Published date: 17 January 2016

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


Closing: 11 January 2016

Contract summary

Industry

  • Laboratory reagents - 33696500

Location of contract

South West

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

BIP183448238

Published date

17 January 2016

Closing date

11 January 2016

Contract start date

14 January 2016

Contract end date

30 August 2016

Contract type

Supply contract

Procedure type

Negotiated procedure

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The University of Exeter is procuring access to the Oxford Nanopore PromethION Early Access Programme (PEAP). This is a pre-commercial release of a system utilizing nanopore technology to sequence multi-kilobase fragments of DNA. The system will be used to evaluate the suitability of the technology for clinical diagnostic applications as well as method development. To our knowledge no competing system is commercially available at this time

The specifications of the system contains up to 48 flowcells containing a nanopore sensor array enabling 3000 nanopores each. This allows for up to 144,000 nanopores on the instrument simultaneously.

The user may deploy as many of the 48 flow cells as they wish at any time to allow for scalable analyses. Within each flow cell, multiple samples may be run separately or the same sample may be run across multiple flow cells for a faster time-to-result.

With real-time analyses, the system needs to be run only for as long as it takes to gather sufficient data to answer the biological question.

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Award information

Awarded date

11 January 2016

Contract start date

14 January 2016

Contract end date

30 August 2016

Total value of contract

£45,000

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Oxford Nanopore Technologies

Address

Edmund Cartwright House
4 Robert Robinson Avenue
Oxford
OX4 4GA

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Wendy Herrington

Address

Procurement Services,
Northcote House
Exeter
EX4 4QJ
UK

Telephone

+441392661000

Email

procurement@exeter.ac.uk