CRM Liquid Nitrogen Tanks

Concepts

• liquid nitrogen
• edinburgh
• centre for regenerative medicine
• crm nitrogen room
• tanks
• vapour phase nitrogen storage tanks
• crm liquid nitrogen tanks
• cryogenic nitrogen storage tanks
• nitrogen
• crm

Location

The Centre for Regenerative Medicine (CRM) University of Edinburgh

Description

The University of Edinburgh is in the process of completing the IRR and IRR Expansion buildings which will operate with the Centre for Regenerative Medicine (CRM) and run as one institute. The CRM nitrogen room will be used by the occupants of the new IRR building and to cater for the additional staff and students the nitrogen cryogenic storage capacity needs to be increased. The University wishes to invite competitive tenders for the supply, installation and technical services of 3 x vapour phase nitrogen storage tanks for the Centre for Regenerative Medicine (CRM). The current facility holds 7 x Statebourne Biosystem 36,000 vial Cryogenic nitrogen storage tanks. An additional 3 tanks to hold a minimum of 36,000 vials per tank is required. The new units will be required to work seamlessly with the existing equipment and integrate with existing supply and return control system.

Total Quantity or Scope

You are invited by The University of Edinburgh to tender for the supply, installation and technical services/support of liquid nitrogen cryogenic storage tanks and a range of specialist technical services for a planned upgrade to the Centre for Regenerative Medicine (CRM) at the BioQuarter. The current facility holds 6 x Statebourne Biosystem 36 liquid nitrogen tanks. We are planning to fit an additional 3 x higher capacity units to work seamlessly with the existing equipment.

Renewal Options

1 years with the option to extend for a further 4 in total (1+1+1+1+1)

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 24111800 - Liquid nitrogen
• 44611000 - Tanks

Indicators

• This is a one-off contract (no recurrence)
• Renewals are available.
• Financial restrictions apply.

Other Information

This procurement will be conducted via the Public Contracts Scotland - Tender portal (PCS-T). We will apply a one stage open procedure.Bidders must self-certify their adherence to the conditions of participation via the SPD (Scotland) in PCST, and may be required to submit means of proof before contract award. Bidders must refer to the specific requirements listed in the Section III in this Contract Notice when competing the SPD in PCST. ** PREVIEW NOTICE, please check Find a Tender for full details. ** NOTE: Bidders and subcontractors engaged in the delivery of this contract may be excluded if they have not met applicable social, environmental and labour obligations under national, EU, and international law (as indicated in ESPD section 3D). Without prejudice to any relevant obligations, suppliers should note that this includes obligations for certain organisations under: -the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (available at http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2015/30/contents/enacted), -the ILO conventions and other measures listed in Annex X of Directive 2014/24/EU (available at http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32014L0024&fro...) - the Equality Act 2010, in regards to the protected characteristics of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation (available at https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/contents) -the Employment Relations Act 1999 (Blacklists) Regulations 2010 (http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/493/contents/made) - this is grounds for mandatory exclusion or termination at any procurement or contract stage At any stage, bidders and/or relevant subcontractors may be required to provide statements and means of proof demonstrating their compliance with these obligations or the reliability of their self-cleansing measures, including the annu The buyer is using PCS-Tender to conduct this ITT exercise. The Project code is 20118. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2343 (SC Ref:674585)