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Contract Award

General Information
Country:   United Kingdom
City/Locality:   DURHAM
Notice/Contract Number:   eu:146507-2009
Publication Date:   May 29, 2009
Buyer:   UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM
Original Language:   English

Contact Information
Address:   UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM
DURHAM, Tees Valley and Durham
United Kingdom
Web Site:   www.durham.ac.uk

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Notice Type: 2180 - Contract award
Regulation of Procurement: European Communities, with participation by GPA countries
EU Official Journal Publication: 102/2009, #146507-2009
Contract Nature: Supply contract
Procedure Type: Contract awards
Type of Bid Required: Not applicable
Awarding Criteria: The most economic tender
Successful Bidder: NAME AND ADDRESS OF ECONOMIC OPERATOR TO WHOM THE CONTRACT HAS BEEN
AWARDED: SESO, 305 Rue Louis Armand, F-13593 Aix-en-Provence . E-mail:
seso.marketing@orange.fr. Tel. +33 442168500.

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CONTRACT AWARD NOTICE
Supplies
SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY
I.1) NAME, ADDRESSES AND CONTACT POINT(S): University of Durham,
Procurement Service, Mountjoy Block 4, Stockton Road, Attn: Rebecca
Morris, UK-Durham DH1 3UZ. Tel. +44 1913344531. E-mail:
rebecca.morris@durham.ac.uk. Fax +44 1913344539.
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority: www.durham.ac.uk.
I.2) TYPE OF THE CONTRACTING AUTHORITY AND MAIN ACTIVITY OR ACTIVITIES:
Body governed by public law.
Education.
Other: Research.
The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting
authorities: no.
SECTION II: OBJECT OF THE CONTRACT
II.1) DESCRIPTION
II.1.1) Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority:
080708 Camera for a Spectrograph.
II.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of
performance: Supplies.
Purchase.
Main place of delivery: Department of Physics.
NUTS code UKC1.
II.1.4) Short description of the contract or purchase(s): Durham
University's Centre for Advanced Instrumentation (CfAI) seeks to purchase
2 scientific cameras comprising large diameter, astronomy-grade lenses
assembled into precision engineered mechanical housings. The cameras will
form part of the High Resolution Spectrograph (HRS) which is being
constructed for the 11 metre Southern African Large Telescope (SALT).
The scope of the contract is for: the final optical design optimisation
from a Zemax optical design supplied by CfAI, sourcing of prescribed
optical glass blanks, figuring and polishing of lens elements, coating of
lenses with the specified antireflection coatings, measurement of lenses
(including interferometric tests where appropriate) detailed mechanical
design and construction of housings, integration of lenses into housing,
performance testing of assembled cameras and delivery to the UK.
The red camera has a focal length of 208.5 mm and is optimised for
wavelengths of 555 nm to 890 nm; it compromises 6 optical elements, the
physical diameter of the largest optical element being 225 nm. The blue
camera has a focal length of 166.8 mm and is optimised for wavelengths of
370 nm to 555 nm; it comprises eight optical elements, the physical
diameter of the largest element being 240 nm. The performance of the
camera systems shall be such that they achieve better than 2 pixel Nyquist
sampling at the highest resolving power.
II.1.5) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 38630000.
II.1.6) Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA):
Yes.
II.2) TOTAL FINAL VALUE OF CONTRACT(S)
II.2.1) Total final value of contract(s): Value: 273 420 GBP.
Excluding VAT.
SECTION IV: PROCEDURE
IV.1) TYPE OF PROCEDURE
IV.1.1) Type of procedure: Open.
IV.2) AWARD CRITERIA
IV.2.1) Award criteria: The most economically advantageous tender in
terms of
1. Appropriateness of Solution. Weighting:
2. Price. Weighting:
3. Commercial Aspects. Weighting:
IV.2.2) An electronic auction was used: No.
IV.3) ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
IV.3.1) File reference number attributed by the Contracting Authority:
080708.
IV.3.2) Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract: No.
SECTION V: AWARD OF CONTRACT
CONTRACT NO: 080708
TITLE: Camera for a Spectrograph.
V.1) DATE OF CONTRACT AWARD: 7.5.2009.
V.2) NUMBER OF OFFERS RECEIVED: 4.
V.3) NAME AND ADDRESS OF ECONOMIC OPERATOR TO WHOM THE CONTRACT HAS BEEN
AWARDED: SESO, 305 Rue Louis Armand, F-13593 Aix-en-Provence . E-mail:
seso.marketing@orange.fr. Tel. +33 442168500.
V.4) INFORMATION ON VALUE OF CONTRACT
V.5) THE CONTRACT IS LIKELY TO BE SUB-CONTRACTED: No.
SECTION VI: COMPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
VI.1) CONTRACT RELATED TO A PROJECT AND/OR PROGRAMME FINANCED BY
COMMUNITY FUNDS: No.
VI.2) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: V.3) Postal code: CS 30504-13593.
VI.3) PROCEDURES FOR APPEAL:
VI.3.1) Body responsible for appeal procedures: As in section V1.4.2
below.
VI.3.2) Lodging of appeals: Precise information on deadline(s) for
lodging appeals: This authority will incorporate a minimum 10 calendar day
standstill period at the point information on the award of the contract is
communicated to tenderers. This period allows unsuccessful tenderers to
seek further debriefing from the contracting authority before the contract
is entered into. Applicants have 2 working days from notification of the
award decision to request additional debriefing and that information has
to be provided a minimum of 3 working days before expiry of the standstill
period. Such additional information should be requested from the address
in section 1.1.
If an appeal regarding the award of a contract has not been successfully
resolved the Public Contracts Regulations 2006 (SI 2006 No 5) provide for
aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach
of the rules to take action in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern
Ireland). Any such action must be brought promptly (generally within 3
months). Where a contract has not been entered into the court may order
the settling aside of the award decision or order the authority to amend
any document and may award damages. If the contract has been entered into
the court may only award damages.
VI.4) DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE: 27.5.2009.
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