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SC21088 - Purchase of Scientific Equipment

Laboratory
optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)
South East (UKJ4)
Published value
Not published
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
Procurement Executive Summary
AI & Search Synopsis
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Tenderline Synopsis: Kent County Council: "SC21088 - Purchase of Scientific Equipment". Published status: complete. Published value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityKent County CouncilScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
complete
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)Not published
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: Kent County Council
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Derived from OCDS awards & bid statistics
Published history for Kent County Council. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Published-to-award variance
Not availableInsufficient comparable data
Requires at least 5 comparable procedures
Competition Density
8.9Bids / Report
21.3% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationNo estimate
Insufficient attributable awardsNo concentration estimate available
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Payment obligations depend on the applicable regime and contract. Consult the official documents.
Coverage: 94 active published awards; 80 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Published-to-award variance compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityKent County Council
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statuscomplete
Framework / DPSNot published
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published17 Nov 2021, 16:00 GMT
Last source update17 Nov 2021, 16:00 GMT
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationLaboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)
Delivery area
South East (UKJ4)
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-02f7ad
What is being bought
Kent Scientific Services currently has funding available to spend on a liquid chromatography mass spectrometer triple quadrupole, as gas chromatography mass spectrometer single quadrupole, a high-performance liquid chromatography instrument with diode array detector and a high-performance liquid chromatography mass spectrometer with diode array detector and fluorescence detector.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Status changed to complete
    17 Nov 2021, 16:00 GMT
  2. Official notice release published
    17 Nov 2021, 16:00 GMT
  3. Buyer information updated
    17 Nov 2021, 16:00 GMT
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    cancelled
    Published valueNot published
    Under Regulation 32 of the 2015 Public Contract Regulations (b) (ii) this allows the procedure to be used where the works, supplies or services can be supplied only by a particular economic operator for (ii) Competition is absent for technical reasons. The purchase of the equipment is highly technical and the use of any other technology would result in significant changes and costs to the overall service.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Procedure published
    17 Nov 2021, 16:00 GMT
  2. Award active
    Not published · Not published
  3. Contract active
    Signed 19 Oct 2021, 00:00 BST · £260,000
Commercial outcome and competition
Awards
Agilent Technologies LDA UK Ltd
Not published · Not published · active
Contracts
Contract
£260,000 · signed 19 Oct 2021, 00:00 BST · active
Bid statistics
bids: 1 (lot 1)
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Kent County Council

Contracting authority GB-FTS-1163
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  • Kent County Council
    buyer

    County Hall, Maidstone, UKJ4, ME14 1XQ
    craig.merchant@kent.gov.uk
    +44 3000416475

  • Agilent Technologies LDA UK Ltd
    supplier

    Spectrum Building, Becquerel Ave, Didcot, UKJ4, OX11 0RA

  • Kent County Council
    reviewBody

    Maidstone, ME14 1XQ
Documents (0)
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Related procedures (0)
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No related procedures published
Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Procedure rationaleUnder Regulation 32 of the 2015 Public Contract Regulations (b) (ii) this allows the procedure to be used where the works, supplies or services can be supplied only by a particular economic operator for (ii) Competition is absent for technical reasons. The purchase of the equipment is highly technical and the use of any other technology would result in significant changes and costs to the overall service.