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# The Supply, Delivery, Installation and Maintenance of a Floor Standing Ultracentrifuge

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/the-supply-delivery-installation-and-maintenance-of-a-floor-standing-ultracentrifuge-ocds-h6vhtk-02f0f8). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** MEDICINES DISCOVERY CATAPULT LIMITED: "The Supply, Delivery, Installation and Maintenance of a Floor Standing Ultracentrifuge". Published status: active. Published Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 29 Nov 2021, 12:00 GMT. Published submission portal: procontract.due-north.com.

## Key Information
- **Status:** ACTIVE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [MEDICINES DISCOVERY CATAPULT LIMITED](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/medicines-discovery-catapult-limited-coh-09928547)
- **Published Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** 29 November 2021 at 12:00 GMT
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** goods
- **Classifications (CPV):** Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)
- **Delivery Location:** UKD62
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-02f0f8`

## Before you bid
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- **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/the-supply-delivery-installation-and-maintenance-of-a-floor-standing-ultracentrifuge-ocds-h6vhtk-02f0f8#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [procontract.due-north.com](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fprocontract.due-north.com%2FRFx%2FRFxSummary%3FrfxId%3Defc1c0f1-d237-ec11-810e-005056b64545%26projectId%3D2304833c-ce37-ec11-810e-005056b64545)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/the-supply-delivery-installation-and-maintenance-of-a-floor-standing-ultracentrifuge-ocds-h6vhtk-02f0f8#participate

## Description
Medicines Discovery Catapult (MDC) is a national facility for collaborative R&D exploring and developing new approaches to the discovery and proof of well targeted medicines, diagnostics and biomarkers.  Funded by Innovate UK, an agency of the UK government, MDC are an independent not-for-profit company bringing together a fragmented UK sector of industry, academia, charities, technologists, services, finance companies, SMEs and start-ups who together can turn good science into new, high value products. By sharing problems, rare expertise and assets we support the growth of this new community through a time of radical business and national change.
MDC wishes to create a new CL3 facility for innovative diagnostics, biomarkers and complex medicines and develop the UK’s onshore diagnostic capability and capacity and the associated supply chain. The project will create a national facility for testing and validation of new diagnostics, biomarkers and innovative therapeutics for disease.
The Validation Centre of Excellence will enable innovators to set up new companies with confidence, driving regional growth in high-value jobs and a sector of urgent national and global need. The Centre will build on the Lighthouse brand, creating a hub for new diagnostic and therapeutic validation.
This tender is for a Floor Standing Ultracentrifuge, which will be used in the new facility.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** active

- **Delivery regions:** UKD

- **Contract Period:**  to 31/03/2022

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F027019-2021)
- **Last Source Update:** 2021-10-28T10:57:42.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-29T15:38:02.659Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-02f0f8