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
- Public Health England · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
- Supplier
- Hamamatsu Photonics UK Limited SME
- Value
- £150,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Laboratory & precision equipment · Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses) (CPV 38000000)
- Region
- South West
- Official notice
- 001907-2021 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date16 Sep 2020
- Published29 Jan 2021Published 135 days after the contract date
Description
This single tender action request is for the purpose of procuring a digital slide scanner in support of increased output and digital image analysis to produce quantitative instead of qualitative only pathological analysis and rapid access for short through-put reporting which is necessary for the current COVID-19 studies.
About the supplier
Hamamatsu Photonics UK Limited: every public contract they have won.