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Purchase of Magnetotelluric (MT) Equipment

Laboratory
optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)
Scotland (UKM75)
Published value
Not published
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
Procurement Executive Summary
AI & Search Synopsis
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Tenderline Synopsis: University Of Edinburgh: "Purchase of Magnetotelluric (MT) Equipment". Published status: complete. Published value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityUniversity Of EdinburghScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
complete
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)Not published
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Published history for University Of Edinburgh. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Published-to-award variance
Not availableInsufficient comparable data
Requires at least 5 comparable procedures
Competition Density
3.3Bids / Report
60.5% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationNo estimate
Insufficient attributable awardsNo concentration estimate available
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Payment obligations depend on the applicable regime and contract. Consult the official documents.
Coverage: 230 active published awards; 205 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 Unpublished data stays unknown.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 Edinburgh
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statuscomplete
Framework / DPSNot published
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published12 Mar 2025, 10:02 GMT
Last source update12 Mar 2025, 10:02 GMT
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationLaboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)
Delivery area
Scotland (UKM75)
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-04ebf0
What is being bought
Purchase of Magnetotelluric (MT) Equipment
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Status changed to complete
    12 Mar 2025, 10:02 GMT
  2. Official notice release published
    12 Mar 2025, 10:02 GMT
  3. Buyer information updated
    12 Mar 2025, 10:02 GMT
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    cancelled
    Published valueNot published
    Purchase of Magnetotelluric (MT) Equipment
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Procedure published
    12 Mar 2025, 10:02 GMT
  2. Award active
    Not published · Not published
  3. Contract active
    Signed 6 Mar 2025, 00:00 GMT · £326,052
Commercial outcome and competition
Awards
Phoenix Geophysics Limited
Not published · Not published · active
Contracts
Contract
£326,052 · signed 6 Mar 2025, 00:00 GMT · active
Bid statistics
bids: 1 (lot 1)
electronicBids: 1 (lot 1)
foreignBidsFromEU: 0 (lot 1)
foreignBidsFromNonEU: 0 (lot 1)
smeBids: 0 (lot 1)
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

University Of Edinburgh

Contracting authority GB-FTS-2023
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  • University Of Edinburgh
    buyer
    centralPurchasingBody

    Charles Stewart House, 9-16 Chambers Street, Edinburgh, UKM75, EH1 1HT
    jcouper@ed.ac.uk
    +44 1316502759

  • Edinburgh Sheriffs Court
    reviewBody

    EDINBURGH

  • Phoenix Geophysics Limited
    supplier

    3781 Victoria Park Ave., Unit #3, Toronto, CA, M1W 3K5
    +14 168978048
Documents (0)
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Related procedures (0)
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Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Procedure rationaleThe purchase of five additional Magnetotelluric (MT) stations will allow a greater number of instruments to be used in the field at the same time, thus allowing a larger area to be studied, in less time. It is vital to the science that is undertaken by the users of the MT equipment that the frequency response of the magnetic sensors is the same across all equipment, as mixing and matching different types will introduce variations across the signal recorded. When the MT equipment is used in ice and snow environments such as those of the Antarctic the high impedance of the ice and snow makes electrical measurements hard to obtain. The existing supplier of MT equipment (Phoenix Geophysics) have a pre-amp system that uses a titanium electrode along with an electronics pack to measure these signals. They are the only supplier of these pre-amp systems.