Fakta om udbudet

EU-nr

2020/S 213-521819

Offentliggjort

02.11.2020

Udbudstype

Udbud med forhandling uden forudgående offentliggørelse

Udbyder

Aarhus Universitet

Vindere

(02.11.2020)
Bruker Nordic AB
Kista

FTIR Microscope

Aarhus Universitet

Voluntary ex ante transparency notice

Supplies

Legal Basis:

Directive 2014/24/EU

Section I: Contracting authority/entity

I.1) Name and addresses

Official name: Aarhus Universitet
National registration number: 311 19 103
Postal address: Trøjborgvej 82-84
Town: Aarhus C
NUTS code: DK DANMARK
Postal code: 8000
Country: Denmark
Contact person: Martin Bolet
E-mail: udbud@au.dk
Telephone: +45 60202600
Internet address(es):
Main address: www.au.dk

I.4) Type of the contracting authority

Body governed by public law

I.5) Main activity

Education

Section II: Object

II.1) Scope of the procurement

II.1.1) Title:

FTIR Microscope

Reference number: 2020-0178784

II.1.2) Main CPV code

38000000 Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)

II.1.3) Type of contract

Supplies

II.1.4) Short description:

Aarhus University wishes to buy a FTIR microscope that can operate inside a glovebox for studying mechanically exfoliated 2D materials. The aim of the research is to prepare hybrid systems of vertically stacked layers and explore their stability towards exposure to various gasses under controlled environment.

II.1.6) Information about lots

This contract is divided into lots: no

II.1.7) Total value of the procurement (excluding VAT)

Value excluding VAT: 630 000.00 DKK

II.2) Description

II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)

33000000 Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care products

II.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS code: DK042 Østjylland

Main site or place of performance:

Aarhus.

II.2.4) Description of the procurement:

2D materials and their heterostructures have demonstrated potential for a wide variety of applications in the field of sensors, optoelectronics, thermoelectrics, flexible and printed electronics, to name a few. However, most of the current research development is still limited to laboratory-level experiments on mechanically exfoliated flakes with spatial dimensions of the order of few tens of micrometers (m). The ability to perform chemical analysis, such as Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) on the microscopic scale is crucial for the understanding and application of these materials, giving us information about e.g. the quality of interfaces and how contaminants affect expected interlayer interactions. To avoid any unexpected contamination of the samples, the spectroscopic characterization will be performed inside a glovebox under the well-controlled environment.

The Bruker is the only commercial supplier on the market at the moment that can deliver a compact standalone FTIR microscope operating in the glovebox with the sufficiently high lateral resolution, but also fulfilling all critical parameters listed below:

1) The FTIR microscope should provide a pixel resolution of at least 1.25 μm/pixel in ATR-mode.

2) The instrument must be a stand-alone FTIR microscope with an integrated FTIR spectrometer. No FTIR microscope coupled to an external FTIR spectrometer will be accepted, due to size limitation. The footprint of the FTIR Microscope should be very compact.

3) As the system will be placed in a glovebox with either Ar or N2 atmosphere. Safety regulations forbid any system containing HeNe-lasers.

4) The FTIR microscope must be fully motorized for an easy performance inside the glovebox. In detail, that would be the following:

(a) motorized ATR crystal,

(b) motorized transparent knife-edge aperture,

(d) motorized stage,

(e) motorized z-drive,

(f) motorized change from IR and Vis mode,

(g) motorized change of NA between IR and Vis mode;

5) The FTIR microscope must be equipped with TE- or (optionally) LN2 — cooled MCT detector.

6) The FTIR microscope must be upgradable to be used with the second detector detector that allows true imaging, meaning that all pixels of an IR image are acquired simultaneously. Any line array is not acceptable.

7) The microscope must be able to perform fast imaging measurements with a speed of at least 500 spectra/second and still maintain the full pixel resolution of 1.25 μm in ATR mode as well as a spectral resolution of at least 4 cm-1.

8) The objective of the FTIR microscope should include a motorized ATR crystal to accomplish fully automated measurements in ATR mode. Any slide-on ATR approach is not acceptable

9) The working distance of the objective must be higher than 25 mm. Samples with a thickness of at least 35 mm should be measurable with the FTIR microscope without the need to adapt the hardware.

10) Each measurement channel of the microscope must individually be calibrated to guarantee highest wavenumber accuracy. For the imaging detectors each detector pixel must be individually calibrated to guarantee consistent wavenumber accuracy of the spectral data within the measured chemical image.

II.2.5) Award criteria

Price

II.2.11) Information about options

Options: no

II.2.13) Information about European Union funds

The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: no

II.2.14) Additional information

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1) Description

IV.1.1) Type of procedure

Negotiated procedure without prior publication

The works, supplies or services can be provided only by a particular economic operator for the following reason:
- absence of competition for technical reasons

Explanation:

A few suppliers on the market offer FTIR microscope that fulfil some portion of the requirements specified above, however Bruker is the only commercial supplier that can deliver a fully motorized FTIR microscope with a small footprint and fulfilling all the necessary requirements for our research.

IV.1.3) Information about framework agreement

IV.1.8) Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: yes

IV.2) Administrative information

Section V: Award of contract/concession

V.2) Award of contract/concession

V.2.1) Date of contract award decision:

28/10/2020

V.2.2) Information about tenders

The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators: no

V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor/concessionaire

Official name: Bruker Nordic AB
Town: Kista
NUTS code: SE SVERIGE
Country: Sweden

The contractor/concessionaire will be an SME: no

V.2.4) Information on value of the contract/lot/concession (excluding VAT)

Total value of the contract/lot/concession: 630 000.00 DKK

V.2.5) Information about subcontracting

Section VI: Complementary information

VI.3) Additional information:

VI.4) Procedures for review

VI.4.1) Review body

Official name: Klagenævnet for udbud Complaints Board for Public Procurement
Postal address: Toldboden 2
Town: Viborg
Postal code: 8800
Country: Denmark
E-mail: klfu@naevneneshus.dk
Telephone: +45 72405708
Internet address: https://erhvervsstyrelsen.dk/klagenaevnet-for-udbud

VI.4.3) Review procedure

Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures:

Please contact Aarhus University, if you have a comment about this notice — udbud@au.dk

Following the notification, a standstill period of 10 calendar days will be held in accordance to paragraph 3 of Act No 593 of 2 June 2016 on the Danish Act on the Complaints Board for public Procurement. This implies that the contracting authority cannot sign the contract with the winning tenderer before the standstill period has expired.

In case of complaints about tenders or decisions, e.g. award of contracts covered by Section II or III in the Danish Public Procurement Act must be submitted to the Complaints Board for Public Procurement (Klagenævnet for udbud) within 45 calendar days from the day after the contractor published a notice in the Official Journal on the conclusion of a contract. At the latest concurrently with submission of an appeal to the Complaints Board for Public Procurement, the complainant must inform the contracting authority of the alleged infringement, and whether the appeal is to be referred to the board.

VI.4.4) Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained

Official name: Konkurrence- og Forbrugerstyrelsen
Postal address: Carl Jacobsens Vej 35
Town: Valby
Postal code: 2500
Country: Denmark
E-mail: kfst@kfst.dk
Telephone: +45 4171500

VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice:

28/10/2020