Published date: 2 December 2022

Last edited date: 5 December 2022

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Research laboratory services - 73111000

  • Research consultancy services - 73210000

Location of contract

England

Value of contract

£24,500 to £24,999

Procurement reference

LTMNSOIL - METABARCODING

Published date

2 December 2022

Closing date

19 December 2022

Closing time

5pm

Contract start date

4 January 2023

Contract end date

31 March 2023

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Competitive quotation (below threshold)

The buyer selects a group of potential suppliers to invite to tender.

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

This project aims to analyse soil samples from Natural England's Long Term Monitoring Network using metabarcoding, to generate data which can be used to explore how past tRFLP analysis of microbial communities can be made compatible with modern metabarcoding approaches. This project will specifically deliver metabarcoding of a limited number of samples using two primer sets: those used for tRFLP, and those used in modern metabarcoding, and deliver both raw and taxonomically assigned data, with advice on use of sequence data for in-silico tRFLP for comparison.

More information

Attachments

Additional text

To apply please respond to the attached Request for Quotation. Responses should be emailed to matthew.j.shepherd@naturalengland.org.uk and victoria.sloan@naturalengland.org.uk quoting reference "LTMNSOIL - METABARCODING" and "Final Submission", no later than 17:00 on 19th December 2022. Clarification questions can be submitted by emailing the above addressed prior to 15th December 2022; noting that unless commercially sensitive, the question and response will be circulated to all tenderers that request this.

About the buyer

Contact name

Matthew Shepherd

Address

Sterling House
Dix's Field
Exeter
EX1 1QA
England

Email

matthew.j.shepherd@naturalengland.org.uk