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 Aberdeen · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Leica Microsystems (UK) Ltd
- Value
- £550,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Furniture & domestic appliances · Freezers (CPV 39711120)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 095245-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date8 Oct 2026
- Published8 Oct 2026Published the same day
Description
Award of contract for a high-pressure freezer capable of vitrifying biological specimens under extreme pressure conditions to preserve ultrastructure for subsequent electron microscopy analysis.
About the supplier
Leica Microsystems (UK) Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 00476611).