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# Supply, delivery, installation, and commissioning of automated liquid handlers Tender

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/supply-delivery-installation-and-commissioning-of-automated-liquid-handlers-tender-ocds-h6vhtk-05e55f). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** UK Biobank Ltd: "Supply, delivery, installation, and commissioning of automated liquid handlers Tender". Published status: complete. Published Value: £3,200,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 12 Jan 2026, 12:00 GMT. Published submission portal: www.mytenders.co.uk.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [UK Biobank Ltd](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/uk-biobank-ltd-GB-PPON-PXGY-4832-TWCN)
- **Published Value:** £3,200,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 12 January 2026 at 12:00 GMT
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** goods
- **Classifications (CPV):** Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Awarded Value:** £3,200,000 (exc. VAT, 1 award)
- **Official Documents:** 11 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/supply-delivery-installation-and-commissioning-of-automated-liquid-handlers-tender-ocds-h6vhtk-05e55f#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-05e55f`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/supply-delivery-installation-and-commissioning-of-automated-liquid-handlers-tender-ocds-h6vhtk-05e55f#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [mytenders.co.uk](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mytenders.co.uk)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/supply-delivery-installation-and-commissioning-of-automated-liquid-handlers-tender-ocds-h6vhtk-05e55f#participate

## Description
UK Biobank (UKB) requires a supplier with the necessary capacity and capability to supply, deliver, install, and commission robotic
automated liquid handlers. UKB requires the Supplier to provide the System and be responsible for the design, implementation, testing,
commissioning, and training and service support. Detail of the requirements for the goods and services are set out within the
Specification.
UKB is responsible for the safe preservation and scientific exploitation of over 17 million Samples (plasma, serum, buffy coat,
extracted DNA, urine and saliva) that are accessible for approved use by academic and industry researchers. About 11 million Samples
are stored at -80°C across an Automated Storage System and other manual Freezers at UKB's headquarters in Stockport, Greater
Manchester. The remaining 6 million Samples are stored in vapour phase Liquid Nitrogen Tanks at a Backup Site in the South of
England.
UKB undertakes the supply of Samples for different sizes of research projects:
• from handfuls to ~5,000 Cherry Picked Samples for piloting or case-control studies (where Samples are likely picked from across the
whole collection);
• projects involving ~50,000 Samples (with some degree of Cherry Picking);
• longitudinal sets of Samples for the same Participants over several time-points; and/or
• retrieval of whole cohort sets (~500,000 Samples, with a higher density of Samples clustered together).
UKB's next phase of strategic development will be characterised by increasing demand for access to Samples and several new
large-scale Sample collections. UKB, therefore, requires new Systems with sufficient capacity, flexibility, and resilience to support the
next 10 years of work as set out in this Specification. The System should deliver capacity to Reformat Samples to send to researchers to
conduct assays and provide capability to process Vacutainers.
Consequently, UKB has prepared a Specification for a Solution to meet the increased throughput demands that the new site must
support foreseeable operational requirements and potential future developments, including but not limited to;
• Increase in Sample supply to external laboratories at least four-fold (1 million Samples per year); Reformatting.
• Extensive new Sample collections from UKB Participants (and potentially their relatives) at multiple future time-points; Vacutainer
Processing.
• Prospective creation of whole cohort Destination Samples (for projects) whilst a Stock Sample is thawed for processing, split the
remaining Sample across multiple storage Tubes; Reformatting.
• Likely change to alternative Labware for new Sample collections and selective reformatting of existing Samples coincident with their
next freeze-thaw cycle or en-masse; Reformatting.
The System will be required to support UKB laboratory operations when they move to a New Site at the Manchester Science Park in
the City of Manchester in the North West of England, UK. Practical completion of the New Site is planne...
> [Read full procurement scope and specification on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/supply-delivery-installation-and-commissioning-of-automated-liquid-handlers-tender-ocds-h6vhtk-05e55f)

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 38000000
- **Delivery regions:** UK
- **Delivery countries in notice:** GB
- **Estimated Value:** £3,200,000

- **Contract Period:** 27/03/2026 to 26/03/2029
- **Renewal published:** yes

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** Automated Liquid Handlers (active)
  - Award id: `1`
  - Supplier(s): **HAMILTON SALES & SERVICE UK LTD, Hamilton Sales & Service UK Ltd**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-177928`
  - Value: £3,200,000 (exc. VAT)
  - Date: 06/03/2026

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** 1 (active)
  - Signed Value: £791,450
  - Signed Date: 17/06/2026

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F075623-2025)
- **Last Source Update:** 2026-07-09T14:13:56.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-21T12:29:09.278Z
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