Published date: 16 January 2019

This notice was replaced on 6 March 2019

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Awarded contract (published 6 March 2019)

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Detection and analysis apparatus - 38430000

  • Dosimetry system - 38547000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£54,000

Procurement reference

tender_197875/738117

Published date

16 January 2019

Closing date

30 January 2019

Contract start date

4 February 2019

Contract end date

3 February 2022

Contract type

Supply 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

Public Health England (PHE) requires the provision of a single cell analysis/profiling system for use in its Health Protection radiation biodosimetry laboratories.
Due to the nature of the work, the equipment must be able to fulfil the following requirements:
- The proposed system must be able to capture 100's and 10,000's of single cells within a microwell cartridge with the capacity to be increased to 100,000+ cells.
- The proposed system must provide extensive quality control to accurately measure the number of single cells, number of doublets, and capture rate preventing sequencing of non-optimal libraries.
- The proposed system must be able to prepare sequencing libraries for analysis of gene expression of targeted gene panels in thousands of single cells simultaneously.
- The proposed system must allow detection of differential gene and protein expression simultaneously with and between individual cells.
- The proposed system must include sequencing libraries that contain dual indexes and must be compatible with Illumina sequencing technology.
- The proposed system must allow multiplexing of different samples in a single run.
- The proposed system must allow subsampling of constructed libraries, as well as archiving of material for further processing.
- The proposed system must provide analysis pipelines for rapid processing of sequencing data.
- PHE require one year's warranty.
- PHE require on-site training.
- PHE require bioinformatics support.
If you feel that you have a solution which can meet the requirements outlined above, please contact Anna Gibson anna.gibson@phe.gov.uk and Kallie Rivers kallie.rivers@phe.gov.uk with details of your proposed solution or to access the tender documents through: https://phe.bravosolution.co.uk by no later than 30th January 2018.

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About the buyer

Address

61 Colindale Avenue
London
NW9 5EQ
England

Email

kallie.rivers@phe.gov.uk