Stale Pre-tender

EC1007 Life Science, Lab & Vet Consumables Framework

Details

Buyer: University of Edinburgh
Topic: Medical equipments
Published: 30 July 2025
Source: uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

The University of Edinburgh (UoE) wishes to publicise a future opportunity for a new framework for Life Science Consumables and Vet Pharmaceuticals. As part of the development process, UoE is seeking views and information from the market in connection with those areas set out in this Request for Supplier Information (RFI) attached to this notice. Please note that any information provided, including estimated contract notice publication date is subject to change. Lot 3: Bespoke/Custom Life Science Deliverables Suppliers of custom molecular biology kits (e.g. DNA extraction, ligation, cloning), built to specification. Use of punchout is mandatory. Must support community benefits and provide annual sustainability updates. Subject to annual price review. Lot 2: Labs and Life Science Consumables Suppliers offering 12 or more product categories via hosted catalogue with guaranteed stock availability. Competitive pricing will be benchmarked across suppliers. Must support community benefits and provide annual sustainability updates. Subject to annual price review Lot 5: Vet Pharmaceuticals and Consumables Suppliers of veterinary consumables and regulated pharmaceuticals will work collaboratively with the University of Edinburgh throughout the contract term to adopt hosted catalogue and punchout capabilities, aiming to streamline ordering processes. They must ensure stock availability, offer competitive pricing through promotions and discounts, support community benefits, and provide regular sustainability updates. All contracts will be subject to an annual price review and quarterly meetings. Lot 1: UoE Laboratory Supply Chain Partners Suppliers must have the ability to provide a wide portfolio of lab products across all listed categories through hosted catalogues and/or punchout. Suppliers should actively collaborate with UoE as partners to ensure stock availability, deliver competitive pricing via promotions and discounts, support community benefits, and provide regular sustainability updates. Ongoing partnership engagement will be maintained through quarterly contract management meetings and annual price reviews. Lot 4: Lab and Medical Equipment/Devices Suppliers of laboratory and medical equipment under 10,000GBP, including benchtop instruments and items like stethoscopes. Must support community benefits and provide annual sustainability updates. Subject to annual price review.

Timeline

Completed: Pre-tender published30 July 2025
Current notice

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

33100000 · Medical equipments
33140000 · Medical consumables
33600000 · Pharmaceutical products
33651690 · Vaccines for veterinary medicine
33696500 · Laboratory reagents
33698100 · Microbiological cultures
33793000 · Laboratory glassware
38000000 · Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)
38437000 · Laboratory pipettes and accessories
73000000 · Research and development services and related consultancy services

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

Job title	Phone number	Work email
Head of Procurement	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@university-of-edinburgh.gov
Commercial Director	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@university-of-edinburgh.gov
Procurement Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@university-of-edinburgh.gov
Category Lead	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@university-of-edinburgh.gov
Senior Buyer	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@university-of-edinburgh.gov
Contracts Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@university-of-edinburgh.gov