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Procurement of a Multi-purpose Confocal Imaging System

Checking and testing apparatus
Optical instruments
CZ03
Official notice
Published value
£600,000
Submission deadline 1 Dec 2025, 13:00 GMT
Lots published1
Procurement Executive Summary
AI & Search Synopsis
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Tenderline Synopsis: UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL: "Procurement of a Multi-purpose Confocal Imaging System". Published status: active. Published value: £600,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 1 Dec 2025, 13:00 GMT. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityUNIVERSITY OF BRISTOLScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
Closed
1 Dec 2025, 13:00 GMT
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)£600,000
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Published history for UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
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Competition Density
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Payment Terms
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Coverage: 0 active published awards; 0 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Published-to-award variance compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityUNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statusactive
Framework / DPSNot published
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published30 Oct 2025, 18:05 GMT
Last source update30 Oct 2025, 18:05 GMT
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationChecking and testing apparatus, Optical instruments
Delivery area
CZ03
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-05d781
What is being bought
Note: This tender process will be governed by the internal Procurement Policy of the University of Bristol. For the avoidance of doubt, for the purposes of this procurement, the University of Bristol is not a Contracting Authority for the purposes of the Procurement Act 2023, which will accordingly not apply to this procurement. The University of Bristol’s Wolfson Bioimaging Facility based in the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences wishes to expand its current suite of fluorescence microscopes (confocal, spinning disk, widefield, lightsheet, multiphoton, TIRF, SMLM, STED, FLIM) to extend capacity and capabilities for live cell, organism and organoid imaging. The opportunity to expand the Wolfson Bioimaging Facility has arisen following the award of a BBSRC ALERT 24 grant to provide equipment for fast confocal imaging with low photodamage and high sensitivity.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Published value updated to £600,000
    30 Oct 2025, 18:05 GMT
  2. Status changed to active
    30 Oct 2025, 18:05 GMT
  3. Official notice release published
    30 Oct 2025, 18:05 GMT
  4. Submission deadline changed to 1 Dec 2025, 13:00 GMT
    30 Oct 2025, 18:05 GMT
  5. Buyer information updated
    30 Oct 2025, 18:05 GMT
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    active
    Published value£600,000
    The source published no individual title or description for this lot.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Procedure published
    30 Oct 2025, 18:05 GMT
  2. Submission deadline
    1 Dec 2025, 13:00 GMT
Commercial outcome and competition
AwardsNo award published
ContractsNo contract published
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL

Contracting authority GB-COH-RC000648
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  • UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL - This tender process will be governed by the internal Procurement Policy of the University of Bristol. For the avoidance of doubt, for the purposes of this procurement, the University of Bristol is not a Contracting Authority for the purposes of the Procurement Act 2023.
    buyer

    GB-COH: RC000648
    Beacon House, Queens Road, Bristol, UKK11, BS8 1QU, GB
    purchasing-office@bristol.ac.uk
Documents (2)
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Related procedures (0)
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Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleThis tender process will be governed by the internal Procurement Policy of the University of Bristol. For the avoidance of doubt, for the purposes of this procurement, the University of Bristol is not a Contracting Authority for the purposes of the Procurement Act 2023, which will accordingly not apply to this procurement.
Procedure rationaleNot published