# 3024 - Cellular Electron Microscopy Equipment

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

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [University of Leeds](/buyers/university-of-leeds/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: [Leica Microsystems \(UK\) Ltd](/contract-winners/leica-microsystems-uk/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £464,296
- Tender value: £464,296
- Award date: 23 March 2018
- Published: 29 March 2018
- Contract start: 29 March 2018
- Contract end: 28 March 2024
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: goods
- Notice ID: bea7d61c-3685-420c-baee-5fd134ef4ff7-208373
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-862ae4f1-6bc0-494c-ac74-7e24cb0475b6

## Description

THIS NOTICE CONCERNS THE AWARD OF THE CONTRACT for Cellular Electron Microscopy Equipment The Astbury BioStructure Laboratory \(ABSL\) at the University of Leeds has AWARDED A CONTRACT 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/bea7d61c-3685-420c-baee-5fd134ef4ff7-208373)