Benchtop Sequencing System

Contract summary

Industry

• Geological and geophysical instruments - 38200000

Location of contract

South East

Value of contract

£78,216

Procurement reference

2025UoS-1660

Published date

18 June 2025

Closing date

17 June 2025

Closing time

4pm

Contract start date

18 June 2025

Contract end date

15 July 2026

Contract type

Supply contract

Procedure type

Call-off from a framework agreement

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

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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 run.

This procurement was facilitated via the LAB2010 NE Framework Lot 1 framework direct award call-off

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Award information

Awarded date

17 June 2025

Contract start date

18 June 2025

Contract end date

15 July 2026

Total value of contract

£78,216

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

ILLUMINA UK, LIMITED

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About the buyer

Address

BUILDING 37, HIGHFIELD CAMPUS,UNIVERSITY ROAD
SOUTHAMPTON
SO171BJ
England

Email

procurement@soton.ac.uk