Published date: 7 July 2021

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


Closing: 3 June 2021, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

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

Location of contract

England

Value of contract

£500,000

Procurement reference

NCL001-DN545113-86560172

Published date

7 July 2021

Closing date

3 June 2021

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

28 June 2021

Contract end date

28 June 2022

Contract type

Supply contract

Procedure type

Other

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Mass spectrometry-based proteomics has been extensively used in the field of cell biology and immunology, allowing the quantification of thousands of proteins as well as their modifications, localization, and dynamics for understanding cellular functions and processes on molecular level. Proteomics often provides a hypothesis-free and systems-wide characterisation of cellular or organellar proteomes. A standard proteomics workflow includes the following steps: extraction of proteins from cells or tissue, protein digestion by a protease into peptides, separation of peptides by liquid chromatography with online analysis of peptides by tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS), database-search for protein identification and software based quantification of the peptide ion intensities. This instrument will be for a successful mass spectrometry facility. We have in recent years successfully applied proteomics to a wide range of biological questions. We have analysed complex mammalian proteomes and sub-proteomes. Many of the samples are often only available in very small sample amounts and thus we require high sensitivity for our proteomics analyses. Moreover, we will use the tendered instrument for small molecule and metabolome analyses, requiring high resolution.

Award information

Awarded date

28 June 2021

Contract start date

29 June 2021

Contract end date

28 July 2022

Total value of contract

£535,000

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Address

Thermo Fisher Scientific
Stafford House
Boundary Way
Hemel Hempstead
Hertfordshire
HPE 7GE

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Emma Barksby

Address

Newcastle University
Procurement Services, Kingsgate
Newcastle
NE1 7RU
England

Telephone

+44 1912086298

Email

emma.barksby@ncl.ac.uk

Website

https://www.ncl.ac.uk