Published date: 28 November 2023
Last edited date: 5 December 2023
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Contract summary
Industry
Biomedical equipment - 38434540
Data analysis services - 72316000
Research and development services and related consultancy services - 73000000
Management-related services - 79420000
Health and social work services - 85000000
Location of contract
London
Value of contract
£2,250,000
Procurement reference
tender_399489/1287809
Published date
28 November 2023
Closing date
22 December 2023
Closing time
12pm
Contract start date
1 February 2024
Contract end date
31 March 2025
Contract type
Service contract
Procedure type
Open procedure (above threshold)
Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.
This procedure can be used for procurements above the relevant contract value threshold.
This is an accelerated procedure.
Justification
Genomics England is running an accelerated procedure as a longer timeframe is not practical due to the urgent nature of the requirement. The procurement documents and response requirements reflect the shorter response time allocated.
Contract is suitable for SMEs?
Yes
Contract is suitable for VCSEs?
No
Description
Genomics England are looking for a provider to support in digitising all the histopathology slides from the participants of the 100,000 Genomes Project so they can be transferred to the multi-modal research environment.
The multi-modal project provides an enriched data set for cancer research by adding of imaging data from pathology slides and radiology images (e.g., x-ray, CT and MRI) alongside whole genome data.
The multi-modal project aims are:
- Complete the scanning and digitisation of the remaining 200,000 histopathology slides for the 100,000 Genomes Project participants.
- Make accessible to researchers a secure library of linked genomic, clinical and imaging cancer data accompanied with the tooling needed to accelerate the understanding of the morphological, genomic and clinical changes that occur in cancer.
- Lead the research community to generate new insights from the data to support diagnostic, prognostic and precision medicine discovery.
How to apply
If you have not already done so, you will need to register on our Bravo portal https://public.bravosolution.co.uk/genomicsengland/web/login.html
Please register on the e-tendering portal (Bravo) on the link provided. Once registered, you can find the opportunity under project title Services for slide digitisation - multi-modal or the project reference "project_867"
All correspondence should be sent via the portal.
To note, the project will go live and can be accessed from w/c 4th December 2023.
About the buyer
Contact name
Genomics England Ltd
Address
1 Canada Square
London
EC14 5AB
England
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