Purchase of a VNA/PNA Instrument

Section I: Contracting authority

I.1) Name and addresses

Aarhus Universitet
311 19 103
Trøjborgvej 82-84
Aarhus C
8000
Denmark
Contact person: Emilie Halvorsen
Telephone: +45 93508661
E-mail: udbud@au.dk
NUTS code: DK

Internet address(es):

Main address: www.au.dk

I.2) Joint procurement

I.4) Type of the contracting authority

Body governed by public law

I.5) Main activity

Education

Section II: Object

II.1) Scope of the procurement

II.1.1) Title:

Purchase of a VNA/PNA Instrument.

II.1.2) Main CPV code

38000000

II.1.3) Type of contract

Supplies

II.1.4) Short description:

Market coverage regarding Purchase of a VNA/PNA Instrument.

II.1.6) Information about lots

This contract is divided into lots: no

II.1.7) Total value of the procurement (excluding VAT)

Value excluding VAT: 2 369 471.00 DKK

II.2) Description

II.2.1) Title:

II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)

38432000

II.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS code: DK

Main site or place of performance:

Aarhus Universitet, Institut for Ingeniørvidenskab.

Finlandsgade 22.

8200 Aarhus N.

Denmark.

II.2.4) Description of the procurement:

The Wireless Transceivers research group recently established at AU carries out a innovative research programme. The program, among other things, focuses on design, implementation and test of circuits and systems in silicon technology for mm-wave passive radiometric imaging systems for new applications in multi-disciplinary domains such as Bio and Geo Sciences, such as sub-cutaneous cancer detection, climate change observations, solar flares detections. In order to complete their research, the group needs to purchase a specific (could-source based) VNA/PNA Instrument.

II.2.5) Award criteria

Price

II.2.11) Information about options

Options: no

II.2.13) Information about European Union funds

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

II.2.14) Additional information

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1) Description

IV.1.1) Type of procedure

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

The works, supplies or services can be provided only by a particular economic operator for the following reason:
- absence of competition for technical reasons

Explanation:

The PNA-X by Keysight Technologies — is the only VNA/PNA instrument — commercially available that incorporates ultra-low noise receivers, allowing direct NF measurements with the highest accuracy up to the mm-waves, up to the maximum frequency of 50 GHz. Moreover, owing the ultra-low noise receivers, the PNA-X by Keysight Technology allow NF measurements beyond the maximum frequency capability through indirect could-source technique, i.e. the most accurate. In this regard, in the past years Domenico Zito's research group together with Keysight Technology developed for the world-first extension of the cold-source NF measurement technique suitable for the V (50-75 GHz) and W (75-110 GHz) bands (see attached article). The developed cold-source NF methodology is based on the PNA-X (i.e. the sole VNA/PNA instrument with ultra-low noise receivers commercially available) and agile hardware extensions, which allow overcoming the severe limitations and accuracy reductions of the existing techniques for indirect NF measurements on next-generation mm-wave circuits and systems, as those targeted by the research and innovation programme carried out by the Wireless Transceivers research group at AU.

IV.1.3) Information about a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system

IV.1.6) Information about electronic auction

IV.1.8) Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: no

IV.2) Administrative information

IV.2.1) Previous publication concerning this procedure

IV.2.8) Information about termination of dynamic purchasing system

IV.2.9) Information about termination of call for competition in the form of a prior information notice

Section V: Award of contract

Title:

Purchase of a VNA/PNA Instrument

A contract/lot is awarded: yes

V.2) Award of contract

V.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract:

19/04/2017

V.2.2) Information about tenders

Number of tenders received: 1

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

V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor

Keysight Technologies Netherlands B.V.
Amsterdam
Netherlands
NUTS code: NL

The contractor is an SME: no

V.2.4) Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)

Total value of the contract/lot: 2 399 471.00 DKK

V.2.5) Information about subcontracting

Section VI: Complementary information

VI.3) Additional information:

VI.4) Procedures for review

VI.4.1) Review body

Klagenævnet for udbud
Dahlerups Pakhus — Langelinie Allé 17
København Ø
2100
Denmark
Telephone: +45 35291000
E-mail: klfu@erst.dk

VI.4.2) Body responsible for mediation procedures

VI.4.3) Review procedure

VI.4.4) Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained

Konkurrence- og Forbrugerstyrelsen
Carl Jacobsens Vej 35
Valby
2500
Denmark
Telephone: +45 4171500
E-mail: kfst@kfst.dk

VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice:

20/04/2017

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