The Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) is an executive agency of the Department of the Environment. Within the Environmental Protection Directorate the Water Management Unit wishes to establish contracts for the supply, delivery, installation, warranty and training of:

Lot 1 – Supply, Delivery, Installation, Warranty and Training of One Gas Chromatographic Mass Spectrometer, (GCMS), Single Quadrupole System.

Lot 2 – Supply, Delivery, Installation, Warranty and Training of One Gas Chromatographic Mass Spectrometer, (GCMS), Ion Trap System.

The systems shall be used to perform analysis of WFD Annex 8/10 substances in environmental matrices down to extremely low limits of quantitation, sub ng/l in a number of cases.

The Contract shall provide for the purchase of each system inclusive of one year warranty and initial operator training. Following year one there shall be options to extend the contract on an annual basis for up to 7 years to cover extended warranty and maintenance.

Tenderers may bid for one or more Lots.

Important: Sample Test – Performance Evaluation.

Prior to the tender closing date Tenderers are required to request samples for testing on their proposed system. Tenderers must carry out the testing of samples in advance of the tender closing date. The testing of samples must be in accordance with the instructions contained in tender documents. A copy of all results must be submitted with the tender submission by the tender closing date.

Samples can be requested via the e-messaging system on eSourcingNI. Tenderers are encouraged to do so as early as possible after downloading the tender documents.

Tender documents can be obtained electronically for registered users of Central Procurement Directorate’s e-sourcing system, e-sourcing NI. If you are not already registered to use e-sourcing NI and wish to obtain these documents please register at www.e-sourcingni.bravosolution.co.uk then follow the link to the current opportunities page.