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
- The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
- Supplier
- Thermo Fisher Scientific SME
- Value
- £119,791.70
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Laboratory & precision equipment · Chromatographs (CPV 38432200)
- Region
- North East
- Official notice
- 035379-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date1 Mar 2026
- Published17 Apr 2026Published 47 days after the contract date
Description
The requirement is for a five-year agreement to enable the servicing, support and repair costs of two existing high-resolution/accurate mass liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (HRAM LC-MS) systems to be purchased in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. The two systems are both manufactured by Thermo Fisher Scientific and based around patented OrbitrapTM mass analysers.
About the supplier
Thermo Fisher Scientific: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 00441506).