Published date: 3 August 2021

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: 17 August 2021, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Data-processing equipment - 30236200

  • Data services - 72300000

  • Data-processing services - 72310000

    • Data analysis services - 72316000

Location of contract

DT4 8UB

Value of contract

£15,000

Procurement reference

tender_282231/985691

Published date

3 August 2021

Closing date

17 August 2021

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

1 September 2021

Contract end date

30 September 2021

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (below threshold)

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

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The Authority requires the following Sequencing services:

The Authority will isolate RNA from various shrimp tissue samples and will liaise with the winning tenderer to check that the samples will meet the quality control standards required for Nova Seq 6000 sequencing. The Authority will ship these samples to the winning tenderer by courier and/or deliver these in person. The Authority requires the winning tenderer to provide the following services:

- Quality assessment of RNA samples (35 in total)
- Liaising with Cefas and troubleshooting sample quality and extraction methods
- Library preparation for Nova Seq 6000 of RNA samples
- Quality assessment of the libraries prior Nova Seq 6000 sequencing
- Troubleshooting library preparation
- Sequencing of libraries on a S2 Nova Seq 6000 flowcell with 150 bp paired end reads with efficiency of sequencing of 3300M reads (90M reads/sample for 35 samples)
- Quality check of the data obtained
- Data turnaround time of one month from commissioning
- The supplier will make the sequencing data available for download, for example via a web portal or ftp server.


Sample quantity: 35 RNA samples, one S2 Nova Seq 6000 flowcell.

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About the buyer

Contact name

Chloe Halifax

Address

Pakefield Road
Lowestoft
NR33 0HT
England

Telephone

0

Email

Chloe.Halifax@cefas.co.uk