Open competition
Open procedure: the contract was advertised and any supplier could submit a bid.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
- Supplier
- Edinburgh Genetics Limited SME
- Value
- £444,000
- Procedure
- Open procedure
- Sector
- Architecture & engineering · Analysis services (CPV 71620000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- 044990-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date30 May 2025
- Published31 Jul 2025Published 62 days after the contract date
Description
The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (‘RBG Kew’) intends to appoint a Supplier for a period of up to 36 months with the option to extend by up to a further 6, from contract commencement in 2025. The Supplier will provide sequencing services primarily for the Fungarium Sequencing project, but also for other projects using fungal whole genome sequencing approaches. The maximum possible value of work under this contract is £444,000 GBP excluding VAT. Services will be called off as needed and RBG Kew makes no commitment to any minimum level of spend. The Fungarium Sequencing project at RBG Kew aims at whole genome sequencing several thousands of fungi from a combination of fresh samples and mostly historical/ancient dried fungarium collections. Samples are mostly reference type specimens with very low DNA yield. Library preparation requires ancient DNA protocols. The Supplier will provide high-throughput sequencing data either from DNA extracts or from library preparations supplied by RBG Kew, …
About the supplier
Edinburgh Genetics Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company SC650426).