Awarded without open competition
Awarded without open competition. The buyer went directly to one or a few suppliers instead of advertising the contract. Procurement rules allow this only in specific cases, such as extreme urgency, when only one supplier can do the work, or for call-offs from an existing framework.
Key facts
- Buyer
- University Of Edinburgh · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Carl Zeiss Limited
- Value
- £795,179.03
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Laboratory & precision equipment · Molecular microscopes (CPV 38512200)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 000454-2024 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date21 Dec 2023
- Published8 Jan 2024Published 18 days after the contract date
Description
Zeiss Lattice SIM2 SR microscope. This will open possibilities for many research groups to routinely perform live cell super-resolution imaging across a range of physiological samples, scales and models. The procurement route taken is a direct award facilitated through APUC frameworks. Stem cell biology and regenerative medicine have been a strategic priority for the UoE over the past two decades. Newly recruited faculty at all career stages have created a critical mass of PIs who have, and continue, to make seminal contributions to our understanding of fundamental biology and translation into new technologies, platforms and therapeutics. The new Institute for Regeneration and Repair (IRR) at the Edinburgh bioQuarter campus, brings together faculty from the former MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, MRC Centre for Inflammation Research and MRC Centre for Reproductive Health. Over the past decade these MRC Centres have created a wealth of novel stem cell-based models, genetically eng…
About the supplier
Carl Zeiss Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 00542141).