Published date: 18 June 2025
Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.
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
A mini-competition or direct purchase from a pre-established framework agreement.
Contract is suitable for SMEs?
Yes
Contract is suitable for VCSEs?
No
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
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
Address
Chesterford Park
CB10 1XL
GBReference
Companies House number: 3625145
Supplier is SME?
No
Supplier is VCSE?
No
About the buyer
Address
BUILDING 37, HIGHFIELD CAMPUS,UNIVERSITY ROAD
SOUTHAMPTON
SO171BJ
England
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Closing: 17 June 2025, 4pm