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
- Nikon UK Limited
- Value
- £187,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Laboratory & precision equipment · Microscopes (CPV 38510000)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 013769-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date7 Mar 2025
- Published8 Apr 2025Published 32 days after the contract date
Description
Purchase of a Yokagawa W1 spinning disk unit to upgrade a microscope currently housed in the Light Microscopy Core.
About the supplier
Nikon UK Limited: every public contract they have won.