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
- Heriot-Watt University · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Boardwalk Robotics
- Value
- Not published
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Industrial machinery · Industrial robots (CPV 42997300)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 006768-2024 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date20 Feb 2024
- Published4 Mar 2024Published 13 days after the contract date
Description
This is a specialist piece of robotic equipment and there are no other suppliers available in the market to supply this type of equipment in the form factor required. The Alex Manipulation Platform (supplied by Boardwalk Robotics) includes two 7 degree-of-freedom arms, a 3 degree-of-freedom spine, a 2 degree-of-freedom head, an onboard computer and switch, perception sensors in the head and chest, table-mounted stand, two Sake EZ Grippers, NUC configured with an automated logger to capture control data for troubleshooting and algorithm design and installation & configuration. The principal purpose of the contract is to acquire goods in connection with research undertaken by The National Robotarium.
About the supplier
Boardwalk Robotics: every public contract they have won.