Competition with a shortlist
Competitive procedure with a selection stage: suppliers were shortlisted before being invited to bid.
Key facts
- Buyer
- University of Southampton · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Illumina UK, Limited
- Value
- £78,216
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Sector
- Laboratory & precision equipment · Geological and geophysical instruments (CPV 38200000)
- Region
- South East
- Official notice
- View on Contracts Finder
- Timeline
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- Contract date17 Jun 2025
- Published18 Jun 2025Published 1 day after the contract date
Description
The Environmental Sequencing Facility requires a next-generation sequencing system that serves as a direct, enhanced replacement for its current benchtop short-read platform, which is being discontinued by the manufacturer. This new instrument must maintain compatibility with established short-read, paired end sequencing-by-synthesis chemistries and data analysis pipelines, while delivering significantly increased throughput and faster turnaround times. Critical features must include robust performance for applications such as amplicon and whole-genome sequencing, and the ability for the instrument to produce up to 15 Gigabases (Gb) of sequencing data when based around 2 X 300 base pair (bp) sequencing chemistry, and a capability to generate up to 50 million reads per sequencing run. To ensure sequencing quality is maintained with this replacement, the platform must retain an average per-base quality score of over 80% higher than Q30 (phred quality score) across the entire sequencing …
About the supplier
Illumina UK, Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 03625145).