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title: "Tender for a Biological Atomic Force Microscopy (bioAFM)"
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# Tender for a Biological Atomic Force Microscopy (bioAFM)

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/tender-for-a-biological-atomic-force-microscopy-bioafm-ocds-h6vhtk-02997e). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Swansea University: "Tender for a Biological Atomic Force Microscopy (bioAFM)". Published status: complete. Published Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Swansea University](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/swansea-university-coh-rc000639)
- **Published Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** goods
- **Classifications (CPV):** Microscopes
- **Delivery Location:** UKL18
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Awarded Value:** £270,000 (exc. VAT, 1 contract)
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-02997e`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/tender-for-a-biological-atomic-force-microscopy-bioafm-ocds-h6vhtk-02997e#tl-md)

## Description
The purchase will include instrumentation to hybrid with the Zeiss 510 confocal capacity currently on site and will include provision to image and force characterise the interactions between target compounds and their intended drug delivery moieties/target cells, using all available AFM data channels (specifically height and mechanical z scale information).

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete

- **Delivery regions:** UKL

- **Description:** The Cluster for Epigenomics and Antibody drug conjugate (ADC) Therapeutics (CEAT) is a GBP 2.6m project, led by the Reproductive Biology and Gynaecological Oncology (RBGO) group at Swansea University Medical School and is aimed at developing new ther...

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** 004621-2021-SU55(21)-1 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **Bruker AXS SAS**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-7949`
  - Value: £270,000 † (exc. VAT)

> † value taken from the contract record; the award notice published none.

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** 004621-2021-SU55(21)-1 (active)
  - Signed Value: £270,000
  - Signed Date: 25/02/2021

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F004621-2021)
- **Last Source Update:** 2021-03-08T15:24:02.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-27T15:14:57.213Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-02997e