Published date: 18 June 2015

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: 16 July 2015

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research services - 73110000

Location of contract

North West

Value of contract

£100,000 to £500,000

Procurement reference

BIP148428494

Published date

18 June 2015

Closing date

16 July 2015

Contract start date

13 August 2015

Contract end date

12 August 2016

Contract type

Supply contract

Procedure type

Open procedure

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

The University of Liverpool has recently been awarded a substantial investment as part of the BBSRC road map for synthetic biology. The facility, GeneMill, will provide access to DNA synthesis, construction and phenotyping for the UK research community, developing high-throughput construct design, assembly and QC workflows.

Crucial to this venture is to build sufficient Molecular Biology capacity to meet the needs of our target community. We now seek to purchase those DNA synthesis and molecular biology reagents.

It is important to note that GeneMill is predicted to grow rapidly and so this tender should be seen as the beginning of a working relationship, not as a one-off purchase. We may purchase each lot from a different supplier and therefore you do not have to bid for all 5 Lots:

Lot 1 - Clonal DNA Synthesis (up to 1000 clones)
Lot 2 - Linear DNA Fragments (up to 1000 DNA fragments)
Lot 3 - Oligonucleotide Synthesis (up to 500,000 nt of ssDNA oligonucleotides)
Lot 4 - DNA Manipulation
Lot 5 - DNA Construct Assembly

More information

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Additional text

The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement, and the contract will be awarded on the basis of the most economically advantageous tender.

The tender documentation is located on the following web site https://in-tendhost.co.uk/liverpooluni Select 'Tenders' from the top menu bar, select 'current', then click 'view details' button. To gain full access to this website and tender documentation you need to log in using your existing registration details or click the 'Register' button if you have not registered before. When registering PLEASE make sure the 'publish e-mail address' field is completed accurately as this will receive all automated correspondence. Please return your tender as detailed in the document. The submitted tender will be evaluated in accordance with the criteria stated in the invitation to tender documents and companies may be invited to attend for interview as part of the process. All dates, time periods and quantities indicated in this Notice are provisional only and the university reserves the right to change the same if circumstances so dictate. The University reserves the right not to enter in to any contract pursuant to this Notice and to withdraw from this procurement exercise at any time. To view this notice, please click here: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta/respondToList.html?noticeId=148428494

About the buyer

Contact name

Mr Chris Silker

Address

Procurement
Foundation Building
Liverpool
L69 7ZX
UK

Telephone

01517942159

Email

silkerc@liv.ac.uk