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
- Catapult CT · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Cellular Origins Ltd SME
- Value
- £900,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Industrial machinery · Industrial robots (CPV 42997300)
- Region
- East of England
- Official notice
- 010272-2024 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date26 Mar 2024
- Published28 Mar 2024Published 2 days after the contract date
Description
CGTC will be working in collaboration with Cellular Origins to develop a robot, the platform will deliver a version of the Constellation platform to transform cell therapy manufacturing that offers baseline functionality of incubation and bioreactor transport, demonstrating the core mobile robotic automation capability. The system is capable of modular extension to add fluid transfer and sample analysis capability.
About the supplier
Cellular Origins Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 13910732).