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North Western Universities Purchasing Consortium

Framework Agreement for High Value Laboratory Equipment

Medical Equipment & PharmaCPV 33000000 33100000 33110000 33111000 38000000 38300000 38340000 38400000 38430000 38500000 38510000 38511000 38514000
Value£185.0m
Awarded26 Sept 2023
Published27 Sept 2023
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£185.0mtotal contract value
median £123k
this tender£0£199.8m

This is a large award for Medical Equipment & Pharmaceuticals — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 9,456 valued Medical Equipment & Pharmaceuticals tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Please note that the contract conclusion is still to be finalised with further supplier(s) on Lots 1, 2, 3 and 4.

Once the contract(s) are concluded, a further contract award notice will be published.

NWUPC is seeking to establish a multi-provider Framework Agreement on behalf of the members of NWUPC, APUC, HEPCW, LUPC, NEUPC and SUPC for High Value Laboratory Equipment.

The Framework Agreement will be split into 5 lots as follows: Lot 1 - Magnetic Resonance Equipment, Lot 2 - X-Ray, Imaging, Elemental & Micro Analysis Equipment and Microscopy Instruments, Lot 3 - Spectroscopy Equipment, Lot 4 - Mechanical, Thermal and Physical Testing Equipment.

Lot 5 - Radiation Safety & Detection Equipment.

This Framework Agreement will commence on 01st August 2023 for an initial period of 24 months until 31st July 2025 with the option to extend the Agreement for 12 months until 31st July 2026 and a further 12 months until 31st July 2027 subject to satisfactory Economic Operator performance.

Coverage on this agreement shall be national - all of the United Kingdom including Northern Ireland.

The Framework Agreement will accessed by members of; NWUPC https://www.nwupc.ac.uk/our-members APUC https://www.apuc-scot.ac.uk/#!/members HEPCW http://www.hepcw.ac.uk/about-us-2/ LUPC https://www.lupc.ac.uk/member-list NEUPC https://www.neupc.ac.uk/our-members SUPC https://www.supc.ac.uk/about-us/our-members/our-members

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

Coverage on this agreement shall be national

Coverage on this agreement shall be national.

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What this notice demands of you

1 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

Framework agreement (any)Frameworks & routes to market
Framework Agreement for High Value Laboratory Equipment

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Stage
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20230927114142-91080
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