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 Edinburgh · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- 10x Genomics
- Value
- £697,170.10
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Medical equipment & pharmaceuticals · Imaging equipment for medical, dental and veterinary use (CPV 33110000)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 067723-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date16 Jul 2026
- Published17 Jul 2026Published 1 day after the contract date
Description
The Institute for Regeneration and Repair Single-cell and Spatial Biology Facility at the University of Edinburgh has received funding to purchase a high-throughput in situ spatial transcriptomics platform for whole-transcriptome profiling directly on tissue sections, with automated imaging, transcript decoding and on-board processing.
About the supplier
10x Genomics: every public contract they have won.