# RBGKEW/439 Teaching Microscopes

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS](/buyers/royal-botanic-gardens/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: [Carl Zeiss Ltd](/contract-winners/carl-zeiss/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £60,000
- Award date: 10 August 2017
- Published: 29 September 2017
- Contract start: 1 September 2017
- Contract end: 29 September 2017
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: goods
- Notice ID: 3ff29aa6-c026-465b-8e80-0ca41ecabb6f-173318
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-7f44a69b-e811-406c-a86f-8d556414bc95

## Description

Digital stereo and compound teaching microscopes, \(30 in total, 15 of each\), or imaging plant and fungal specimens, to assist their identification, analysis and new species discovery\. Let via the LUPC Microscopes and Imaging framework, Lot 5 - New Technology and Combined Systems\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/3ff29aa6-c026-465b-8e80-0ca41ecabb6f-173318)