INVITATION TO TENDER FOR THE LABORATORY AUTOMATION SYSTEM MINTECROBO

Geologian tutkimuskeskus (in English: the Geological Survey of Finland, "GTK") invites you to Tender for the public contract according to this Call for tenders and its appendices. The object of this Call for tenders is GTK’s Laboratory Automation System operated with the help of a robot (later referred to as ‘MintecRobo’). Please, see the "Invitation to tender" for details.

The Laboratory Automation System operated with the help of a robot (later referred to as ‘MintecRobo’) is requested to make the analysis of different kinds of crushed (< 5 mm) ores, rock materials, slags, ashes, and other solid materials fully automatically. Solid materials to be analysed will be inserted into the MintecRobo as dried samples. Elemental Analysis of prepared samples is made by using WDXRF equipment and mineralogical analysis by using XRD instrument. MintecRobo will also be used in the analysis of different liquids, mainly process waters and similar, being minor part of the sample analysis. Samples are coming from GTK Mintec’s Mineral Processing Pilot Plant, Bench Scale Process Laboratory, Mineralogy Laboratory, Mini Pilot, and from Exploration and ore potential evaluation projects and other GTK’s internal and external projects. GTK Mintec conducts up to 12 different big projects and several tens of smaller projects annually. For most of the samples, speed is of essence along with the analytical accuracy and reproducibility. On the other hand, there are samples for research purposes for which MintecRobo shall be able to give as accurate results as possible, thereby analysis speed being less important. More detailed description of the procurement is available in Appendix 1 “Scope of the tender”.

The duration of the contract mentioned above is an estimate and is subject to change.

The Contracting Authority has changed the deadlines of the additional information questions. Appendix "Invitation to tender" has also been updated for the same respect.