Award notice Supplies
European Tender HR-SEM
- Public buyer
- Universiteit Twente
Enschede - Place of performance
- Enschede
- Estimated value
- €1,300,000 excl. VAT
- Amount awarded
- €1,200,000 excl. VAT
- Planned end of contract
- 1 July 2031
likely re-tender around January 2031 - Bids received
- 2
- Procedure
- Open procedure
Any company may submit a bid. - Publication
- 1 October 2026
- Notice language
- English
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Description
The University of Twente is tendering to purchase a HIGH-RESOLUTION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE This high-resolution scanning electron microscope (HR-SEM) with specific detectors/modules (e.g., EDS, EBSD, Raman) for various analyses – viz. visual, structural, elemental and compositional analyses – is to be purchased to maintain a state-of-the-art system and thereby the leading position of the MESA+ Institute with respect to advanced imaging and analyses. This HR-SEM, to be operated by a skilled engineer, will be applied for material/surface evaluation of samples from academic researchers as well as industry from a wide range of backgrounds/fields/industries, such as nanotechnology, chemistry, electronics, photovoltaics, photonics, micro/nanofluidics, (bio)medics.
Awarded to
CPV codes
European codes that classify what the contract is about. They are how we find the tenders for your trade.
38511000
Winning prices for comparable contracts
- A quarter below
- €1
- Median
- €1
- A quarter above
- €187,500
Amounts awarded (excl. VAT) over the last 3 years for 6 contracts in the same CPV group (3851…), excluding framework agreements. Half of the contracts fall between the two quartiles. TED source: mostly contracts above the EU thresholds, so amounts tend to be high.
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Source : TED – Office des publications de l'Union européenne © Union européenne, données retraitées. Reference 675847-2026.