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
- Edinburgh Genetics Limited SME
- Value
- £135,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Research & development · Research laboratory services (CPV 73111000)
- Region
- North East
- Official notice
- 077028-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date9 Sep 2025
- Published25 Nov 2025Published 77 days after the contract date
Description
RGB Kew (Science Directorate) is seeking a supplier to extract whole genomic DNA from 2750 ash tree leaf samples and sequence the whole genome of each sample. This work is part of a project on the genomic basis of ash dieback susceptibility.
About the supplier
Edinburgh Genetics Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company SC650426).