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 Edinburgh · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Element Biosciences SME
- Value
- £290,640
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Laboratory & precision equipment · Biomedical equipment (CPV 38434540)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 009318-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date13 Mar 2025
- Published13 Mar 2025Published the same day
Description
The genetics core team wishes to trial a novel bench-top sequencing platform which can scan low diversity libraries with high quality (Q30>90%; Q40>90%), a low PhiX spike, providing 2B reads per run at low cost of purchase and low cost per run (<5 GBP/Gb) and the ability to operate on small and large scale reading projects. On the basis of market analysis it is believed competition is absent for technical reasons and the awarded supplier may offer the only current ‘out of the box’ single device which fulfils this specification within the project budget. A ten day stand-still period will be observed should an economic operator who has not been identified in the market engagement wish to challenge the award, at which point the Authority may at its sole option cancel the award. Additional information: Minimum scoring applied in the sense that had the solution not met the stringent criteria of the customer it would have been rejected.
About the supplier
Element Biosciences: every public contract they have won.