Awarded contract

Automated Workflow System

Details

Supplier(s)
DA VINCI LABORATORY SOLUTIONS UK & IRELAND LIMITED
Value
£100,000
Duration
1 year
Topic
Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)
Published
8 December 2025

Tender description

The system is to provide derivatisation of archaeological lipid extracts using N,O-Bis(trimethylsilyl)trifluoroacetamide (BSTFA). The system should enable sample derivatisation and preparation for injection to occur concurrently with the GC-MS analysis of the preceding sample. The primary objectives are to improve process consistency, maximise instrument efficiency, and minimise manual handling, sample loss, and the risk of cross-contamination. Scope is to include the supply, delivery, installation and commissioning and associated services. ## Contract award

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award published8 December 2025
    Current notice
  2. Completed: Award date8 December 2025
  3. Next: Contract expiry date1 December 2026in 3 weeks

About the buyer

The University of York is an English university in Heslington, York, with its own Procurement Office. Membership of the North Eastern Universities Purchasing Consortium gives access to its framework agreements. Those NEUPC frameworks are the first resort before an alternative route is considered. Most orders are placed directly by departments through the York e-purchasing system, known as YEP.

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

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