Magnetic resonance scanners

Tender description

Provision of the Supply, Installation and Servicing of an MRI Scanner. Instrument must be supplied with a range of RF coils, including: At least 1 flex coil, Knee coil, Breast coil and body matrix. Instrument must be provided with a helium level over 75 % with a cold head in the 1st quarter of its lifetime. Software modules at a minimum including: Tim. Cardiac, Ortho, Neuro, Body, Breast, Angio, Scientific, 3D, Flow quantification, Single Voxel Spectroscopy and fMRI. The instrument must have a minimum static magnetic field of at least 1.5T. The software must include facilities for pulse programming and method development. The hardware and software should have protocols for bone imaging, such as ultra-short echo time imaging or equivalent. The system should be capable of single click whole body imaging. The system must be provided with all system manuals. The software should be provided with the highest possible level of service key for a period of at least 1 year. Instrument comes with NTU-compatible PC, monitor, keyboard, mouse and operating system. Minimum of 12 months warranty and 1 year additional service contract including unlimited telephone support plus projected service costs for up to 5 years including indicative future spare part and consumables costs. The system should have the option of future upgrade should the user needs change. It is to be installed into an empty room and costs must include full transportation, siting, installation of a faraday cage, commissioning, shimming to a minimum of 0.2ppm, testing and training for a minimum of 10 people. Construction of free-standing or fixed partitions for the equipment room, control room and changing room must also be included in the costs. Please see attached details and dimensions of room layout provided. Filter plates must have a sufficiency of remaining capacity to allow for the users to feed through a number of electrical and physical connections. An unused additional consumer plate is desirable. Installation costs must also include a suitably specified cooler to be sited outside of the room. Systems which can achieve very low echo times and have strong gradients are preferred. We will allow use of the installed instrumentation as a manufacturers' demonstration site (max. 12 per year up to 10 years). Optional disposal services for end of life.