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
- Engelmann & Buckham Ltd SME
- Value
- £351,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Laboratory & precision equipment · Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses) (CPV 38000000)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 013788-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date16 Feb 2026
- Published16 Feb 2026Published the same day
Description
The University of Edinburgh is seeking to award Engelmann & Buckham the contract for the purchase of an XPlore Microcompounder as the UK representatives for XPlore. The XPlore microcompounder has been selected as it is the only equipment that meets the University's requirements of: - An integrated unit that includes an injection moulder, a tow impregnation line and an integrated filament line to produce fused deposition modeling filaments. - A vertical machine to maximise limited lab space.
About the supplier
Engelmann & Buckham Ltd: every public contract they have won.