Official name: Aarhus Universitet
National registration number: 31119103
Postal address: Nordre Ringgade 1
Town: Aarhus C
NUTS code: DK042 Østjylland
Postal code: 8000
Country: Denmark
Contact person: Ann Sophie Steffensen
E-mail: asst@au.dk
Telephone: +45 23382421
Internet address(es):
Main address: https://www.au.dk/

Body governed by public law

Education

Unique high temperature furnaces

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

Supplies

The Department of Biological and Chemical Engineering at Aarhus University wishes to purchase a unique set of high temperature furnaces. We aim to purchase tube furnaces, three-zone tube furnaces, and a crystal growth (Bridgeman-style) furnace that will allow us to synthesize ionic, intermetallic as well as inorganic-organic hybrid compounds and grow high-quality crystals of these.

This contract is divided into lots: no

Value excluding VAT: 105 000.00 EUR

NUTS code: DK042 Østjylland

Research problem: In order to establish the structure as well as structure-property relationships of advanced materials, the synthesis of novel materials and growth of crystals of sufficient quality for diffraction analysis (X-ray and neutron) is important. Furthermore, it is important to grow sufficiently large crystals, so that properties such as magnetization or electric or thermal transport or optical properties can be measured along specific directions of a crystal. This requires elaborate and sophisticated temperature programs and control, in time and space. For that reason we need a set of custom made furnaces, such as

• tube furnaces, which are mainly used for the materials synthesis and crystal growth with controlled temperature programs in time. Here a set of high as well as medium temperature furnaces are needed;

• three-zoned furnaces for materials synthesis through chemical transport and controlled growth of crystals with a time and temperature profile;

• a crystal growth furnace for extremely precise control of crystal growth, particularly in time, but also space which allows to grow larger crystalline specimen for property determination.

All furnaces have to meet specific requirements with respect to their dimensions (tube length and diameter) to match with customized sample environments.

Options: no

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

Negotiated procedure without prior publication

Explanation:

A few suppliers on the market offer some of the furnaces specified above, however HTM Reetz is the only commercial supplier that can deliver all of the furnaces. Additionally, only HTM Reetz can customize the lengths, diameter of the tubes in the tube furnaces as well as the heating zones. 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

06/07/2023

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

Official name: HTM Reetz GhbH
Town: Berlin
NUTS code: DE Deutschland
Country: Germany

The contractor/concessionaire will be an SME: no

Total value of the contract/lot/concession: 105 000.00 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

06/07/2023