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
- Medicines Discovery Catapult Services Limited · Drug Discovery / Health
- Supplier
- UK Health Security Agency
- Value
- £695,718
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Research & development · Research and development consultancy services (CPV 73200000)
- Region
- North West
- Official notice
- 003875-2024 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date2 Jan 2024
- Published6 Feb 2024Published 35 days after the contract date
Description
The UKHSA are well positioned to provide the services required by PACE for PACE portfolio funded projects and the wider AMR community. This will include but not be limited to the following: AST against a well characterised (including phenotypically, whole-genome sequenced with full antibiogram data) set of isolates and strains directly relevant to the PACE funding call, and; AST data delivered according to industry standards, and; Provided in an open-access environment, enabling PACE awardees to directly learn from and access the lab capability provided for onward studies, and; An opportunity to transfer specific isolates to PACE awardee labs for onward studies, and; The isolate bank will be evolved using the latest surveillance and national reference laboratory data on clinical isolates currently circulating nationally and internationally, and; UKHSA AMR labs then enable rapid characterisation of new isolates including full antibiogram and whole genome sequencing, and; A service mode…
About the supplier
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