Published date: 9 October 2018

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


Closing: 17 August 2018

Contract summary

Industry

  • Financial consultancy services - 66171000

Location of contract

North East

Value of contract

£30,000

Procurement reference

NCL001-DN354874-98499697

Published date

9 October 2018

Closing date

17 August 2018

Contract start date

1 October 2018

Contract end date

28 February 2019

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

This proposal is to set up a company, InfoBiotica Ltd, to commercialise research derived from Prof. Natalio Krasnogor's research over the last 10 years. InfoBiotica builds upon a rapidly accelerating convergence between information & communication technology (ICT) and biotechnology. In ICT, the speed to market for new software products has accelerated dramatically over the recent years thanks to (amongst other things) advances in continuous integration and deployment where teams of, perhaps geographically distributed, programmers can rapidly test new code and promptly push it to production (that is, to its customers).

As writing and reading DNA becomes routine and pervasive, genetic engineering, i.e., programing biological organisms, becomes more similar to programming computers. InfoBiotica will exploit proprietary software and molecular techniques developed by Krasnogor's research group to accelerate biotechnological programming. In the last 12 months we have secured £15K from the EPSRC "Ideas to Innovation" programme to establish a proof of concept; subsequently secured ICURe funding of £35k (cohort 11) to carry out initial market research, competitor's analysis and to develop a business model canvas; and a further £10K for UX/UI development from HEFCI.

Award information

Awarded date

25 September 2018

Contract start date

1 October 2018

Contract end date

31 March 2019

Total value of contract

£30,000

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Mr Mohammed Ahmadi

Address

193 Wollaton Vale, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG8 2PG

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Leigh Anderson

Address

Newcastle University
1 Park Tce
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
England

Telephone

+44 1912228618

Email

leigh.anderson@ncl.ac.uk

Website

https://www.ncl.ac.uk