Fakta om udbudet

EU-nr

2022/S 051-132853

Offentliggjort

14.03.2022

Udbudstype

Udbud med forhandling uden forudgående offentliggørelse

Udbyder

Aarhus Universitet

Vindere

(14.03.2022)
Applied Systems Engineering, Inc
Forth Worth, Texas

high-power, long-pulse/high-duty-cycle travelling wave tube

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: 31119103
Postal address: Nordre Ringgade 1
Town: Aarhus C
NUTS code: DK Danmark
Postal code: 8000
Country: Denmark
Contact person: Jens August Aastrup Munch
E-mail: udbud@au.dk
Telephone: +45 93522562
Internet address(es):
Main address: https://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:

high-power, long-pulse/high-duty-cycle travelling wave tube

Reference number: 2022-0349382

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 high-power, long-pulse/high-duty cycle travelling wave tube amplifier (TWT) for X-band pulsed Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) and Dynamic Nuclear Polarization (DNP) NMR spectroscopy. The aim is to build a flexible frontline instrument for systematic design of DNP experiments with high sensitivity and pulsed EPR experiments for accurate electron-electron distance measurements. The goal is to increase performance significantly relative to state-of-the-art methods. The methods developed will be applied in structural biology, materials science, and nanotechnology.

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: 107 000.00 EUR

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:

For development of optimal pulsed EPR and DNP experiments meeting theoretical expectations to sensitivity and information content, we need to build frontline X-band fast-waveform pulsed EPR and DNP instrumentation with fast and highly flexible control of microwave pulses using a fast high-end arbitrary waveform generator (AWG) and strong amplification of long/high-duty-cycle microwave (mw) pulses. The necessary technical requirements for the pulse TWT (travelling wave tube) amplifier should at least fulfil:

- 1-2 kW amplitude

- 8-12 GHz frequency range

- 6% duty cycle

- 0.07 - 100 s pulse width range

- max 0.1 dB amplitude variation, < ±1° pk to pk phase noise.

- max 200 ns input to RF delay, max 15 ns RF rise/fall time

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:

We are building a flexible EPR-DNP instrument based on a well-tested recipe from ETH (published by Doll and Jeschke in Journal of Magnetic Resonance 280, 46-62, 2017) including the use of custom-made software interfacing. We have carefully analyzed the marked in terms of vendors that can provide the desired instrumentation. We have found no other companies than Applied Systems Engineering, Inc that can provide the desired high-power, long pulse/duty-cycle pulse TWT amplifier we need for experiment development on the EPR-DNP instrument.

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:

09/03/2022

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: Applied Systems Engineering, Inc
Town: Forth Worth, Texas
NUTS code: US United States
Country: United States

The contractor/concessionaire will be an SME: yes

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

Total value of the contract/lot/concession: 107 000.00 EUR

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
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

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 41715000
Internet address: www.kfst.dk

VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice:

09/03/2022