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
- Secretary of State for Health and Social Care acting as part of the Crown through UK Health Security Agency · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
- Supplier
- Twist Bioscience
- Value
- Not published
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Research & development · Research laboratory services (CPV 73111000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- 033747-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date6 Jun 2025
- Published19 Jun 2025Published 13 days after the contract date
Description
This requirement is for a custom synthesised oligo and mutagenized libraries. The contract will also include the ability to order other libraries as required and cloning of the above nucleotides. <br/>All oligonucleotide synthesis is priced on the scale of the library and size of the individual components of the library (as below) as well additional fees for cloning/purification. It is expected we would require synthesis of oligos between 5,000 (Tier 6) and 50,000 (Tier 13) of nucleotides 121-150 nt in length
About the supplier
Twist Bioscience: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 05283571).