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Newcastle University

(NU/1076) The Supply and Installation of Three Liquid Handling Robots

Laboratory EquipmentCPV 38000000 38300000 42997300
Value£277k
Awarded27 Aug 2015
Published20 Oct 2015
RegionNorth East
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£277ktotal contract value
median £70k
this tender£0£588k

This is a large award for Laboratory & Precision Equipment — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 9,869 valued Laboratory & Precision Equipment tenders in our corpus.

The brief

This tender is a call-off on the APUC Framework Agreement BA-LAB045 for Liquid Handling Robots.

There are 3 lots.

Lot 1: Liquid Handling Robot for the Transfer of Micro-organisms This liquid handling robot will be used within a faculty-wide facility in the FMS.

The facility is managed by dedicated staff with expertise in robotics to assist other users.

The robot will primarily be used for the transfer of micro-organisms from liquid cultures to solid agar plates and from liquid cultures to glycerol stocks for long term storage.

The unit will also serve as backup for mammalian cell screening.

Lot 2: Liquid Handling Robot for Next-Generation Sequencing library preparation and sample processing This liquid handling robot will be used within the Newcastle University Single Cell Functional Genomics Unit (NUSCU), a faculty wide facility based within the FMS.

The robot will operate in a single cell low template copy number environment and will be used to support sample processing for next-generation sequencing including target enrichment (for example Illumina based methods and Agilent SureSelect and Haloplex and library preparation).

Lot 3: Liquid Handling Robot for post-PCR sample clean-up and high throughput liquid handling This liquid handling robot will be used within the NUSCU.

The robot will operate in a general lab and will be used to support routine high through-put liquid handling tasks including post-PCR sample clean-up, dilution, cherry picking and aliquoting.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

The robot will operate in a single

The robot will operate in a single cell low template copy number environment and will be used to support sample processing for next-generation sequencing including target enrichment (for example Illumina based methods and Agilent SureSelect and Haloplex and library preparation).

02

The robot will operate in a general

The robot will operate in a general lab and will be used to support routine high through-put liquid handling tasks including post-PCR sample clean-up, dilution, cherry picking and aliquoting.

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The gates

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
This tender is a call-off on the APUC Framework Agreement BA-LAB045 for Liquid Handling Robots.

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