DNA Sequencer

Contract summary

Industry

• Measuring instruments - 38300000

Location of contract

South West

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

UOE/2019/021/LJ

Published date

25 June 2019

Closing date

15 April 2019

Contract start date

21 June 2019

Contract end date

20 June 2020

Contract type

Supply contract

Procedure type

Call-off from a framework agreement

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

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Description

DNA sequencing instrument to deliver a flexible and cost-effective service to researchers in the University, NHS and other external collaborators and customers. This instrument is required to fulfil the role currently served by our Illumina HiSeq 2500 and is complementary to our other sequencing instruments including an Illumina MiSeq, a Pacific Biosciences Sequel, Oxford Nanopore MinIONs. While those complementary instruments provide longer reads useful for de novo assembly, the main functionalities required of the new instrument are high throughput, high accuracy and low cost per megabase of sequence data, and ability to sequence small quantities of DNA sample (nanomoles or less). The main research applications will be re-sequencing of human and other genomes for variant detection, genotyping-by-sequencing, meta barcoding with ITS or 16S rDNA amplicons, RNA-seq, ChIP-seq and population genetics approaches similar to RAD-seq. The biological organisms that we study ranges from viruses, through microbes, to higher plants and animals.

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Award information

Awarded date

10 May 2019

Contract start date

21 June 2019

Contract end date

20 June 2020

Total value of contract

£718,810.01

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

ILLUMINA CAMBRIDGE LTD

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About the buyer

Contact name

Leah Jones

Address

Stocker Road
EXETER
EX44PY
England

Telephone

01392723757

Email

l.jones@exeter.ac.uk