Published date: 12 January 2024

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: 12 February 2024, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

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

Location of contract

YO10 5DD

Value of contract

£250,000

Procurement reference

IT-104-4048-UY PROC 1070

Published date

12 January 2024

Closing date

12 February 2024

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

5 March 2024

Contract end date

31 July 2025

Contract type

Supply contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (above threshold)

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

This procedure can be used for procurements above the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The University of York has a diverse plant biology research portfolio covering fundamental mechanistic work to applied plant breeding and near-field research. We have world-leading capabilities in exploiting novel agricultural products such as biopharmaceuticals, enzymes and other high-value chemicals from plants.

Our work utilises a broad range of plant species, including global agricultural crops such as rice, oil-seed rape and cereal crops as well novel biopharmaceutical crops such as Poppy and Artemisia. Much of our fundamental plant science utilises the model plants Arabidopsis thaliana, Nicotiana benthamiana and Brachypodium distachyon. This portfolio of research is dependent on a range of controlled environment growing facilities including 8 controlled temperature rooms, 36 reach-in controlled environment (CE) chambers and 5 glasshouses.

We are seeking to expand our range of reach-in controlled environment chambers, replacing end-of-service units with modern, energy efficient chambers that will ensure our research capacity into the future. In this tender we are seeking multiple CE chambers of two distinct kinds:

Lot 1 - Single-tiered CE chambers for the cultivation of larger crop plants.
Lot 2 - Multi-tiered CE chambers for the cultivation of model plants, mainly Arabidopsis thaliana.

More information

Links

Additional text

The Invitation to Tender (ITT) documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at (https://in-tendhost.co.uk/york/aspx/Home)

Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

About the buyer

Contact name

Procurement Office

Address

Heslington
York
North Yorkshire
YO10 5DD
United Kingdom

Telephone

01904 328211

Email

procurement@york.ac.uk

Website

www.york.ac.uk