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: aumu@au.dk
Telephone: +45 93522562
Internet address(es):
Main address: https://www.au.dk/

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Liquid handling system - 2022-0441248

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

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We require a robotic liquid handling workstation that efficiently combines with our planned single-cell proteomic platform at Biomedicine, Aarhus University. The sample preparation for single-cell proteomics requires a liquid handling system that can handle and dispense nanoliter level of liquids at high accuracy, user-friendliness and flexibility. Based on our needs and requirements, the system needs to fulfil some certain mandatory requirements.

This contract is divided into lots: no

Value excluding VAT: 886 148.80 DKK

NUTS code: DK042 Østjylland

1. The instrument must use noncontact liquid-handling technology to avoid carryover and cross-contamination especially for our sensitive proteomics analysis

2. The instrument must be able to produce droplet from 8 to 50 nl and make dispenses between 8 nl and 80 µl from a single source, to fit our various sample preparation workflows from extremely small to larger volumes

3. The instrument must have a dead volume of less than 1 µl for aqueous solutions to save on reagents

4. The instrument must have a precision and accuracy of 8% (<100 nl) and 5% (>100 nl) to ensure highly reproducible sample preparation in different volume ranges

5. The instrument must be able to accommodate any type of SBS target plate, including 96-, 384- and 1536-well plates, for any type of single-cell proteomic experiment that we are planning

6. The instrument must have droplet detection function. It must be able to distinguishes between clogged wells, air bubbles and wells running out of source liquids and can automatically re-dispense missed droplets, to ensure highly reproducible dispensing in our high-throughput sample preparation workflow

7. The instrument must be able to tolerate multiple classes of liquids, including at least water and acetonitrile with up to 1% of trifluoroacetic acid, to be compatible with our proteomic sample preparation workflow

8. The instrument must be capable of dispensing from 8 source wells by 8 dispensing channels simultaneously, with up to 100 droplets per second from each channel, resulting in dispensing speed to a 96-well plate in <10 seconds and <30 seconds for a 384-well plate, to ensure fast and efficient sample preparation for our single-cell proteomic experiments

9. The instrument must have high flexibility - it can transfer from any well in the source plate to any well in the receiver plate, with flexibility in the destination plate formats, accommodating custom plate designs (and glass slides), up to deep-well plates (0-50 mm in height), to accommodate any type of configuration we may encounter in our sample preparation workflow

Options: no

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

Award of a contract without prior publication of a call for competition in the Official Journal of the European Union in the cases listed below

Explanation:

After extensive investigation, the only instrument that can fulfill all these mandatory features for our research is the I.DOT system from Dispendix.

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: Dispendix
Town: Stuttgart
NUTS code: DE Deutschland
Country: Germany

The contractor/concessionaire will be an SME: yes

Total value of the contract/lot/concession: 886 148.80 DKK

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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