Published date: 11 May 2023

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


Closing: 19 December 2022, 5pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research laboratory services - 73111000

  • Research consultancy services - 73210000

Location of contract

England

Value of contract

£24,500 to £24,999

Procurement reference

LTMNSOIL - METABARCODING

Published date

11 May 2023

Closing date

19 December 2022

Closing time

5pm

Contract start date

4 January 2023

Contract end date

31 March 2023

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Competitive quotation (below threshold)

The buyer selects a group of potential suppliers to invite to tender.

This procedure can be used for procurements below the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

This project aims to analyse soil samples from Natural England's Long Term Monitoring Network using metabarcoding, to generate data which can be used to explore how past tRFLP analysis of microbial communities can be made compatible with modern metabarcoding approaches. This project will specifically deliver metabarcoding of a limited number of samples using two primer sets: those used for tRFLP, and those used in modern metabarcoding, and deliver both raw and taxonomically assigned data, with advice on use of sequence data for in-silico tRFLP for comparison.

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

Soil Sample Metabarcoding for Natural England's Long Term Monitoring Network (LTMN)

  • Opportunity
  • Published 2 December 2022, last edited 5 December 2022

Attachments

Additional text

To apply please respond to the attached Request for Quotation. Responses should be emailed to matthew.j.shepherd@naturalengland.org.uk and victoria.sloan@naturalengland.org.uk quoting reference "LTMNSOIL - METABARCODING" and "Final Submission", no later than 17:00 on 19th December 2022. Clarification questions can be submitted by emailing the above addressed prior to 15th December 2022; noting that unless commercially sensitive, the question and response will be circulated to all tenderers that request this.

Award information

Awarded date

3 January 2023

Contract start date

4 January 2023

Contract end date

31 March 2023

Total value of contract

£20,825

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

SCHOOL OF BIOSCIENCES, UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD,

Address

Western Bank,
Sheffield, S10 2TN

Reference

No reference - other

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

Attachments

About the buyer

Contact name

Matthew Shepherd

Address

Sterling House
Dix's Field
Exeter
EX1 1QA
England

Email

matthew.j.shepherd@naturalengland.org.uk