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 Glasgow · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Refeyn SME
- Value
- £262,500
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Laboratory & precision equipment · Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses) (CPV 38000000)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 056617-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date15 Sep 2025
- Published15 Sep 2025Published the same day
Description
PURCH2797 - PPE1003677 Direct Award for the Purchase of Mass Photometer. The purchase is for a Mass photometer, for biophysical characterisation of macromolecules in solution. To be housed in Neil Bulleid Integrated Protein Analysis facility for access to researchers at University. Refeyn is a sole provider and owns a number of the patents. Internal Procurement Policy Exception (PPE) Form completed.
About the supplier
Refeyn: every public contract they have won.