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: Suheyla Savas
E-mail: schs@au.dk
Telephone: +45 93508667
Internet address(es):
Main address: https://www.au.dk/

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Education

Multi-compound gas analyzer

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

Supplies

Land-CRAFT at Aarhus University, Department of Agroecology wants to buy a high-precision, 9-component trace gas analyzer.

This contract is divided into lots: no

Value excluding VAT: 202 000.00 EUR

NUTS code: DK Danmark

The new Pioneer Center Land-CRAFT is researching opportunities for reducing the environmental footprint of crop production systems, specifically with regards to greenhouse gases (GHG). However, we also consider the emissions of other environmental trace gases, which in various ways contribute to environmental degradation, for example, by

- aerosol formation in the troposphere (NH3 e.g. health risks),

- eutrophication of ecosystems due to nitrogen (N)-deposition (NH3, NO/ NO2 e.g. loss of biodiversity, increased emissions of GHGs from soils),

- tropospheric O3 formation (NO/NO2, CO tropospheric O3 is a strong oxidant harming not only human health but also plants, e.g. by destroying membranes. O3 is also a strong GHG).

Fertilized soils are a main source of the mentioned trace gases (NH3/ NO/ NO2/ N2O/ CO2/ CO). Some of these trace gases, namely NO and NO2, do react rapidly in the atmosphere and are key substances involved in tropospheric O3 production. Therefore, also O3 concentration in air samples need to be measured (besides that tropospheric O3 is also an important GHG) to obtain the correct concentration of NO/NO2/CO trace gases.

To understand microbial production and consumption processes in the fertilized soils better, Land-CRAFT will run specific laboratory and field measurements, e.g. to parameterize temperature/ moisture/ N availability responses of production and consumption processes, or to quantify the exchange of the mentioned trace gases between soils and the atmosphere in the field.

So far, measurements of the mentioned trace gases have been done with instruments focusing on a single or a few compounds only, such as N2O or CH4/ CO2. However, very recent developments of laser spectrographic instrumentation by the MIRO Analytical AG now allows to measure up to 10 environmental relevant trace gases with one instrument in high time resolution (at least 1Hz, i.e. a time resolution needed for micro-meteorological flux measurements by the Eddy Covariance method) and with the highest precision possible today (unchallenged by other instruments on the market). As Land-CRAFT intends to use such an instrument as well for field measurements, robustness of the instrumentation is essential. This has been shown for MIRO instrumentation by tests run by colleagues at Jülich Research Center, Germany (Prof. Dr. Nicolas Brüggemann).

Land-CRAFT strictly requires the possibility to measure multiple trace gases (all those mentioned above) in highest precision in one common sample gas stream.

The minimum requirements for precision at 1Hz are:

CO (0.5 ppb)

N2O (0.5ppb)

H2O (30 ppm)

NO (0.6 ppb)

NO2 (0.5 ppb)

CH4 (30 ppb)

NH3 (1 ppb)

O3 (3 ppb).

An increase in analysis time (i.e. measurement over a period of 200s) should result in an increase in precision by at least a factor 5.

Price

Options: no

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

Negotiated procedure without prior publication

Explanation:

Prof. Butterbach-Bahl has two decades of experiences in working with trace gas analyzers from various manufacturers (PICARRO, Los Gatos, LICOR, AERODYNE, CAMPBELL Scientific etc.). Generally, the sensitivity and precision of laser spectrographs have strongly increased in the last years and handling of these instruments improved very much in comparison with older versions. Nowadays, laser spectrograph is the standard tool for measuring GHGs and many other trace gases.

The development on the market of laser spectroscopes is followed closely by a few leading institutions in Europe, e.g. EMPA (Switzerland), TNO (Netherlands), KIT, Jülich Research Center and MPI-Jena (Germany) or University of Helsinki (Finland). Colleagues from these institutions are in regular contact to exchange experiences with different instrument suppliers and run cross-comparisons. Based on this network, and as MIRO is the only supplier offering a robust (i.e. can be used for field measurements), high precision, 9-component trace gas analyzer, there is no alternative on the market.

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The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: yes

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

Official name: MIRO Analytical AG
Postal address: Widenholzstrasse 1
Town: Wallisellen
NUTS code: CH Schweiz / Suisse / Svizzera
Postal code: CH-8304
Country: Switzerland

The contractor/concessionaire will be an SME: no

Initial estimated total value of the contract/lot/concession: 202 000.00 EUR

Total value of the contract/lot/concession: 202 000.00 EUR

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

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.

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

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