Published date: 13 December 2018

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 15 January 2019

Contract summary

Industry

  • Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses) - 38000000

Location of contract

North East

Value of contract

£180,000

Procurement reference

NCL001-DN380491-55548692

Published date

13 December 2018

Closing date

15 January 2019

Contract start date

5 February 2019

Contract end date

5 May 2019

Contract type

Supply contract

Procedure type

Open procedure

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Newcastle University invites bids to supply an Acoustic Liquid Handling Robot, as described in the Invitation toTender document.
The EPSRC funded programme grant "Synthetic Portabolomics" seeks to establish a new discipline, Synthetic"Portabolomics", integrating the digital economy's strategic technological drivers (e.g. Big Data, Verification,Complexity Science) with cutting edge Synthetic Biology to deliver foundational tools & theories, biological livinginterfaces as well as wet & dry methods to help realise the future bioeconomy.
To this end, we need to established an automated foundry to accelerate our project development. The acousticliquid handling robotics will be used for a range of applications and therefore must be capable of transferring awide range of fluid types, very rapidly and in nL scale volumes.
More detail can be found in the tender documentation which can be found by registering your interest andaccessing the the ITT event, which can be done at:
https://procontract.due-north.com/Login
The contract reference is NU/1444.
The deadline for expressing an interest is Friday 11/01/2018 at 12:00 GMT.

About the buyer

Contact name

Dave Anderson

Address

Newcastle University
Procurement Services, Kingsgate
Newcastle
NE1 7RU
England

Telephone

+44 1912225360

Email

dave.anderson@ncl.ac.uk