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 Aberdeen · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- NanoString Technologies SME
- Value
- £610,839
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Laboratory & precision equipment · Machines and apparatus for testing and measuring (CPV 38540000)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 027478-2023 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date18 Sep 2023
- Published18 Sep 2023Published the same day
Description
Award of contract for spatial sequencing equipment without seeking offers through a formal procurement procedure as competition is absent for technical reasons. Under clause 33 (1)(b)(ii) of the legislation, a contracting authority may award a contract without competition (only where no reasonable alternative or substitute exists, and the absence of competition is not the result of artificial narrowing down of parameters of the procurement). In this case, the grounds for not exposing to competition are as follows: The equipment provided by the supplier is the only one which can meet the research requirements and is the only instrument on the market capable of: Spatially resolving both protein and RNA targets, in FFPE and Fresh Frozen tissues, and using the same chemistry and workflow (in-situ, oligo-barcodes which are photocleaved from the target transcript). Capacity to perform the above in a manner non-destructive to the tissue, enabling the use of precious samples for follow-on exp…
About the supplier
NanoString Technologies: every public contract they have won.