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 Common Services Agency (more commonly known as Public Services Delivery Scotland) (PSD Scotland) · Body governed by public law
- Suppliers
- Bio-Techne Ltd SME, BioLegend, corning Life Sciences, Life Technologies Limited, Miltenyi Biotec, Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Ltd, Thermo Fisher Scientific
- Value
- £117,846
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Research & development · Research and experimental development services (CPV 73100000)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 070076-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date4 Jun 2026
- Published24 Jul 2026Published 50 days after the contract date
Description
Direct award under Regulation 33 (1) b competition is absent for technical reasons
About the suppliers
Bio-Techne Ltd: every public contract they have won.
BioLegend: every public contract they have won.
corning Life Sciences: every public contract they have won.
Life Technologies Limited: every public contract they have won.
Miltenyi Biotec: every public contract they have won.
Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Ltd: every public contract they have won.
Thermo Fisher Scientific: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 00441506).