Market Survey, Sample Preparation Robot and Maintenance for the Device Finnish Customs invites interested suppliers to take part in a market survey regarding the procurement of sample preparation robot and maintenance contract for the device. This planned procurement is for the purchase of sample preparation robot that automates currently manually made liquid-liquid-extraction (L-L-extraction) process used for illicit import samples in the Finnish Customs laboratory. The L-L extraction is used as a sample preparation for qualitative GC (gas chromatography) and LC (liquid chromatography) analysis. The robot to be acquired must perform in a way that the automatic sample preparation can be implemented to the routine work of the laboratory. The robot is required to operate independently (eg. overnight) after human operator has provided samples and necessary consumables (glassware, solvents, filters etc.). The robot should do the extraction process reliably, and should not introduce larger uncertainty to the final results compared to manual L-L extraction. Minimum functional requirements (draft): • Transferring and pipetting accurate volumes of aqueous and organic solvents without dripping. • Minimum pipetting volume of 50 µl and maximum pipetting volume of 1500 µl. Ability to do repeated pipetting to achieve larger volumes eg. 5 ml. • Ability to pipette only the organic top layer of L-L extraction. Either by setting a certain pipetting height or detection of the aqueous-organic boundary. • Independent overnight operation. No operator interaction req... FINNISH CUSTOMS Address : 512 Town : Helsinki NUTS-Code : FI - Suomi Finland Postal Code : 00101 kilpailutukset@tulli.fi Tender Notice International Competitive Bidding 392847-2024 Finland GT-103540749