Published date: 30 June 2021

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 12 July 2021, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Medical equipments - 33100000

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

Location of contract

NW9 5EQ

Value of contract

£12,000 to £18,000

Procurement reference

CF-0242300D0O000000rwimUAA1

Published date

30 June 2021

Closing date

12 July 2021

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

14 July 2021

Contract end date

13 July 2022

Contract type

Supply 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

Public Health England (PHE) is seeking to purchase up to Qubit 3 Fluorometers.

The fluorometers should provide normalisation of DNA concentration across all samples entering the sequencing library preparation process, additionally, these libraries must be pooled and balanced at a specific molarity on the next generation sequencing instrument.
This requires determination of DNA concentration and average insert length and have a specification that preferably includes:
- Calculations and settings automatically performed by the instrument
- Touchscreen controls
- Max dimensions of 5.4"(w) x 10"(l) X 2.2" (h)
- Ability to personalise with own assays
- Minimum 1 year warranty
- Sensitive quantitation
- Storage capabilities of up to 1,000 sample results
- Sample size of 1-20ul
- Incubation times of up to 2 minutes for DNA and RNA assays

Please only contact Mercy.Mashem@phe.gov.uk and submit a quotation if you feel you can meet the above requirements.
The closing date and time to submit a quotation is at 12noon on the 12th of July, 2021.

About the buyer

Contact name

Mercy Mashem

Address

61 Coindale Avenue, 61 Colindale Avenue
LONDON
NW9 5EQ
United Kingdom

Telephone

02083277848

Email

mercy.mashem@phe.gov.uk