White FEG SEM

{
  "buyer": {
    "id": "GB-PPON-PYCH-2579-LGTN",
    "name": "AWE Plc"
  },
  "date": "2025-08-14T16:01:36+01:00",
  "id": "048867-2025",
  "initiationType": "tender",
  "language": "en",
  "ocid": "ocds-h6vhtk-058832",
  "parties": [
    {
      "address": {
        "country": "GB",
        "countryName": "United Kingdom",
        "locality": "Reading",
        "postalCode": "RG7 4PR",
        "region": "UKJ11",
        "streetAddress": "AWE Aldermaston"
      },
      "contactPoint": {
        "email": "RDME.Procurement@awe.co.uk"
      },
      "details": {
        "classifications": [
          {
            "description": "Public authority - central government",
            "id": "publicAuthorityCentralGovernment",
            "scheme": "UK_CA_TYPE"
          }
        ]
      },
      "id": "GB-PPON-PYCH-2579-LGTN",
      "identifier": {
        "id": "PYCH-2579-LGTN",
        "scheme": "GB-PPON"
      },
      "name": "AWE Plc",
      "roles": [
        "buyer"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "tag": [
    "tender"
  ],
  "tender": {
    "aboveThreshold": true,
    "awardPeriod": {
      "endDate": "2026-01-13T23:59:59Z"
    },
    "coveredBy": [
      "GPA"
    ],
    "description": "AWE is seeking to procure a Field Emission Gun Scanning Electron Microscope (FEG-SEM) to replace an existing instrument. The capability provides analyses of a wide range of material types, including metals, glasses, ceramics and polymers.",
    "documents": [
      {
        "description": "Not published",
        "documentType": "conflictOfInterest",
        "id": "conflictOfInterest"
      },
      {
        "accessDetails": "By email request to    RDME.Procurement@awe.co.uk",
        "documentType": "biddingDocuments",
        "id": "future"
      },
      {
        "datePublished": "2025-08-14T16:01:36+01:00",
        "description": "Tender notice on Find a Tender",
        "documentType": "tenderNotice",
        "format": "text/html",
        "id": "048867-2025",
        "noticeType": "UK4",
        "url": "https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/048867-2025"
      }
    ],
    "enquiryPeriod": {
      "endDate": "2025-08-26T12:00:00+01:00"
    },
    "expressionOfInterestDeadline": "2025-09-15T12:00:00+01:00",
    "id": "AWE01956",
    "items": [
      {
        "additionalClassifications": [
          {
            "description": "Microscopes",
            "id": "38510000",
            "scheme": "CPV"
          }
        ],
        "deliveryAddresses": [
          {
            "country": "GB",
            "countryName": "United Kingdom",
            "region": "UKJ"
          }
        ],
        "id": "1",
        "relatedLot": "1"
      }
    ],
    "legalBasis": {
      "id": "2023/54",
      "scheme": "UKPGA",
      "uri": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents"
    },
    "lots": [
      {
        "awardCriteria": {
          "criteria": [
            {
              "name": "Quality",
              "numbers": [
                {
                  "number": 2,
                  "weight": "percentageExact"
                }
              ],
              "type": "quality"
            },
            {
              "name": "ESH",
              "numbers": [
                {
                  "number": 2,
                  "weight": "percentageExact"
                }
              ],
              "type": "quality"
            },
            {
              "name": "Technical",
              "numbers": [
                {
                  "number": 40,
                  "weight": "percentageExact"
                }
              ],
              "type": "quality"
            },
            {
              "name": "Price",
              "numbers": [
                {
                  "number": 30,
                  "weight": "percentageExact"
                }
              ],
              "type": "price"
            },
            {
              "name": "Social Value",
              "numbers": [
                {
                  "number": 10,
                  "weight": "percentageExact"
                }
              ],
              "type": "quality"
            },
            {
              "name": "Product Demonstration",
              "numbers": [
                {
                  "number": 16,
                  "weight": "percentageExact"
                }
              ],
              "type": "quality"
            }
          ]
        },
        "contractPeriod": {
          "endDate": "2027-01-30T23:59:59Z",
          "maxExtentDate": "2031-01-25T23:59:59Z",
          "startDate": "2026-01-30T00:00:00Z"
        },
        "hasOptions": true,
        "hasRenewal": true,
        "id": "1",
        "options": {
          "description": "Option for maintenance from appointed supplier is required"
        },
        "renewal": {
          "description": "Option to extend if optional maintenance offer from appointed supplier is taken up"
        },
        "selectionCriteria": {
          "criteria": [
            {
              "description": "As detailed in the Tender Pack",
              "forReduction": true
            }
          ]
        },
        "status": "active",
        "suitability": {
          "sme": true
        },
        "value": {
          "amount": 800000,
          "amountGross": 960000,
          "currency": "GBP"
        }
      }
    ],
    "mainProcurementCategory": "goods",
    "procedure": {
      "features": "This procurement will be run as a two-part (three staged) Competitive Flexible Procedure procurement, per Regulation 20 of the Procurement Act 2023.\nPart one is the Invitation to Participate (ITP) Stage. The ITP is to enable Suppliers to complete and submit the ITP Response Questionnaire (ITP Submission). ITP Submissions will be used to determine Suppliers\u0027 suitability for this requirement in terms of legal and financial capacity and technical ability. Following assessment of Suppliers\u0027 ITP Submissions, AWE will invite the top 5 scoring Suppliers to proceed to the next stage.\nPart two is the Invitation to Submit First and Only Tenders (ITSFOT), and is split into two stages. The ITSFOT is to enable Suppliers to submit a Tender and for AWE to evaluate and score the responses to identify its preferred supplier for this requirement. \nPart two stage 1 consists of the ITSFOT written submissions from Suppliers. Technical, quality, social value, and commercial elements are assessed at this stage 1. \nPart two stage 2 consists of the ITSFOT demonstration submissions from Suppliers. The purpose of the demonstrations is to provide Suppliers the opportunity to demonstrate their solution to a panel of technical evaluators, focusing on how the bidder proposes to deliver the service and specification of goods required by AWE. \nFollowing assessment of Suppliers\u0027 ITSFOT stage 2 submissions, AWE will seek to award the contract to the Supplier whose overall ITSFOT submission has been assessed as having scored the highest.\nIt is anticipated the draft contract included in the ITSFOT document pack will be used unamended and in its entirety at contract award. However, within the rules of this procurement Suppliers are permitted to \u0027redline\u0027 certain stated areas of the contract that they state would require non-material amendments to enable a mutually beneficial contract award."
    },
    "procurementMethod": "selective",
    "procurementMethodDetails": "Competitive flexible procedure",
    "status": "active",
    "submissionMethodDetails": "RDME.Procurement@awe.co.uk",
    "submissionTerms": {
      "electronicSubmissionPolicy": "notAllowed",
      "languages": [
        "en"
      ]
    },
    "title": "White FEG SEM",
    "value": {
      "amount": 800000,
      "amountGross": 960000,
      "currency": "GBP"
    }
  }
}