Awarded contract

HTPU Innopsys

Details

Supplier(s)
Shelford Scientific
Value
£58,000
Topic
Scanners
Published
3 March 2025

Tender description

The Host and Tumour Profiling Unit (HTPU) currently houses an Innopsys Innoscan 710 AL. This is now at end of life and requires replacement. Lot 1: Competition is absent for technical reasons, but only where no reasonable alternative or substitute exists and the absence of competition is not the result of an artificial narrowing down of the parameters of the procurement.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award date19 November 2024
  2. Completed: Award published3 March 2025
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About the buyer

University of Edinburgh buys as a higher education institution, through its own Procurement function. Larger tenders are advertised on Public Contract Scotland, via the PCS-T e-tendering platform. Suppliers must register separately on both systems before bidding. Much of this procurement flows through framework agreements with APUC, Scotland Excel and the Crown Commercial Service. Prior information notices invite market engagement from suppliers ahead of larger tenders. The Strategic Procurement team leads regulated sourcing, while Operational Procurement manages day-to-day purchase orders. A Procurement Support team handles reporting, data analysis and training across the function.

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

Over the past 5 years, most of University of Edinburgh's contract awards have been in laboratory and precision equipment, medical equipment and pharmaceuticals and software and information systems.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 38520000 · Scanners

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