Contract

Optical Related Equipment Components and Consumables

  • Nottingham Trent University (NTU)

F03: Contract award notice

Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-000673

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-04844c

Published 9 January 2025, 1:46pm



Section one: Contracting authority

one.1) Name and addresses

Nottingham Trent University (NTU)

50 Shakespeare Street

Nottingham

NG1 4FQ

Contact

Sarah Turton

Email

sarah.turton@ntu.ac.uk

Telephone

+44 1158486439

Country

United Kingdom

Region code

UKF - East Midlands (England)

National registration number

GB 277399933

Internet address(es)

Main address

https://www.ntu.ac.uk/

Buyer's address

https://uk.eu-supply.com/ctm/Company/CompanyInformation/Index/128806

one.4) Type of the contracting authority

Body governed by public law

one.5) Main activity

Education


Section two: Object

two.1) Scope of the procurement

two.1.1) Title

Optical Related Equipment Components and Consumables

Reference number

NTU/24/2673/ST

two.1.2) Main CPV code

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

two.1.3) Type of contract

Supplies

two.1.4) Short description

Nottingham Trent University has ongoing requirements for the purchase of optical related equipment components and consumables. The requirement has been split into 10 lots which are listed below. Tenderers may tender for individual lots, or they may tender for all lots as applicable on the framework.

The items have been categorised into the following list of lots; Lot 1: Optical elements Lot 2: Optomechanical devices and components Lot 3: Optical tables, breadboards, and accessories Lot 4: Manual and motorised stages, micrometres, actuators, and positioners Lot 5: Test and calibration targets, reticules, and tools Lot 6: Fibre optics, fibre test instruments, and fibre processing tools Lot 7: Instrumentation Lot 8: Light sources Lot 9: General Accessories, Equipment Components and Consumables Lot 10: Future technologies.

A detailed scope of each lot can be found in the tender documentation.

two.1.6) Information about lots

This contract is divided into lots: Yes

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

Value excluding VAT: £600,000

two.2) Description

two.2.1) Title

Optical Related Equipment Components and Consumables

Lot No

1

two.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)

  • 31000000 - Electrical machinery, apparatus, equipment and consumables; lighting
  • 31131100 - Actuators
  • 31712335 - Optical coupled isolators
  • 31712348 - Laser diodes
  • 32560000 - Fibre-optic materials
  • 32561000 - Fibre-optic connections
  • 32562000 - Optical-fibre cables
  • 38433000 - Spectrometers
  • 38433300 - Spectrum analyser
  • 38519400 - Automated microscope stages
  • 38519600 - Microscope eyepieces, condensers, collectors, tubes, stages and covers
  • 38519650 - Microscope stages
  • 38600000 - Optical instruments
  • 38623000 - Optical filters
  • 38636000 - Specialist optical instruments
  • 38636100 - Lasers

two.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS codes
  • UKF - East Midlands (England)
Main site or place of performance

Nottingham

two.2.4) Description of the procurement

Optical elements which may be kits including but not limited to; lenses, mirrors, filters, beamsplitters, prisms, diffusors, windows, gratings, crystals and liquid crystal devices, lenses and objectives, cells, isolators, collimators, couplers, modulators, antennas, compensators, polarisers, depolarisers, displacers, and rotators, waveplates and beam expanders and associated brackets/mounts/posts/connectors/fittings.

two.2.5) Award criteria

Cost criterion - Name: Pricing (Transparency & Visibility) / Weighting: 10

two.2.11) Information about options

Options: No

two.2.13) Information about European Union Funds

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

two.2) Description

two.2.1) Title

Optomechanical devices and components

Lot No

2

two.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)

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

two.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS codes
  • UKF - East Midlands (England)
Main site or place of performance

Nottingham

two.2.4) Description of the procurement

Optomechanical devices and components, which may be kits of items or motorised elements and would include accessory bolts and fitting and tools for assembly as required: - including but not limited to posts, supports, rails, mounts, clamps, cages, adaptors and brackets, iris, apertures and pinholes, shelves and platforms, choppers, beam scanners, piezo devices, adaptive optics, filter wheels and mounts (adaptors, clamps, ports, mounts, supports, stands and joints), shutters and stages.

two.2.5) Award criteria

Cost criterion - Name: Pricing (Transparency & Visibility) / Weighting: 10

two.2.11) Information about options

Options: No

two.2.13) Information about European Union Funds

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

two.2) Description

two.2.1) Title

Optical tables, breadboards, and accessories

Lot No

3

two.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)

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

two.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS codes
  • UKF - East Midlands (England)
Main site or place of performance

Nottingham

two.2.4) Description of the procurement

Optical tables, breadboards, and accessories, including but not limited to enclosures, feet, handles, shelving, fixtures, and screens/curtains.

two.2.5) Award criteria

Cost criterion - Name: Pricing (Transparency & Visibility) / Weighting: 10

two.2.11) Information about options

Options: No

two.2.13) Information about European Union Funds

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

two.2) Description

two.2.1) Title

Manual and motorised stages, micrometres, actuators, and positioners

Lot No

4

two.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)

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

two.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS codes
  • UKF - East Midlands (England)
Main site or place of performance

Nottingham

two.2.4) Description of the procurement

Manual and motorised stages, micrometres, actuators and positioners as well as the controllers of these components. Including but not limited to; associated base plates, platforms, brackets and adaptors and associated brackets/mounts/posts/connectors/fittings.

two.2.5) Award criteria

Cost criterion - Name: Pricing (Transparency & Visibility) / Weighting: 10

two.2.11) Information about options

Options: No

two.2.13) Information about European Union Funds

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

two.2) Description

two.2.1) Title

Test and calibration targets, reticules, and tools

Lot No

5

two.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)

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

two.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS codes
  • UKF - East Midlands (England)
Main site or place of performance

Nottingham

two.2.4) Description of the procurement

Test and calibration targets, reticules and tools including but not limited to power meters and beam characterisation instruments and associated brackets/mounts/posts/connectors/fittings.

two.2.5) Award criteria

Cost criterion - Name: Pricing (Transparency & Visibility) / Weighting: 10

two.2.11) Information about options

Options: No

two.2.13) Information about European Union Funds

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

two.2) Description

two.2.1) Title

Fibre optics, fibre test instruments, and fibre processing tools

Lot No

6

two.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)

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

two.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS codes
  • UKF - East Midlands (England)
Main site or place of performance

Nottingham

two.2.4) Description of the procurement

Fibre optics including but not limited to fibres and patch cables, fibre collimators, couplers, splitters, combiners, polarisers, circulators, reflectors, isolators, attenuators, filters and terminators. Fibre test instruments such as spectrum analysers, polarimeters and extinction ratio meters. Fibre processing tools including but not limited to strippers, cleaners, cleavers, splicers, glass processors, recoaters and testers, and associated brackets/mounts/posts/connectors/fittings.

two.2.5) Award criteria

Cost criterion - Name: Pricing (Transparency & Visibility) / Weighting: 10

two.2.11) Information about options

Options: No

two.2.13) Information about European Union Funds

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

two.2) Description

two.2.1) Title

Instrumentation

Lot No

7

two.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)

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

two.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS codes
  • UKF - East Midlands (England)
Main site or place of performance

Nottingham

two.2.4) Description of the procurement

Instrumentation including but not limited to spectrometers, interferometers, amplifiers, spectrum and noise analysers, beam profilers, wavefront sensors and auto correctors, and associated brackets/mounts/posts/connectors/fittings.

two.2.5) Award criteria

Cost criterion - Name: Pricing (Transparency & Visibility) / Weighting: 10

two.2.11) Information about options

Options: No

two.2.13) Information about European Union Funds

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

two.2) Description

two.2.1) Title

Light sources

Lot No

8

two.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)

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

two.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS codes
  • UKF - East Midlands (England)
Main site or place of performance

Nottingham

two.2.4) Description of the procurement

Light sources including but not limited to lasers (diodes and other solid state devices such as fibre etc., HeNe and other gasses, tuneable, pulsed, from Thz or Hz frequency and UV to radio frequency) and laser drivers, phase controllers and power modulators, also diodes, lamps and other broadband sources, and associated brackets/mounts/posts/connectors/fittings. Corresponding laser safety glasses should be offered.

two.2.5) Award criteria

Cost criterion - Name: Pricing (Transparency & Visibility) / Weighting: 10

two.2.11) Information about options

Options: No

two.2.13) Information about European Union Funds

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

two.2) Description

two.2.1) Title

General Accessories, Equipment Components and Consumables

Lot No

9

two.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)

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

two.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS codes
  • UKF - East Midlands (England)
Main site or place of performance

Nottingham

two.2.4) Description of the procurement

General accessories, equipment components and consumables related to optical equipment.

two.2.5) Award criteria

Cost criterion - Name: Pricing (Transparency & Visibility) / Weighting: 10

two.2.11) Information about options

Options: No

two.2.13) Information about European Union Funds

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

two.2) Description

two.2.1) Title

Future technologies

Lot No

10

two.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)

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

two.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS codes
  • UKF - East Midlands (England)
Main site or place of performance

Nottingham

two.2.4) Description of the procurement

Future technologies related to optical equipment components and consumables. Tenderer to indicate what they will offer under this lot in their tender response.

two.2.5) Award criteria

Cost criterion - Name: Pricing (Transparency & Visibility) / Weighting: 10

two.2.11) Information about options

Options: No

two.2.13) Information about European Union Funds

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


Section four. Procedure

four.1) Description

four.1.1) Type of procedure

Open procedure

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

The procurement involves the establishment of a framework agreement

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

The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: Yes

four.2) Administrative information

four.2.1) Previous publication concerning this procedure

Notice number: 2024/S 000-023092

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

The contracting authority will not award any further contracts based on the above prior information notice


Section five. Award of contract

Contract No

1

Lot No

1-10

Title

Optical Related Equipment Components and Consumables

A contract/lot is awarded: Yes

five.2) Award of contract

five.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract

29 October 2024

five.2.2) Information about tenders

Number of tenders received: 5

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

five.2.3) Name and address of the contractor

Thorlabs Ltd

Cambridgeshire

Country

United Kingdom

NUTS code
  • UK - United Kingdom
The contractor is an SME

No

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

Total value of the contract/lot: £600,000


Section five. Award of contract

Contract No

2

Lot No

1-9

Title

Optical Related Equipment Components and Consumables

A contract/lot is awarded: Yes

five.2) Award of contract

five.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract

31 October 2024

five.2.2) Information about tenders

Number of tenders received: 5

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

five.2.3) Name and address of the contractor

EDMUND OPTICS LTD.

York

Country

United Kingdom

NUTS code
  • UK - United Kingdom
The contractor is an SME

Yes

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

Total value of the contract/lot: £600,000


Section five. Award of contract

Contract No

3

Lot No

1-9

Title

Optical Related Equipment Components and Consumables

A contract/lot is awarded: Yes

five.2) Award of contract

five.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract

24 October 2024

five.2.2) Information about tenders

Number of tenders received: 5

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

five.2.3) Name and address of the contractor

RS COMPONENTS LIMITED

Northants

Country

United Kingdom

NUTS code
  • UK - United Kingdom
The contractor is an SME

No

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

Total value of the contract/lot: £600,000


Section five. Award of contract

Contract No

4

Lot No

1-9

Title

Optical Related Equipment Components and Consumables

A contract/lot is awarded: Yes

five.2) Award of contract

five.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract

30 October 2024

five.2.2) Information about tenders

Number of tenders received: 5

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

five.2.3) Name and address of the contractor

PRO-LITE TECHNOLOGY LTD

Bedford

Country

United Kingdom

NUTS code
  • UK - United Kingdom
The contractor is an SME

Yes

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

Total value of the contract/lot: £600,000


Section six. Complementary information

six.4) Procedures for review

six.4.1) Review body

Royal Courts of Justice

Strand

London

WC2A 2LL

Country

United Kingdom

six.4.2) Body responsible for mediation procedures

The Royal Courts of Justice

Strand

London

WC2A 2LL

Country

United Kingdom

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

Royal Courts of Justice

Strand

London

WC2A 2LL

Country

United Kingdom