Official UK procurement notice
Contract for the Supply and Installation of Liquid Chromatography-mass Spectrometry Instruments for High-throughput Metabolomics at Phenome Centre Birmingham
Authority: THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM (Education)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Phenome Centre Birmingham at the University of Birmingham invites tenders for supply of TWO bench-top, high resolution accurate mass Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry instruments to provide high-throughput and robust untargeted metabolomics of human (and human model) biofluids, cells and tissue samples. The instruments will be used to identify and semi-quantify up to thousands of metabolites per sample using semi-targeted methods.
The equipment will be used in the Phenome Centre Birmingham to conduct collaborative research projects and service work. This research facility utilises of a suite of mass spectrometry instrumentation for targeted and untargeted metabolite analysis and metabolite identification, specifically:
- Three Thermo Scientific UltiMate 3000 UHPLC systems coupled to Q Exactive Focus mass spectrometers
- Two Thermo Scientific UltiMate 3000 UHPLC systems coupled to TSQ Quantiva triple quadrupole mass spectrometers
- Thermo Scientific Orbitrap Elite mass spectrometer
CPV: Chromatographs · Mass spectrometer
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Awarded
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 25 Oct 2022, 14:10 BST
- Last source update
- 25 Oct 2022, 14:10 BST
- Authority reference
SC11061/22- FTS notice number
2022/S 000-030055- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-037bfdFind a Tender
- Why no open competition
- The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
- Published justification
This contract is a call off from the APUC Mass Spectrometry and Chromatography Equipment Framework Agreement reference LAB1016AP - Lot 5 Liquid Chromatographs coupled with Mass Spectrometers, awarded following a mini competition.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thermo Electron Manufacturing Ltd t/a Thermo Fisher Scientific | £898,520 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 030055-2022-1 · Thermo Electron Manufacturing Ltd t/a Thermo Fisher Scientific
- Signed
- 13 Sept 2022
- Value
- £898,520
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1bids | — | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- University of BirminghamReview body
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Thermo Fisher ScientificAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.