement: This tender process will be governed by the internal Procurement Policy of the University of Bristol. For the avoidance of doubt, for the purposes of this procurement, the University of Bristol is not a Contracting Authority for the purposes of the Procurement Act 2023, which will accordingly not apply to this procurement.
CPV: Checking and testing apparatus · Optical instruments
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Published value£600,000
What it takes to wini
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).
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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).
Published sub-criteria (2)
- Technical: 80%
- Commercial: 20%
Published award criteria (2)
- Technical
- Commercial
- 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
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Closed
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 30 Oct 2025, 18:05 GMT
- Last source update
- 30 Oct 2025, 18:05 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 18 Dec 2025
- Authority reference
Lab-2505-105-PC_3343- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-069906- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area in notice
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05d781Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 1 Dec 2025, 13:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 21 Nov 2025, 17:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
30 Oct 2025 → 15 Jan 2026 · 5 dates- Tender notice published362 days ago30 Oct 2025, 18:05 GMT
- Clarification questions by340 days ago21 Nov 2025, 17:00 GMT
- Submission deadline330 days ago1 Dec 2025, 13:00 GMT
- Award decision expected by312 days ago18 Dec 2025, 23:59 GMT
- Contract starts285 days ago15 Jan 2026
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published30 Oct 2025, 18:05 GMTUK4
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender