Acquisition of a Zeiss LSM900 with Airyscan2

Section I: Contracting authority/entity

I.1) Name and addresses

Official name: University of Copenhagen
Postal address: Nørregade 10
Town: Copenhagen
NUTS code: DK01
Postal code: 1165
Country: Denmark
Contact person: Mahmut Yüksel
E-mail: Fgn253@ku.dk

Internet address(es):

Main address: www.KU.dk

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:

Acquisition of a Zeiss LSM900 with Airyscan2

II.1.2) Main CPV code

38510000

II.1.3) Type of contract

Supplies

II.1.4) Short description:

Prof Ole Kiehn’s group needs to perform fast super resolution imaging with a confocal microscope in order to image their samples. It will enable them to image large areas of hole brain sections with high resolution and fast.

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: 2 562 408.00 DKK

II.2) Description

II.2.1) Title:

II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)

II.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS code: DK01

II.2.4) Description of the procurement:

Prof Ole Kiehn’s group needs to perform fast super resolution imaging with a confocal microscope in order to image their samples. It will enable them to image large areas of hole brain sections with high resolution and fast. The confocal LSM900 will be equipped with the Airyscan detector, which allows us to image with lower light intensity and higher resolution, which is essential for many of the projects/applications to be performed.

II.2.5) Award criteria

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

Negotiated procedure without prior publication

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:

With the airyscan the LSM900 allows for fast imaging with low photo-bleaching of large fields of view.

The LSM 900 with Airyscan 2 is the only laser scanning confocal microscope that allows us to acquire images with lower laser light intensity and higher resolution. It is a point scanning confocal with super resolution based on pixel reassignment detection technology. This will give an isotropic increase in resolution down 120 nm lateral and 350 nm axial. The new Multiplex mode provides greatly enhanced imaging speed (4x faster) than confocal imaging while providing better resolution and signal to noise. This allows gentle imaging at low laser power for high speed processes and also productive imaging of large fields of view in combination with Tile experiments with enhanced image quality.

US8705172

Method for enhancing the resolution of a microscope during the detection of an illuminated specimen and a microscope for carrying out the method, wherein in a first position, an illumination pattern is generated on the specimen, the resolution of which is preferably within the range of the attainable optical resolution of the microscope or higher, wherein a relative movement, preferably perpendicular to the direction of illumination, from a first into at least one second position of the illumination pattern on the specimen is generated at least once between the detection and the illumination pattern with a step width smaller than the resolution limit of the microscope and detection and storage of the detection signals take place both in the first and in the second position.

EP2825908

High resolution scanning microscopy

Summary excerpt: a microscope for high-resolution scanning microscopy of a sample, with a spatial resolution which, taking account of the imaging scale, is at least twice as high as a full width at half maximum of the diffraction-limited

IV.1.3) Information about framework agreement

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

The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: yes

IV.2) Administrative information

IV.2.1) Previous publication concerning this procedure

Section V: Award of contract/concession

V.2) Award of contract/concession

V.2.1) Date of contract award decision:

03/02/2020

V.2.2) Information about tenders

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

V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor/concessionaire

Official name: Carl Zeiss A/S
Postal address: Bregnerødvej 133
Town: Birkerød
NUTS code: DK
Postal code: 3460
Country: Denmark
E-mail: info.microscopy.dk@zeiss.com
Telephone: +45 70157015

Internet address: www.zeiss.dk

The contractor/concessionaire will be an SME: no

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

Total value of the contract/lot/concession: 2 562 408.00 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

Official name: Danish Public Contracts Appeal Board
Postal address: Nævnenes hus, toldboden 2
Town: Viborg
Postal code: 8800
Country: Denmark
E-mail: NH@naevneneshus.dk
Telephone: +45 72405600

Internet address: www.KLFU.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

VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice:

31/03/2020

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Acquisition of a Zeiss LSM900 with Airyscan2

University of Copenhagen