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
- Future Bio Consulting Ltd SME
- Value
- £286,440
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Research & development · Research and development services and related consultancy services (CPV 73000000)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 101898-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date26 Oct 2026
- Published28 Oct 2026Published 2 days after the contract date
Description
The Baillie Gifford Pandemic Sciences Hub intend to appoint Future Bio Consultancy to provide highly specialised strategic advisory services in drug discovery and development including associated spinout and commercialisation support. The University considers competition to be absent for technical reasons as per Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015-33 (1) (b) (ii)Technical Reasons: The consultant identified possesses unique scientific, medical, commercial skills and project-specific knowledge (including therapeutic innovation, AI integration, strategic collaborations, and resource mobilisation) that are all required collectively to enable the University to meet its project requirements.
About the supplier
Future Bio Consulting Ltd: every public contract they have won.