Published date: 22 December 2019

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


Closing: 19 December 2019

Contract summary

Industry

  • Immunoassay analysers - 38434580

Location of contract

South East

Value of contract

£25,000

Procurement reference

tender_227416/824868

Published date

22 December 2019

Closing date

19 December 2019

Contract start date

20 December 2019

Contract end date

31 December 2020

Contract type

Supply contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (below threshold)

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Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Public Health England (PHE) awarded a contract for provision of single cell western blot equipment to Bio-Techne Ltd.
The equipment will be used PHE Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards (CRCE) in Chilton to research the processes underpinning radiation-induced cardiovascular disease. The current "safe-level" of exposure to radiation that is permissible, is based solely on radiation doses that can cause cancers. However, it is becoming increasingly clear that cancer may not be the only disease that can be induced by radiation. Cardiovascular disease is at the top of the list of potential non-cancer ailments that can be instigated by radiation.

The single cell western blot equipment must meet the following mandatory requirements:
- The system must be capable of microscale separations, quantitation, and immunodetection of proteins in single-cells and must be able to analyse around 1000 single cells per run.
- The system must be compatible with conventional western primary antibodies and standard fluorescently tagged secondary antibodies for immune-probing.
- The instrument must have capability of multiplexing at least 2 target proteins per run and must offer possibility of stripping and reprobing with different set of antibodies.
- The analysis software must perform automatic detection of lanes and protein peaks and offer automatic peak quantification.
Desirable requirement:
- Bench-top footprint would be advantage
The contract can be extended twice by 12 months each.

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Award information

Awarded date

19 December 2019

Contract start date

20 December 2019

Contract end date

31 December 2020

Total value of contract

£40,000

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Bio-Techne Ltd

Address

19 Barton Lane, Abingdon Science Park, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 3NB

Reference

Companies House number: 02490104

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Address

133-155 Waterloo Road
London
SE1 8UG
England

Email

anna.gibson@phe.gov.uk