Published date: 20 December 2018

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 24 October 2018

Contract summary

Industry

  • Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses) - 38000000

Location of contract

North East

Value of contract

£500,000

Procurement reference

NCL001-DN365230-17759174

Published date

20 December 2018

Closing date

24 October 2018

Contract start date

11 December 2018

Contract end date

12 December 2022

Contract type

Supply contract

Procedure type

Other

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Mass spectrometry-based proteomics has been extensively used in the field of cell biology and immunology, allowing the quantification of thousands of proteins as well as their modifications, localization, and dynamics for understanding cellular functions and processes on molecular level. Proteomics often provides a hypothesis-free and systems-wide characterisation of cellular or organellar proteomes. A standard proteomics workflow includes the following steps: extraction of proteins from cells or tissue, protein digestion by a protease into peptides, separation of peptides by liquid chromatography with online analysis of peptides by tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS), database-search for protein identification and software based quantification of the peptide ion intensities.
We have in recent years successfully applied proteomics to a wide range of biological questions. We have analysed complex mammalian proteomes and subproteomes such as phosphoproteomes and ubiquitinomes. These subproteomes are often only available in very small sample amounts and thus we require high sensitivity for our proteomics analyses. This tender is a call-offer from Lot 5 of the APUC National Agreement for Mass Spectrometry and Chromatography Equipment (LAB1001AP) for the supply of a LC-MS system for state-of-the-art proteomics applications. The scope of this contract is for the supply, delivery and installation of equipment and as detailed in Section 3 Technical Specification. The contract includes after sales support and an option for a minimum of 48 months warrant, maintenance and servicing and all training necessary for safe and reliable operation of the system.

Award information

Awarded date

20 November 2018

Contract start date

11 December 2018

Contract end date

12 December 2022

Total value of contract

£577,995

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Bruker UK Ltd

Address

Bruker UK Ltd
Banner Lane
Coventry
Warwickshire
CV4 9GH

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Emma Barksby

Address

Newcastle University
Procurement Services, Kingsgate
Newcastle
NE1 7RU
England

Telephone

+44 1912226298

Email

emma.barksby@ncl.ac.uk