# Provision of Scanning Electron Microscope \(SEM\)

> A sourced UK public sector contract award published by Public Health England.

## Key facts

- Buyer: Public Health England
- Supplier: [Carl Zeiss Limited](/suppliers/carl-zeiss/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £500,000
- Tender value: £420,000
- Award date: 10 December 2018
- Published: 8 January 2019
- Contract start: 7 January 2019
- Contract end: 6 January 2024
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: works
- Notice ID: 632673ba-cdc2-497b-af2c-c5cea39937e8-262433
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-9da21380-7df1-45e0-ab6c-4ae1c34f87be

## Description

Public Health England \(PHE\) has awarded a contract to Carl Zeiss Ltd, for the purchase of a new Scanning Electron Microscope \(SEM\) capable of examining biological and non-biological samples with energy-dispersive X-ray \(EDX\) spectroscopy capability\. This would provide for a continuation of the PHE SEM service at Porton and at Science hub Harlow in the future\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/632673ba-cdc2-497b-af2c-c5cea39937e8-262433)