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/

Body governed by public law

Education

3D printer - 2022-0473618

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

Supplies

The Department of Biological and Chemical Engineering at Aarhus University wishes to purchase a volumetric 3D bioprinter for the manufacturing of 3D bio-constructs in sterile vials. We aim to purchase a volumetric 3D printer that will allow us to design and manufacture centimeter-scale acellular and cell-laden 3D constructs with various photosensitive bio-materials to study the interactions between cells and their surrounding environment.

This contract is divided into lots: no

Value excluding VAT: 825 874.63 DKK

NUTS code: DK04 Midtjylland

The extracellular environment, notably the geometry and the material content, has been shown to shape the function and growth of cells and organoids. 3D bioprinters have demonstrated potential for studying a wide variety of applications, ranging from personalized medicine to regenerative medicine. However, most 3D bioprinters operate in a layer-by-layer fashion, which limits the printing speed and thus the post-printing viability and function of the cell- or organoid-laden three-dimensional constructs. With the purchased volumetric 3D bioprinter we will study more complex and advanced cell functions than what is currently accessible with existing 3D bio-printers, notably we will study how porous, curved and hollow constructs influence stem cell migration and differentiation. Additionally, we will combine multiple functional biomaterials directly during operation, e.g. for a high-throughput printing of multi-scale vasculatures, intestinal villi and crypt structures, or lymph vessels, for heart muscle regeneration, modeling intestinal epithelium-pathogen interactions or immunological reactions, respectively. These bio-constructs may represent XXX at the cellular scale. Such bio-constructs have potential to be used as organ models for regenerative medicine or drug screening applications.

Above mentioned requirements demand a 3D bioprinter with very specific features and capabilities. In particular, the ability to 3D print in a volumetric and not layer-by-layer manner, the ability to process materials developed by our laboratory with off-the-shelf photo-initiators, the demonstrated high cellular and organoid post-printing viability; the ability to upgrade the 3D printer with additional laser wavelength lines without any major modification to the system are the most important requirements.

Price

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:

Many 3D bioprinter suppliers on the market offer 3D bioprinters that fulfil some portion of the requirements specified above. However, Readily3D SA is the only commercial supplier that can deliver a 3D bioprinter that can operate volumetrically with third-party photosensitive materials, such as the materials developed by our laboratory whilst also having demonstrated a high cellular and organoid viability as well as fulfilling all the other necessary requirements that are important for our research.

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: Readily3D
Town: Lausanne
NUTS code: CH Schweiz / Suisse / Svizzera
Country: Switzerland

The contractor/concessionaire will be an SME: yes

Total value of the contract/lot/concession: 825 874.63 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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