Live tenders / Forensic Science Northern Ireland
DOJ - FSNI - Supply, Delivery and Support of a Benchtop Glass Refractive Index Determination System
What the buyer is asking for
Forensic Science Northern Ireland (FSNI) is seeking to establish a contract for the supply, installation and maintenance of a new benchtop Glass Refractive Index Determination System in ERU’s Physical Methods team.
How this is scored
Published by the buyer. A winning response is written to these weightings, not to the question.
- 10%qualityAC1 - Contract Management and Reactive Repairs Strategy
- 5%qualityAC2 - Engineer Experience
- 5%qualityAC3 - System Delivery and Installation
- 80%costAC4 - Total Cost
- Value
- £120,000
- Submission deadline
- 16 Oct 2026, 15:00 BST (24 days left)
- Enquiry deadline
- 06 Oct 2026, 15:00 BST
- Award decision expected by
- 01 Mar 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract start
- Not stated
- Contract end
- Not stated
- Category
- goods
- Lots
- 1
- Procedure
- Open procedure
- CPV codes
- 38000000
- Legal basis
- 2023/54
How contested is this?
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Timeline
4 published dates · Europe/London
- Tender notice published7 days ago15 Sept 2026, 11:59 BST
- Clarification questions byin 15 days6 Oct 2026, 15:00 BST
- Submission deadlinein 25 days16 Oct 2026, 15:00 BST
- Award decision expected byin 161 days1 Mar 2027, 23:59 GMT
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Documents
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