United Kingdom-Redcar: Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)

Type of document: Invitation to tender
Country: United Kingdom
OJEU Ref: (2017/S 058-108619/EN)
Nature of contract: Supply contract
Procedure: Open procedure
Regulation of procurement: EU – with participation by GPA countries
Type of bid required: Mixed global and partial bid

Contract notice
Supplies
Directive 2004/18/EC
Section I: Contracting authority
I.1) Name addresses and contact point(s):
Cente for Process Innnovation Limited
Wilton Centre, Wilton
Redcar
Postal code: TS10 4RF
United Kingdom
For the attention of: Rosanne Ryott
Phone: +44 1642455340
Email: e-tendering@uk-cpi.com
Internet Address(es):
General address of the contracting authority: www.uk-cpi.com
Electronic access to information: www.uk-cpi.com/tenders
Further information can be obtained from: The above mentioned contact point(s)
Specifications and additional documents (including documents for competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained from: The above mentioned contact point(s)
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: The above mentioned contact point(s)
I.2) Type of the contracting authority:
Body governed by public law
I.3) Main activity:
OTHER: technology development
I.4) Contract award on behalf of other contracting authorities/entities:
The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting authorities: No
Section II: Object of the contract:
II.1) Description:
II.1.1) Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority/entity:
663 — IBB — Equipment for Downstream Processing.
II.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance:
Supplies
Type of supplies contract: Purchase
Nuts code: UKC1
II.1.3) Information about a public contract, a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system (DPS):
The notice involves a public contract
II.1.4) Information on framework agreement:
II.1.5) Short description of the specific contract:
Lot 1: TFF system for lab / small membrane based scale down filter studies
Lot 2: Liquid — liquid bench to separator
Lot 3: Lab scale electro-dialysis equipment
Lot 4: Rotary drum vacuum filtration unit
Lot 5: Small scale chromatography bio-processor skid
Lot 6: High efficiency distillation system
Lot 7: Lab scale filtration equipment Including:
additional pressure vessels
additional top pan balances
additional Lab scale filter housings (e.g. 142 mm Ø)
Pressurised filter housing (filter bomb)
Pressurised recessed chamber filter press
Stirred cell ultra-filtration system
Lot 8:Solid — liquid disc stack centrifuge.
II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 38000000, 42912350, 42113160, 38434540, 38552000, 42514000, 42514300, 42912000, 42910000, 42912100, 38432200
II.1.7) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA):
The contract is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA): YES
II.1.8) Lots:
The contract is divided into lots: Yes. Tenders may be submitted for one or more lots
II.1.9) Information about variants:
Variants will be accepted: YES
II.2) Quantity or scope of the contract:
II.2.1) Total quantity or scope:
This contract is for the supply, installation and commissioning of the equipment specified in the tender documents, including packing, shipping, delivery and training of users. Where applicable, the supply of consumables / spare and replacement parts is also to be included in the scope of this contract.
Estimated value excluding VAT:
Range: between 200 000 and 250 000 GBP
II.2.2) Information about options:
Options:yes
Description of these options:Please see the tender documentation for full details.
II.2.3) Information about renewals:
This contract is subject to renewal: no
II.3) Duration of the contract or time limit for completion:
Duration in months: 18 (from the award of the contract)
Information about lots
Lot No: 1; Lot title: TFF system for lab / small membrane based scale down filter studies
1) Short description: Intended Application:CPI requires a small scale TFF system for process development and defining processing operation conditions / parameters. The equipment will typically be used to process fermentation broths, protein solutions, sugar solutions.The system must be capable of performing micro-filtration (MF), ultra-filtration (UF) and dia filtration (DF) with a wide range of membrane types.
2) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 42912350
3) Quantity or scope:
Scope of service:To supply CPI Industrial Biotechnology and Biorefining (IBB) with a small scale tangential flow filtration (TFF) system which can be used to develop scalable filtration processes.

4) Indication about different date for duration of contract or starting/completion:
5) Additional information about lots:

Lot No: 2; Lot title: Liquid — liquid bench to separator
1) Short description: CPI requires a single stage laboratory scale centrifugal liquid-liquid extractor to evaluate the organic solvent extraction of products from an aqueous solution in a continuous manner.
2) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 38000000,42912000
3) Quantity or scope:
To supply CPI Industrial Biotechnology and Biorefining (IBB) with a Liquid — Liquid bench top separator which can be used to develop scalable extraction processes.

4) Indication about different date for duration of contract or starting/completion:
5) Additional information about lots:

Lot No: 3; Lot title: Lab scale electro-dialysis equipment
1) Short description: Intended Application:— CPI requires a laboratory scale electro dialysis for separation and concentration of small molecules e.g. organic acids, salts, amines, etc from aqueous fermentation broths.— Electrodialysis is an electrochemical process whereby electrically charged particles, ions, are transported from a raw solution (retentate, diluate) into a more concentrated solution (permeate, concentrate) through ion-selective membranes by applying an electric field.
2) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 38000000,31710000
3) Quantity or scope:
To supply CPI Industrial Biotechnology and Biorefining (IBB) with lab scale electro-dialysis equipment which can be used to develop scalable separation processes.

4) Indication about different date for duration of contract or starting/completion:
5) Additional information about lots:

Lot No: 4; Lot title: Rotary drum vacuum filtration unit
1) Short description: CPI requires small scale rotary drum vacuum filtration equipment for the dewatering of solid / liquid slurries to form dry cakes.The equipment will ideally be sized as small scale to quickly select the optimal processing conditions and filtration media / cloth type to enable scale up of industrial processes as well as different type of discharge.
2) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 38000000,42912350
3) Quantity or scope:
To supply CPI Industrial Biotechnology and Biorefining (IBB) with small scale rotary drum vacuum filtration equipment which can be used to develop scalable filtration processes.

4) Indication about different date for duration of contract or starting/completion:
5) Additional information about lots:

Lot No: 5; Lot title: Small scale chromatography bio-processor skid
1) Short description: Intended Application / purpose:— A bench / lab scale chromatography system for the separation of enzymes / proteins, neutral and charged small molecules e.g. organic acids. from process liquid streams arising from fermentation broths.— This system should enable full method development and include the ability to switch between multiple columns, buffers, etc.
2) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 38432200,43133100
3) Quantity or scope:
To supply CPI Industrial Biotechnology and Biorefining (IBB) with a development chromatography system which can be used to develop scalable chromatographic separation processes.

4) Indication about different date for duration of contract or starting/completion:
5) Additional information about lots:

Lot No: 6; Lot title: High efficiency distillation system
1) Short description: Intended Application:— CPI requires a small scale distillation system for the separation of samples of 0.5 to 5 L.— The equipment is intended for lab scale processing evaluations so must be scalable to larger equipment.
2) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 42910000
3) Quantity or scope:
To supply CPI Industrial Biotechnology and Biorefining (IBB) with a small scale distillation.

4) Indication about different date for duration of contract or starting/completion:
5) Additional information about lots:

Lot No: 7; Lot title: Lab scale filtration equipment
1) Short description: Intended Application:—CPI requires a lab based normal flow filtration (dead-end filtration) system to evaluate small surface area filter type (depth and membrane) to enable the scalability and selection of the optimal filter.—Typical liquid filtration applications include, but are not limited to, removal of solids e.g. whole cells, cellular debris, colloids, hemicellulose, cellulose, lignin and insoluble proteins from biological feed streams e.g. fermentation broths, to allow the optimal filter & surface area to be selected for scale-up.
2) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 38000000,42912350
3) Quantity or scope:
To supply CPI Industrial Biotechnology and Biorefining (IBB) with lab scale normal flow filtration (NFF) equipment which can be used to develop scalable filtration processes.

4) Indication about different date for duration of contract or starting/completion:
5) Additional information about lots:

Lot No: 8; Lot title: Solid — liquid disc stack centrifuge
1) Short description: Intended Application:— A sanitary piece of equipment which is capable of separating solid / liquid process streams.— The process stream will typically be fermentation broths from lab / small scale. Organism types would be bacterial e.g. E. coli, Pseudomonas species, yeast species.
2) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 42931100
3) Quantity or scope:
To supply CPI Industrial Biotechnology and Biorefining (IBB) with a small / lab scale disc stack centrifuge which can be used to develop scalable centrifugation processes.

4) Indication about different date for duration of contract or starting/completion:
5) Additional information about lots:

Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1) Conditions relating to the contract:
III.1.1) Deposits and guarantees required:
Please refer to the tender document which can be found at www.uk-cpi.com/tenders
III.1.2) Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions governing them:
Please refer to the tender document which can be found at www.uk-cpi.com/tenders
III.1.3) Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:
Please refer to the tender document which can be found at www.uk-cpi.com/tenders
III.1.4) Other particular conditions:
The performance of the contract is subject to particular conditions: no
III.2) Conditions for participation:
III.2.1) Personal situation of economic operators, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers:
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: Please refer to the tender document which can be found at www.uk-cpi.com/tenders
III.2.2) Economic and financial ability:
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: Please refer to the tender document which can be found at www.uk-cpi.com/tenders
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required: Please refer to the tender document which can be found at www.uk-cpi.com/tenders
III.2.3) Technical capacity
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: Please refer to the tender document which can be found at www.uk-cpi.com/tenders
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required: Please refer to the tender document which can be found at www.uk-cpi.com/tenders
III.2.4) Information about reserved contracts:
III.3) Conditions specific to services contracts:
III.3.1) Information about a particular profession:
Execution of the service is reserved to a particular profession: no

III.3.2) Staff responsible for the execution of the service:
Legal persons should indicate the names and professional qualifications of the staff responsible for the execution of the service: NO
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Type of procedure:
IV.1.1) Type of procedure:
Open
IV.1.2) Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to tender or to participate:
IV.1.3) Reduction of the number of operators during the negotiation or dialogue:
Recourse to staged procedure to gradually reduce the number of solutions to be discussed or tenders to be negotiatedNO
IV.2) Award criteria:
IV.2.1) Award criteria:
IV.2.2) Information about electronic auction:
An electronic auction will be used: no
IV.3) Administrative information:
IV.3.1) File reference number attributed by the contracting authority/entity:
633
IV.3.2) Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract:
No
IV.3.3) Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents or descriptive document:
Payable documents: No
IV.3.4) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate:
24.04.2017 – 12:00
IV.3.5) Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates:
IV.3.6) Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be drawn up:
EN
IV.3.7) Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender:
In days: 90 (from the date stated for receipt of tender)
IV.3.8) Conditions for opening of tenders:
Persons authorised to be present at the opening of tenders: no.

Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1) Information about recurrence:
This is a recurrent procurement: No
VI.2) Information about European Union funds:
The contract is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: Yes
VI.3) Additional information
VI.4) Procedures for appeal:
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice:
22.03.2017