Steriliser

Tender description

The project was for the supply, installation and commissioning of two multi-purpose, effluent containment laboratory sterilizers including steam generators (either integral or separated depending upon bidders design and the plant room space requirements), with associated equipment, within the Microbiology Department at the new Dumfries and Galloway Hospital in Dumfries. The project was for the supply, installation and commissioning of two multi-purpose, effluent containment laboratory sterilizers including steam generators (either integral or separated depending upon bidders design and the plant room space requirements), with associated equipment, within the Microbiology Department at the new Dumfries and Galloway Hospital in Dumfries. There will be new laboratories department within the hospital located on the 1st floor within the building. The new department will be constructed to house 2 x multicycle effluent containment laboratory sterilisers fitted with active air removal via liquid ring vacuum pump. The steam generation plant will be provided by the bidder and forms part of this requirement. This procurement is for 2 x sterilisers with associated steam plant, compressors, loading equipment and discard containers (and water treatment system if required for the site bore hole supplied water). The sterilizers will be processing waste from containment level II and III laboratories and used to sterilize solutions and equipment prior to use within the laboratories. The processing capacity required is to process 7 Plastic discard cycles per day of a volume equivalent to 12 ‘Goldsworth type’ discard tins per cycle, there will also be 3 clean fluids cycles run every week and a daily porous load cycle. The Sterilizer should have a mechanism to allow a leak test cycle or porous load cycle (or both) to be programmed to run out of hours.