Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope

A Contract Award Notice
by UK CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY & HYDROLOGY

Source
Contracts Finder
Type
Contract (Products)
Duration
20 month
Value
£645K
Sector
INDUSTRIAL
Published
05 Dec 2022
Delivery
09 Sep 2022 to 10 May 2024
Deadline
31 Aug 2022 11:00

Concepts

Location

Geochart for 1 buyers and 1 suppliers

1 buyer

1 supplier

Description

Sigma 300 VP Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope with integrated WiTec RISE Confocal Raman Microscope and Oxford Instruments UltimMax 40 EDS Detector & 12 months warranty. RISE-EDS (Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope) is the world's first laboratory-based equipment for multimodal correlative microscopy and spectroscopy. It is a full integration of a (i) WITec 3D confocal Raman microscope into a (ii) ZEISS field emission Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) that is enabled with a (iii) ZEISS Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDS) detector, as one analytical suite.

Award Detail

1 Carl Zeiss (None)
  • Value: £644,675

CPV Codes

  • 38511000 - Electron microscopes

Indicators

  • Contract is suitable for SMEs.

Other Information

Based on the below factors there are currently only one supplier in the market that can supply the RISE-EDS equipment and meet all our requirements; Carl Zeiss Ltd is the only supplier that can provide this unique technology; a fully correlated imaging solution that incorporates light microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy and confocal Raman mapping. Carl Zeiss Ltd owns the patent for the ZEN Connect correlative software and the ZEN Intellesis software for machine learning-based segmentation of image data. These are the only commercial correlative and segmentation tools and are only available from Carl Zeiss Ltd.

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