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
- Public Health Wales · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Illumina Cambridge Ltd
- Value
- £273,708
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Repair & maintenance · Repair and maintenance services of medical equipment (CPV 50421000)
- Region
- Wales
- Official notice
- 010518-2024 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date27 Mar 2024
- Published2 Apr 2024Published 6 days after the contract date
Description
Three year fixed service contract for 3x Nextseq 550 and 1x Miniseq are required by PenGU in order to provide a routine service to specialist and reference labs across Microbiology and across Wales. Any equipment failures will add delays to the TAT and reduce resilience. The equipment can only be maintained by the Provider (Illumina Cambridge Ltd). They are the only supplier with the capability to maintain this equipment and the cost of repair, when out of contract, is significant.
About the supplier
Illumina Cambridge Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 03625145).