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
- Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
- Supplier
- Bruker UK Limited SME
- Value
- £89,252
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Repair & maintenance · Repair and maintenance services (CPV 50000000)
- Region
- North East
- Official notice
- 034098-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date28 Jan 2026
- Published15 Apr 2026Published 77 days after the contract date
Description
RBG Kew is seeking a four-year procurement agreement to enable the servicing, support (including liquid helium fills) and repair costs of an existing 400 MHz NMR system to be purchased in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. Within this procurement agreement, the present tender is for a four-year maintenance contract agreement to cover remote support, liquid helium refills of the magnet and quench recovery attempt and is inviting two options, one with and one without an annual preventative maintenance visit. The procurement agreement would allow any additional maintenance costs, such as repairs not covered by the service contract, to be purchased separately and as needed from Suppler without further tendering.
About the supplier
Bruker UK Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 00923986).