NextSeq2000 Sequencing System · UK public procurement notice

CPV: Biomedical equipment

Procedure method

Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition

Legal basis

CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)

Procurement category

Goods

Notice status

Awarded without competition

Procurement threshold

Unspecified in notice

Regulatory regime

Standard

Commercial structure

Stand-alone contract (no framework)

Competition type

Direct award (no call for competition)

GPA / WTO covered

Yes (GPA)

Recurring procurement

Unspecified in notice

First published

29 Sept 2022, 10:28 BST

Last source update

4 Nov 2022, 11:16 GMT

Authority reference

Reference Number: DAC10826

FTS notice number

2022/S 000-031196

Classification (CPV)

Biomedical equipment

Delivery area

Northern Ireland (UKN)

Official registry OCID

ocds-h6vhtk-037144 Find a Tender

Why no open competition

The works, supplies or services can be provided only by a particular economic operator due to absence of competition for technical reasons

Published justification

The Western Health and Social Care Trust are relying on regulation 32(2)(b), competition is absent for technical reasons. Illumina is the sole supplier of this specific high throughput sequencing technology/ platform. Illumina sequencing technology, sequencing by synthesis (SBS), is a widely adopted next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology worldwide. Illumina sequencing instruments and reagents support massively parallel, high-throughput sequencing using a proprietary method that detects single bases as they are incorporated into growing DNA strands. Nextseq2000 provides higher sensitivity to detect low-frequency variants, faster turnaround time for high sample volumes, comprehensive genomic coverage, lower limit of detection, higher capacity with sample multiplexing, ability to sequence hundreds to thousands of genes or gene regions simultaneously.

Publisher note: On September 29, 2022, a VEAT was published (Notice reference 2022/S 000-027286), and no challenges were received within the ten-day standstill period. The initial VEAT was only for the purchase of the equipment, but the Contract Award Notice includes subsequent maintenance, which will be paid for by CTRIC rather than the Western Health and Social Care Trust, thus the disparity in values.

• Illumina Cambridge LtdAwarded supplier 19 Granta Park, Great Abington, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, East of England, CB21 6DF

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