Contract award · 16 Sep 2020

Provision of Automated Digital Slide scanner

Public Health England awarded “Provision of Automated Digital Slide scanner” to Hamamatsu Photonics UK Limited for £150k on 16 Sep 2020. Awarded without open competition.

No competitionLaboratory & precision equipmentSouth West

Value £150k

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.

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Key facts

Buyer
Public Health England · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
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)
Timeline
  1. Contract date16 Sep 2020
  2. 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.

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