---
title: "Purchase of a Materials Testing System"
ocid: "ocds-r6ebe6-0000815699"
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source: "Public Contracts Scotland"
current_stage: "Award"
buyer: "UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH"
published: "2025-11-12"
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# Purchase of a Materials Testing System

Buyer: UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-r6ebe6-0000815699

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## Summary

See notice for full details.

## Notice

Materials Testing System

### Lot Information

Lot 1

A Table Mounted Materials Testing System is designed to test the mechanical properties of materials--like tensile strength, compression strength, flexural behaviour, or hardness. It is used to evaluate how materials behave under different loads. Having the axial and torsional axes coupled in one frame is essential for this research: it eliminates inter-machine variability, avoids alignment and fixturing inconsistencies that would arise from chaining separate instruments, ensures synchronized control and common metrology for traceable results, and preserves the integrity of combined-load failure and characterization tests.

### Procurement Information

The School of Engineering required the purchase of the Instron Model 68MT-5 Table Mounted Materials Testing System in support of the research into meta-material adhesives for improved performance and functionalisation of bondlines. Instron's proposal is the only offering that delivers an integrated table-mounted 5 kN frame, a biaxial transducer with the required axial/rotational capacities, and a compatible torsion actuator 25Nm -- together with traceable load-cell calibration, the required test-control/software functionality, on-site commissioning and user training -- in a single, synchronized system. No other supplier demonstrated the combined tension-compression + torsion capability (including the exact torque limits, angular resolution and software/test-profiler support) that the research protocol requires. Having the axial and torsional axes coupled in one frame is essential for this research: it eliminates inter-machine variability, avoids alignment and fixturing inconsistencies that would arise from chaining separate instruments, ensures synchronized control and common metrology for traceable results, and preserves the integrity of combined-load failure and characterization tests. For this reason, this purchase was made directly with Instron via an NCA.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Public Contracts Scotland |
| Latest notice | https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=NOV543423 |
| Notice type | PCS Notice - Website Contract Award Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Goods |
| Procurement method | Limited |
| Procurement method details | Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | Large |
| All stages | Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 12 Nov 2025 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 5 Nov 2025 |
| Contract period | Not specified |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | £73,853 |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Complete |
| Awards status | Not specified |
| Contracts status | Active |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH |
| Locality | EDINBURGH |
| Post town | Edinburgh |
| Postcode | EH1 1HT |
| Country | Scotland |
| ITL 1 | TLM Scotland |
| ITL 2 | TLM1 East Central Scotland |
| ITL 3 | TLM13 City of Edinburgh |
| Local authority | City of Edinburgh |
| Electoral ward | City Centre |
| Westminster constituency | Edinburgh East and Musselburgh |
| Delivery location | TLM75 City of Edinburgh |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | INSTRON - DIVISION OF ITW |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 38 - Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)

### Codes

- 38000000 - Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)

## Release History

- 12 Nov 2025 at 00:00 - Award - PCS Notice - Website Contract Award Notice - https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=NOV543423

## Documents

- https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=NOV543423
  Purchase of a Materials Testing System - Materials Testing System

## Notice URLs

- http://
- http://www.ed.ac.uk
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