In deliveryUnited KingdomGoods£361,000
High Pressure Vitreous Freezer
- Published
- Published 5 June 2025
- Deadline
- Closed 7 July 2025
Overview
The School of Physics and Astronomy has a requirement for a ‘High Pressure Vitreous Freezer’ (HPVF); this is a device that freezes samples to extreme low temperature at an exceptionally high rate to essentially ‘freeze a sample in time’. If a sample is cooled at a slower rate ice may form within/on fragile samples (for example cells), which would swell/crystalise and destroy the nano/microstructure of the sample. Freezing at an exceptionally high rate freezes the sample faster than ice can form, avoiding this issue.
This machine will be used for experimental sample preparation.
Key details
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Status
- In delivery
- Category
- Goods
- Estimated value
- £361,000
- Procedure
- Selective
- Published
- 5 June 2025
- Deadline
- Closed
Optical instrumentsIndustrial machineryFreezing equipment
Award outcome
- Awarded value
- £267,160
- Award date
- 5 January 2026
- Contract period
- — → 24 November 2033
- SciQuip Ltd
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Notice history
Every published notice in this contracting process, newest first.
Contract
2 February 2026
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5 June 2025
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Contracting authority
University Of Edinburgh
BuyerEdinburgh, United Kingdom
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