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

Description

This tender concerns the acquisition of an X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) system for a university facility that provides access to an extensive suite of characterisation tools as one of its core purposes. Users of the facility come from all levels of experience and technical backgrounds within the university as well as from commercial customers. The acquisition and processing of XPS spectra is the core purpose of the instrument. However, a great variety of additional techniques may be applied to extract further information from the samples with no or very limited additions of hardware. Techniques such as REELS (Reflected Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy) and ISS (Ion Scattering Spectroscopy) and others are interesting, but other options requiring dedicated sources and/or detectors such as AES (Auger Electron Spectroscopy) and Raman spectroscopy may also be considered.The instrument must be largely operated by means of a computer with a dedicated software solution. From here, the samples are transferred back and forth, experiments are designed and the data is analysed. Given the intended number of users, it is essential that the software is very intuitive and straight forward to use. To process the data acquired, the software must include comprehensive routines for identification of elements in a spectrum and peak fitting capabilities thus enabling the conversion from spectra to concentrations of elements or chemical components.The procurement shall be conducted as an open procedure in accordance with Danish Legislative Act No 1564 of 15.12.2015 implementing Directive 2014/24/EU on public procurement.

Opportunity closing date

23 October 2019

Value of contract

£100k-1m