Awarded contract

QUB/2600/24 Supply of a high throughput nano/microflow liquid chromatography system

Details

Value
£300,000
Topic
Chromatographs
Published
5 March 2025

Tender description

Supply of a high throughput nano/microflow liquid chromatography system for proteomics applications. The system will be optimized for rapid analysis of proteomics samples via online coupling to an existing mass spectrometry system (quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry with nano/low microflow electrospray system and trapped ion mobility separations). The system will be used for high throughput proteomics applications associated with the Future Medicines Institute at QUB and situated within the School of Biological Sciences 19 Chlorine Gardens, Belfast, BT9 5DL. Lot 1: The Northern Ireland Precision Biomarkers and Therapeutics Consortium (NIPBT) is an industry-focused partnership of Life and Health Science (LHS) companies and Academia, aligned to NI Health and Economy strategies. By addressing critical commercial gaps, the Consortium's aim is to transform the productivity of each Commercial Partner and the broader LHS sector in NI. NIPBT will deploy the grant funding to collaboratively develop R&D capabilities that industry partners require.Queen’s is leading and hosting this research hub, as such is tasked with procuring and installing a high throughput nano/microflow liquid chromatography system for proteomics applications. The system will be optimized for rapid analysis of proteomics samples via online coupling to an existing mass spectrometry system (quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry with nano/low microflow electrospray system and trapped ion mobility separations). The system will be used for high throughput proteomics applications associated with the Future Medicines Institute at QUB and situated within the School of Biological Sciences 19 Chlorine Gardens, Belfast, BT9 5DL.• Please note: - The execution of this tender & contract will be solely dependent on grant funding being received, which is estimated to be confirmed in January 2025.• No award will be made, or orders issued until the grant funding has been confirmed. If grant funding is not secured, the market will be notified, and this procurement exercise will be stood down.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award date17 February 2025
  2. Completed: Award published5 March 2025
    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

  • 38432200 · Chromatographs
  • 38522000 · Chromatographic scanners

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