01 Procurement
Tender overview
- Buyer
- ASTON UNIVERSITY
- Status
- Complete
- Procurement method
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Category
- goods
- CPV classification
- 38000000 — Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)
- Tender period
- Not supplied — Not supplied
Description
This procurement is for the purchase, delivery, installation, commissioning and initial user training of two items of capital research equipment for the Aston Institute for Membrane Excellence (AIME): a TA Instruments Discovery DSC 2500 differential scanning calorimeter and an integrated Waters SEC-MALS system comprising size-exclusion chromatography, multi-angle light-scattering and refractive-index detection. Both systems will be supplied with dedicated manufacturer PCs and the required control and analysis software. The DSC will support the thermal characterisation of polymers, biomaterials, pharmaceuticals and other advanced materials. The SEC-MALS system will enable the separation and absolute molecular-weight, size and distribution analysis of macromolecules, proteins, polymers and nanoparticles.
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02 Awards and contracts
Published award records
SEC-MALS and DSC
- Awarded
- Not supplied
- Award value
- Not supplied
- Suppliers
- 1
- Signed contract
- 17 September 2026
03 Organisations
Buyers, suppliers and other parties
ASTON UNIVERSITY
Aston Triangle, Birmingham, UKG31, B47ET, United Kingdom
GB-UKPRN 10007759High Court of England and Wales
London, United Kingdom
Waters Limited
Waters Limited Stamford Avenue, Altrincham Road, Wilmslow, Cheshire, England, Cheshire, UKD6, SK9 4AX, United Kingdom
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04 Provenance
Source for this process
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