Official name: Syddansk Universitet
National registration number: 29283958
Postal address: Indkøb og Udbud
Town: Odense M
NUTS code: DK Danmark
Postal code: 5230
Country: Denmark
Contact person: Sarah-Kirstine Holm Petersen
E-mail: skho@sdu.dk
Telephone: +45 65504120
Internet address(es):
Main address: https://permalink.mercell.com/196583307.aspx
Address of the buyer profile: http://www.sdu.dk/

Body governed by public law

Education

Ultrasound scanner

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

Supplies

Purchase of an ultrasound scanner. 

This contract is divided into lots: no

Value excluding VAT: 290 138.56 EUR

33112300 Ultrasound scanners

NUTS code: DK Danmark

1)

Purchase of a preclinical ultrasound scanner to study voice production and heart function from very small animal models (zebra fish, songbirds mice) to human. This machine has the following requirements from our research targets:

1. Fast scan times >400 Hz and preferably 800 Hz frame rate to time-resolve vocal fold motion at

100 Hz

2. synchronizable with existing equipment present at the University of Southern Denmark (sound

and electrophysiology recording)

3. High resolution of 30 micron needs an ultrahigh frequency ultrasound probes: up to 70 kHz to

image zebrafish, finch and mouse heart

4. Different probes connected at the same time

5. Photoacoustic capable

6. Mobility: needs to be able to move between rooms

2)

This machine is to our best knowledge the only machine on the market fulfilling all above targets.

- It can scan at frame rates up to 800 Hz.

- Is one of few machines that can be synchronized with external data-acquisition systems through the VADA module.

- This machine is the only machine on the market that can work with probdes ranging from 1 to 71 MHz and can achieve a resolution of 30 µm.

- Allows connecting of three ultrasound probes simultaneously

- Only ultra high frequency ultrasound machine that can be built out with a photoacoustics module

- Unit is mobile and can be carted around

3)

After a wide search it is to our knowlede the only machine on the market that complies to all of the above specification.

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:

Public Procurement Act Section 80, litra 3 and 4 - Only one supplier: The ultrasound scanner can only be supplied by FUJIFILM VisualSonics Inc. because it is the only known commercial supplier of a system with similar specifications. There is an objective and proportionate reason for the establishment of specifications which result in there being only one supplier. The possibility that there are other potential suppliers who could deliver the same has been objectively excluded by market consultations.

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: FUJIFILM VisualSonics Inc.
Town: Toronto,
NUTS code: CA Canada
Country: Canada

The contractor/concessionaire will be an SME: no

Total value of the contract/lot/concession: 290 138.56 EUR

Official name: Klagenævnet for Udbud - Nævnenes Hus
Postal address: Toldboden 2
Town: Viborg
Postal code: 8800
Country: Denmark
E-mail: klfu@naevneneshus.dk
Telephone: +45 72405600
Fax: +45 33307799
Internet address: http://www.naevneneshus.dk

Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures:

Pursuant to the Danish Act on Complaints Board for Public Procurement (act no. 492 of 12.5.2010 with subsequent amendments - available at www.retsinformation.dk), the following time limits for filing a complaint apply: Complaints regarding a candidate not being prequalified must be filed with The Complaints Board for Public Procurement within 20 calendar days starting the day after the contracting authority has sent notification to the candidates involved, cf. § 171 (2) of the Danish Act on Public Procurement (act no. 1564 of 15.12.2015 - available at www.retsinformation.dk) of § 7 (1) of the Danish Act on The Complaints Board for Public Procurement, provided that the notification includes a short account of the relevant reasons for the decision. Other complaints must be filed with the Complaints Board for Public Procurement within 1) 45 calendar days after the contracting authority has published a contract award notice in the Official Journal of the European Unition (with effect from the day following the publication date). 2) 30 calendar days starting the day after the contracting authority has informed the tenderers in question, that the contracting authority has entered into a contract based on a framework agreement through reopening of competition or a dynamic purchasing system, provided that the notification includes a short account of the relevant reasons for the decision. 3) 6 months starting the day after the contracting authority has sent notification to the candidates/tenderers involved that the contracting authority has entered into the framework agreement, cf. § 2 (2) or § 171 (4) of the Act on Public Procurement, provided that the notification included a short account of the relevant reasons for the decision. 4) 20 calendar days starting the day after the contracting authority has published a notice concerning his decision to uphold the contract, cf. § 185 (2) of the Act on Public Procurement. The complainant must inform the contracting authority of the complaint in writing at the latest simultaneously with the lodge of the complaint to The Complaints Board for Public Procurement stating whether the complaint has been lodged in the stand-still period, cf. § 6 (4) of the Act on The Complaints Board for Public Procurement. If the complaint has not been lodged in the stand-still period, the complainant must also state whether it is requested that the appeal is granted delaying effect, cf. § 12 (1) of the said Act. The email of the Complaints Board for Public Procurement is stated in section VI.4.1. The Complaints Board for Public Procurement's own guidance note concerning complaints is available at the internet address stated in section VI.4.1)

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
Fax: +45 41715100
Internet address: http://www.kfst.dk

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