# 3024 - Cellular Electron Microscopy Equipment

> Tender notice from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [University of Leeds](/buyers/university-of-leeds/contract-awards)
- Published: 8 October 2017
- Planned start: 3 January 2018
- Planned end: 3 January 2023
- Stage: open_tender
- Procurement category: works
- Notice ID: 4616fd2f-385d-4839-915e-ab5f081a8145-175009
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-2e96f000-0456-4a28-a87b-8b011fa9c256

## Description

The Astbury BioStructure Laboratory \(ABSL\) at the University of Leeds has identified a requirement for four instruments to perform correlative light and electron microscopy \(CLEM\) and electron microscopy of cells & tissues\. These instruments are: -A high-pressure freezer to allow rapid freezing of large and/or labile specimens whilst minimizing structural deformation; -And a freeze-substitution unit for low-temperature substitution of water by dehydrating agents and fixatives; -A cryo-ultramicrotome, for room-temperature and cryo-sectioning of samples for \(cryo-\)EM imaging; -And a cryo-CLEM system, to image cryo-fixed samples by fluorescent microscopy, identifying interesting biological events for further analysis at high-resolution by cryo-EM\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/4616fd2f-385d-4839-915e-ab5f081a8145-175009)