2024-0750124 - Physical Property Measurement System

1.1.

Buyer

Official name : Aarhus Universitet

Email : asst@au.dk

Legal type of the buyer : Body governed by public law

Activity of the contracting authority : Education

2.1.

Procedure

Title : 2024-0750124 - Physical Property Measurement System

Description : Purchase of a Physical Property Measurement System (PPMS)

Procedure identifier : 17d755a4-9264-4daa-ae3a-7680645324a7

Previous notice : d0266ff6-abd9-41eb-9122-39e638c23421-01

Internal identifier : 2024-0750124

Type of procedure : Negotiated without prior call for competition

2.1.1.

Purpose

Main nature of the contract : Supplies

Main classification ( cpv ): 38000000 Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)

2.1.2.

Place of performance

Country subdivision (NUTS) : Østjylland ( DK042 )

Country : Denmark

2.1.4.

General information

Legal basis :

Directive 2014/24/EU

5.1.

Lot : LOT-0000

Title : 2024-0750124 - Physical Property Measurement System

Description : Purchase of a Physical Property Measurement System (PPMS)

Internal identifier : 2024-0750124

5.1.1.

Purpose

Main nature of the contract : Supplies

Main classification ( cpv ): 38000000 Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)

5.1.2.

Place of performance

Country subdivision (NUTS) : Østjylland ( DK042 )

Country : Denmark

5.1.6.

General information

Procurement Project not financed with EU Funds.

The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) : yes

5.1.10.

Award criteria

Criterion :

Type : Quality

Name : Quality

Description : Quality

Weight (percentage, exact) : 100

5.1.12.

Terms of procurement

Information about review deadlines : 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.

5.1.15.

Techniques

Framework agreement : No framework agreement

Information about the dynamic purchasing system : No dynamic purchase system

Electronic auction : no

5.1.16.

Further information, mediation and review

Review organisation : Klagenævnet for udbud

Organisation providing additional information about the procurement procedure : Aarhus Universitet

Organisation providing offline access to the procurement documents : Aarhus Universitet

Organisation providing more information on the review procedures : Konkurrence- og Forbrugerstyrelsen

Organisation whose budget is used to pay for the contract : Aarhus Universitet

Organisation executing the payment : Aarhus Universitet

Organisation signing the contract : Aarhus Universitet

TED eSender : Mercell Holding ASA

Value of all contracts awarded in this notice : 5 769 970,00 DKK

Direct award :

Justification for direct award : The contract can be provided only by a particular economic operator because of an absence of competition for technical reasons

Other justification : Aarhus University intends to buy a Physical Property Measurement System (PPMS) for research purposes. The instrument will be used for characterization of physical properties of materials in a broad range of research fields. The primary focus will be the capability to carry out measurements at cryogenic temperatures with measurements as a function of temperature, electric field, magnetic DC field strength, and AC frequency and field strength. The system must provide a high degree of control over these parameters and provide a high data density (i.e. continuous measurements with < 10 s integration/ averaging time) while still providing the accuracy, precision, and sensitivity expected of a PPMS system. As temperature is a parameter in all measurements, it is extremely important to have accurate and continuous control over the temperature anywhere from 2 K. or less to room temperature or more. This includes highly accurate temperature measurements; high accuracy, stability, and repeatability of the actual temperature for a given set point; and a high degree of accuracy and control over temperature ramp rates. Some measurements are done at a large series of fixed temperatures while varying other parameters. The system must thus be able to quickly reach a given set point with an accuracy of less than 0.5 K. at room temperature and 20 mK. at 2 K. and maintain that temperature stably. Other measurements will be done by continuously varying the temperature with other parameters fixed. Some features in the data have a very small extent in temperature and/ or are located at an unknown temperature, requiring high data density to adequately resolve these features. We thus require to continuously ramp the temperature, typically at 2 K./ min or less, while continuously recording the measured magnetization with less than 10 s separation. This will be done during both heating and cooling and often for several cycles (such as field cooled and zero-field cooled measurements). Since variations in temperature ramp rate can result in artefacts in the data, the ramp rate must be accurately controlled and extremely stable to prevent erroneous conclusions based on such artefacts. Magnetization measurements, i.e. measurements of magnetic moment as function of applied magnetic field, is another important measurement type. To accurately determine the coercivity and remanent magnetization of ferromagnets, we must be able to slowly ramp the magnetic field while continuously measuring the magnetization. To achieve the required data density of between 0.1 and 1 data points per Oersted, we need to be able to ramp the field at less than 1 Oe/ s for very steep magnetization curves or long integration times for very small samples. This must be possible at any magnetic field, including around O Oe to probe soft ferromagnets for any hysteresis. Magnetic materials for above room temperature applications require measurements at elevated temperatures. The PPMS system should have the capability to facilitate such measurement using an oven option that can collect magnetic data with high accuracy up to 1000 K.. AC magnetization measurements will be used for probing the magnetic relaxation dynamics of coordination complexes with magnetic ions. These measurements are usually conducted as a matrix with a number of AC field strengths and frequencies at a series of frn:ed temperatures. Many complexes of interest exhibit peaks in dissipation in the 500-1000 Hz range, and we must thus be able to use frequencies from 1 Hz to at least 1 kHz. A heat capacity option will be used to probe the ability of a material to store and release thermal energy, which is essential to characterize the intrinsic properties of the material, detect phase transitions and potential of a material for energy storage application. To accurately obtain these parameters, the system must be able to measure the heat capacity as a function of temperature under high vacuum. The system must be able to collect these data with high resolution of ~10 nJ /K at cryogenic temperature. The system should also be able to measure heat capacity of a material with varying magnetic field up to 9 tesla. The electrical resistivity option will be used to probe transport properties of materials through the measurement of conductivity, Hall effect, magnetoresistance as a function of temperature and magnetic field. Characterization of such parameters is essential to <liseover new materials for modem electronic devices. The system should be able to measure electrical resistance of material with extremely high sensitivity within 10 nano-Ohm range with applied current as low as 10 nA. Tue transport properties are evaluated as a function of temperature, frequency of the electric field and magnetic field. Furthermore, characterization transport properties such as De Haas-Van Alpen effect of single crystal require orientation dependent measurement of electrical resistivity for an applied electrical field in a certain direction. For such purpose, the system needs to be equipped with a horizontal rotator option. 1. The company Quantum Design Ine. is the only manufacturer of the PPMS DynaCool Physical Property Measurement System. 2. The company QuantumDesign GmbH is the exclusive distributor of Quantum Design Ine. in Europe. 3. The company QuantumDesign GmbH has carefully trained specialists for the installation and maintenance of all produets of Quantum Design Ine. as its disposal. 4. The PPMS DynaCool and its accessories provide the following unique combination of abilities and functions.

6.1.

Result lot ldentifier : LOT-0000

Winner selection status : At least one winner was chosen.

6.1.2.

Information about winners

Winner :

Official name : Quantum Design GmbH

Tender :

Tender identifier : 2024-0750124 - Physical Property Measurement System

Identifier of lot or group of lots : LOT-0000

Value of the tender : 5 769 970,00 DKK

The tender was ranked : no

Contract information:

Identifier of the contract : 2024-0750124 - Physical Property Measurement System (Quantum Design GmbH)

Date of the conclusion of the contract : 21/11/2024

Organisation signing the contract : Aarhus Universitet

6.1.4.

Statistical information :

Received tenders or requests to participate :

Type of received submissions : Tenders from medium tenderers

Number of tenders or requests to participate received : 1

8.1.

ORG-0001

Official name : Aarhus Universitet

Registration number : ORG-31119103

Postal address : Nordre Ringgade 1

Town : Aarhus C

Postcode : 8000

Country subdivision (NUTS) : Østjylland ( DK042 )

Country : Denmark

Contact point : Ann Sophie Steffensen

Email : asst@au.dk

Telephone : 23382421

Internet address : https://www.au.dk/

Roles of this organisation :

Buyer

Organisation providing additional information about the procurement procedure

Organisation providing offline access to the procurement documents

Organisation signing the contract

Organisation whose budget is used to pay for the contract

Organisation executing the payment

8.1.

ORG-0002

Official name : Klagenævnet for udbud

Registration number : ORG-37795526

Postal address : Toldboden 2

Town : Viborg

Postcode : 8800

Country subdivision (NUTS) : Vestjylland ( DK041 )

Country : Denmark

Contact point : Klagenævnet for udbud

Email : klfu@naevneneshus.dk

Telephone : +45 72405708

Information exchange endpoint (URL) : https://erhvervsstyrelsen.dk/klagenaevnet-for-udbud

Roles of this organisation :

Review organisation

8.1.

ORG-0003

Official name : Konkurrence- og Forbrugerstyrelsen

Registration number : ORG-10294819

Postal address : Carl Jacobsens Vej 35

Town : Valby

Postcode : 2500

Country subdivision (NUTS) : Byen København ( DK011 )

Country : Denmark

Contact point : Konkurrence- og Forbrugerstyrelsen

Email : kfst@kfst.dk

Telephone : +45 41715000

Information exchange endpoint (URL) : https://www.kfst.dk

Roles of this organisation :

Organisation providing more information on the review procedures

8.1.

ORG-0004

Official name : Quantum Design GmbH

Registration number : DE284734472

Town : Pfungstadt

Postcode : 64293

Country subdivision (NUTS) : Darmstadt-Dieburg ( DE716 )

Country : Germany

Email : germany@qd-europe.com

Telephone : +49 6157 80710-0

Roles of this organisation :

Tenderer

Winner of these lots : LOT-0000

8.1.

ORG-0005

Official name : Mercell Holding ASA

Registration number : 980921565

Postal address : Askekroken 11

Town : Oslo

Postcode : 0277

Country subdivision (NUTS) : Oslo ( NO081 )

Country : Norway

Contact point : eSender

Email : publication@mercell.com

Telephone : +47 21018800

Fax : +47 21018801

Internet address : http://mercell.com/

Roles of this organisation :

TED eSender

11.1.

Notice information

Notice identifier/version : ade218d9-4c6f-4e14-bb32-762d6ce40c34 - 01

Form type : Result

Notice type : Contract or concession award notice – standard regime

Notice subtype : 29

Notice dispatch date : 28/11/2024 11:30:32 (UTC)

Notice dispatch date (eSender) : 28/11/2024 12:30:45 (UTC)

Languages in which this notice is officially available : English

11.2.

Publication information

Notice publication number : 730365-2024

OJ S issue number : 233/2024

Publication date : 29/11/2024

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2024-0750124 - Physical Property Measurement System

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