(NU/1675) Supply of a benchtop Colony Picker

Contract summary

Industry

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

Location of contract

England

Value of contract

£100,000

Procurement reference

NCL001-DN545401-17802696

Published date

18 August 2021

Closing date

14 June 2021

Closing time

2pm

Contract start date

20 July 2021

Contract end date

28 July 2021

Contract type

Supply contract

Procedure type

Not applicable

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

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Description

Newcastle University requires a benchtop Colony Picker to establish an automated foundry which will accelerate our research projects in Synthetic Biology (Engineering Biology), including the EPSRC funded programme grant; Synthetic Portabolomics. Interdisciplinary Computing and Complex BioSystems (ICOS) have been awarded funding from the School of Computing and want to purchase a small benchtop colony picker with multiple fluorescent filters for phenotypic selection. We require the instrument to be able to accept more than 2 plates at a time to offer high throughput for automation. The colony picker will be housed in the Devonshire Building within the Faculty of SAGE, (ICOS, School of Computing)

The scope is for the supply, delivery, and commissioning of the equipment as detailed in the Invitation to Tender document, with after sales support, a minimum 12 months parts and labour warranty and maintenance.

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Award information

Awarded date

20 July 2021

Contract start date

21 July 2021

Contract end date

28 July 2021

Total value of contract

£85,303.37

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Singer Instrument Company Limited

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About the buyer

Contact name

Dave Anderson

Address

Newcastle University
Procurement Services, Kingsgate
Newcastle
NE1 7RU
England

Telephone

+44 1912085360

Email

dave.anderson@ncl.ac.uk