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 Manchester · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Olympus KeyMed
- Value
- £240,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Laboratory & precision equipment · Microscopes (CPV 38510000)
- Region
- North West
- Official notice
- 003487-2021 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date17 Feb 2021
- Published22 Feb 2021Published 5 days after the contract date
Description
Our research groups at The University of Manchester Cancer Research Centre require a high specification Confocal (Spinning Disk) Microscope system with isolation table and environmental chamber to support essential Cancer research activities due to begin end of March. The Funding has been awarded for the Manchester Cancer Research Centre based in the OCRB (Oglesby Cancer Research Building).
About the supplier
Olympus KeyMed: every public contract they have won.