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The Provision and Maintenance of Two Mass Spectrometry systems

Engineering & ArchitectureCPV 38000000

Value£1.2m

Deadline13 Oct 2026

Published11 Sept 2026

RegionNationwide

Timeline

Published 11 Sept 202631 days leftCloses 13 Oct 2026

Who to contact

Science Commercial Manager

commercial@mhra.gov.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit

Open the submissions portal

To express interest and participate in the tender, please register and apply via Atamis e-sourcing portal https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome Should Tenderers have any queries, or having problems using the portal, they should contact Helpdesk at: Phone: 0800 9956035 E-mail: support-health@atamis.co.uk

The submission route named on the official notice.

Contract value in context

£1.2mtotal contract value

median £70k

this tender£0£1.3m

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.

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The brief

The MHRA has a requirement to award a contract for The Provision and Maintenance of Two Mass Spectrometry systems to one Tenderer as replacements of two Triple Quad Mass Spectrometers (s/n TQH-Q1-0526 and TQH-Q1-0525) for quantification and characterisation of biological medicine standards, including influenza, and to support counterfeit and sub-potent medicine characterisation.

These systems are to be purchased with service maintenance and any bespoke consumables required to run the systems as follows: System 1.

A high-resolution mass spectrometer coupled with a low flow liquid chromatography (LC) system (hereinafter referred to as a “high resolution mass spectrometry system” or “HRMS system”).

The system should include all the instrumentation and software to allow qualitative and quantitative analysis of samples in a wide range of complex biological matrices in the areas of proteomics, intact protein analysis, biopharmaceutical characterisation, e.g. multi-attribute monitoring of therapeutic antibodies, post-translational modifications and small molecules/metabolomics as well as glycoproteins and oligonucleotides (OGNs).

System 2.

A triple quadrupole mass spectrometer coupled with an ultra-high performance liquid chromatography (UPLC) (hereinafter referred to as a “triple quad MS system”).

The system should include all the instrumentation and software to allow for high throughput targeted quantitative analysis across biopharma, clinical and small molecule applications, supporting large SRM/MRM panels.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

These systems are to be purchased

These systems are to be purchased with service maintenance and any bespoke consumables required to run the systems as follows:.

The system should include all the instrumentation

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