Awarded contract

QUB/2469/23 Contract for Supply, Delivery, Installation, Commissioning, Maintenance and Consumables for Spatial Transcriptomic Equipment

Details

Buyer: Queen's University Belfast
Supplier(s): 10x Genomics
Value: £2,500,000
Topic: Medical equipments
Published: 8 February 2024
Source: uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

The Genomics Core Technology Unit (GCTU) at QUB aims to broaden its current single-cell services with new spatial transcriptomic service capacity. The GCTU wishes to purchase single molecule in situ hybridisation spatial equipment with subcellular RNA transcript detection capability across whole tissue sections and/or tissue microarrays (TMAs). This piece of equipment should be flexible and offer targeted panels with ability to target custom transcripts as required. This instrument will be embedded alongside our current genomic service offerings to provide QUB researchers and the local research ecosystem with access to cutting-edge spatial technologies. Lot 1: The Genomics Core Technology Unit (GCTU) at QUB aims to broaden its current single-cell services with new spatial transcriptomic service capacity. The GCTU wishes to purchase single molecule in situ hybridisation spatial equipment with subcellular RNA transcript detection capability across whole tissue sections and/or tissue microarrays (TMAs). This piece of equipment should be flexible and offer targeted panels with ability to target custom transcripts as required. This instrument will be embedded alongside our current genomic service offerings to provide QUB researchers and the local research ecosystem with access to cutting-edge spatial technologies.One off purchase of equipment with an option to extend maintenance and the purchase of consumables beyond this period for a further period of up to 10 years or the end of useful life of the equipment.The University reserves the right to purchase additional Spatial Transcriptomic Equipment under this contract in the first 12 months if funding becomes available.

Timeline

Completed: Award date8 December 2023
Completed: Award published8 February 2024
Current notice

About the buyer

Queen's University Belfast is a higher education institution that runs its procurement through the Finance Directorate's procurement team. Suppliers register on the university's own e-tendering site to view and respond to current tenders. An accepted expression of interest opens the "my tenders" area, where full tender documents sit for registered suppliers. A Supply Chain Code of Conduct, tied to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, applies to every supplier. Contracts above the advertising threshold follow the Procurement Act 2023 and its regulations, in force since February 2025. The procurement team takes supplier and contract queries directly by email.

Education procurement reached £47.4bn in 2024/25, the fourth-largest public sector budget.

Over the past 5 years, most of Queen's University Belfast's contract awards have been in laboratory and precision equipment, industrial machinery and business services.

Relevant CPV codes

33100000 · Medical equipments
38434540 · Biomedical equipment

Decision makers

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