Contract award · 9 Feb 2021
NextSeq 550 Seuqencer Purchase
NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership-Procurement Services (hosted by Velindre University NHS Trust) awarded “NextSeq 550 Seuqencer Purchase” to Illumina Cambridge Limited for £447k on 9 Feb 2021. Awarded without open competition.
No competition- Buyer
- NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership-Procurement Services (hosted by Velindre University NHS Trust) · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Illumina Cambridge Limited
- Value
- £446,629.61
- Contract date
- 9 Feb 2021
- Published
- 10 Feb 2021
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Furniture & domestic appliances · Laboratory furniture (CPV 39180000)
- Region
- Wales
- Official notice
- 002723-2021 on Find a Tender
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.
Description
NHS Wales Shared Service Partnership on behalf of Public Health Wales NHS Trust wish to inform the market that due to the Covid-19 global pandemic they are awarding a contract for the provision of testing kits, equipment, reagents and any other associated consumables required to operate the testing platforms. The UK government has mandated UK Health Boards and Trusts to carry out antibody and antigen testing for the wider population as well as those working in Healthcare and Care settings. Therefore in order to enable the provision of these testing kits, equipment, reagent and other associated consumables required to operate the testing platforms, Public Health Wales would like to inform the market that under Regulation 32 (2) (C) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (PCR’s) as detailed in UK Government guidance PPN 01/20 they are awarding a contract to Illumina Cambridge Limited. Additional information: N/A
About the supplier
- Illumina Cambridge Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 03625145).