Tender: Calibration Services for Plowright and Brooksby Effluent Treatment Plants – The Pirbright Institute

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The Pirbright Institute is seeking a supplier for comprehensive calibration services for all sensors and instruments across its Plowright Continuous and Batch Effluent Treatment Plants and the Brooksby Batch Effluent Treatment Plant, covering approximately 370 instruments in total (about 239 at Plowright and 131 at Brooksby). The contract requires scheduled calibration with critical instruments calibrated every 6 months and non-critical instruments every 12 months, delivered as two site visits per year per building (first visit for all instruments, second visit six months later for critical instruments only). The contractor must provide UKAS-traceable test equipment, calibration certificates, registers and documentation, comply with biosecurity, quarantine and barrier shower entry/exit procedures while working under escort in high-containment areas, attend site for approximately 27 days per year (18 days at Plowright, 9 days at Brooksby), bill any additional days separately, cost and source replacement of faulty or non-calibratable equipment under independent purchase orders, hold a reasonable number of spare parts for call outs, ensure all engineers are directly employed and provide the location of proposed engineers.