Spectrometers

Tender description

The Scottish Police Services Authority (SPA) Forensic Services Department have a requirement to purchase a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectrometer instrument, located at the Scottish Crime Campus, Craignethan Drive, Gartcosh, Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK, G69 8AE. The instrument will be primarily used for the identification of certain new psychoactive substances also known as ‘legal highs’, not distinguishable by current GC-MS techniques and involves distinguishing between positional isomers in many cases. This level of certainty is required for both Intelligence and court purposes and this will be the first NMR instrument to be procured by SPA. Tender submissions are invited for the Supply, Delivery, Installation and Commissioning and Associated Services (including Maintenance and Support) of the NMR Spectrometer instrument.