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
- NHS Grampian · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Life Technologies Limited
- Value
- £912,780
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Medical equipment & pharmaceuticals · Laboratory reagents (CPV 33696500)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 018114-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date18 Feb 2026
- Published27 Feb 2026Published 9 days after the contract date
Description
Award to existing supplier via waiver. These workstreams include Next Generation Sequencing, Microarray, PCR, Sanger sequencing and fragment analysis, and have all undergone extensive validation processes within the laboratory and are UKAS accredited.
About the supplier
Life Technologies Limited: every public contract they have won.