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Published 9 Sept 2026, 11:57 BST
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UOEUE2790222026

University of Exeter
Education
Below threshold - without competition
No classification published
South West (UKK)
Published value
Not published
Contract value exc. VAT
Submission deadline
Open opportunity
complete
Lots published
1
Lots published in procedure
Contract duration
Below threshold - without competition
Published delivery schedule
Electronic Sourcing Gateway:
Published portal

What is being bought & procurement scope

Procurement Scope & Specification
Tenderline summary generated from the published notice
Executive Summary: University of Exeter: "UOEUE2790222026". Published status: complete. Published value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Official Requirement Description:
Oxford Nanopore DNA sequencing flow cells, sequencing kits and PCR barcoding consumables for laboratory DNA sequencing.

Lots and requirements (1)

Procurement Structure
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #LOT-0000
    Individual lot title not published
    complete
    Published valueNot published
    The source published no individual title or description for this lot.
    Contract period:
    Not published
    Eligibility:
    Not published

Qualification snapshot & criteria

Go / No-Go Decision Box
Criteria & entry requirements
Evaluation weighting
Award criteria weighting not published in structured data — consult the tender pack documents.
Incumbent & Market Position
Top Retained Vendor (Authority Spend)Twist BioscienceHolds 32.5% of historical attributable spend
Moderate Concentration
Entry requirements & qualification
  • Turnover Benchmark
    Guideline requirement: ~2× annual contract value annual turnover.Per Cabinet Office EFS 2026 & Sourcing Playbook: general proportionality cap (~2× run-rate), not an automatic disqualifier.
  • Insurance Commitments (No Upfront Purchase Needed)
    Standard public thresholds: Employer Liability (£5m), Public Liability (£5m-£10m), Professional Indemnity (£1m-£5m).✓ Commitment required upon award only — no upfront policy purchase needed to bid
  • Accreditations & Security Vetting
    Check tender pack for Cyber Essentials Plus (PPN 014 risk-proportional), ISO 27001/9001, and BPSS / SC security clearance requirements for named delivery personnel.
    • Source: Cabinet Office Sourcing Playbook & EFS Guidance.

    Buyer track record & authority intelligence: University of Exeter

    Rolling 24 months
    Derived from OCDS data
    Published track record for University of Exeter. These figures describe a rolling 24-month window, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
    Avg price drop
    Not availableEarly / insufficient sample
    Needs a published budget AND award for the same procedure
    Competition Density
    Not availableNo published reports
    Single-bidder rate: Not published
    Supplier Concentration
    Moderate Concentration
    Twist BioscienceTop vendor: 32.5% of attributable value
    Published spend
    £2,538,051Historical spend
    Cumulative GBP spend across 24 retained awards
    Typical award value
    £46,605Robust (n=24)
    Middle 50% of awards: £37,530 – £100,037
    Awarded spend by half-year
    2024-H2
    2025-H1
    2025-H2
    2026-H1
    2026-H2
    Methodology & coverage notes (24 active published awards)
    Coverage: 24 active published awards; 0 bid reports (which may be per lot); 24 valued awards. 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. Every figure carries an evidence level: Robust (5+ observations), Moderate (3–4), Indicative (1–2). Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
    Historical Awarded Suppliers in this Category (CPV 33):
    Supplier Name
    Historic Awards
    Attributable Value
    Avg. Price Discount
    Twist Bioscience1 win£825,000No published budget
    Olink Proteomics AB2 wins£449,135No published budget
    ILLUMINA CAMBRIDGE LIMITED4 wins£264,578No published budget
    PACIFIC BIOSCIENCES UK, LTD.2 wins£200,588No published budget
    UK Biobank Ltd1 win£161,327No published budget

    Sector Market Benchmark & Opportunity Radar

    CPV 33 · UK Sector Analysis
    Observed CPV-sector evidence
    Prepared 9 Sept 2026, 13:36 BST
    Observed CPV-sector evidence where it exists, with clearly labelled UK all-sector context for sparse fields; this is market context, not a bid forecast.
    Median Winning Discount
    0.41%
    CPV sector evidence · 63 comparable price observations
    Typical Bids Received
    2reported bids
    CPV sector evidence · 2,422 published bid reports
    Decision Velocity
    ~66 days
    CPV sector evidence · median from 110 completed procedures
    Notice Stability
    Stable notice
    Published terms remained unchanged
    Top Contenders in this Sector (CPV 33)
    Active commercial suppliers winning public contracts in this field
    Supplier
    Awards won
    Total awarded value
    Avg. winning discount
    GILEAD SCIENCES LTDCRN: PPDW-8775-RCQV
    		43 contracts£8,430,726,286At ceiling / not disclosed
    INNOVA MEDICAL GROUP INC.
    		8 contracts£3,688,690,460At ceiling / not disclosed
    Airborne Systems North America
    		1 contract£3,240,000,000At ceiling / not disclosed
    Merck Sharpe & Dohme (UK) LimitedCRN: 233687
    		41 contracts£2,400,000,005At ceiling / not disclosed
    Bio Products Laboratory LtdCRN: 07343036
    		22 contracts£1,604,223,396At ceiling / not disclosed
    See Contracts Finder Notice for full supplier list
    		2 contracts£1,540,500,000At ceiling / not disclosed
    ABBVIE LTDCRN: PHRQ-1133-WGCH
    		62 contracts£1,211,373,117At ceiling / not disclosed
    Full list of successful suppliers is available on Contracts Finder
    		2 contracts£1,000,000,000At ceiling / not disclosed
    Fortem Solutions LimitedCRN: 04638969
    		6 contracts£700,000,000At ceiling / not disclosed
    Fresenius Medical Care
    		8 contracts£602,156,209At ceiling / not disclosed
    Comparable Published Opportunities & Re-tender Precedents
    Historic records ranked from matching published evidence. They serve as research precedents for contract scoping, specifications, and previous awardees.
    No sufficiently evidenced comparable record has been calculated yet.
    Method: tender-intelligence-v1. Empirical OCDS facts and cross-sector percentiles; missing fields remain unrecorded.

    Procedure terms & legal framework

    Procedure methodBelow threshold - without competitionLegal basis
    UKPGA · 2023/54
    Procurement Act 2023
    		Procurement categoryServices
    Notice statuscompleteProcurement thresholdSub-thresholdRegulatory regimeStandard commercial regime
    Commercial structureStand-alone contract (No framework)Competition typeCompetitive procedureGPA WTO coveredUnspecified in notice
    Recurring procurementNo (One-off requirement)First published9 Sept 2026, 11:57 BSTLast source update9 Sept 2026, 11:57 BST
    Classification (CPV)Unspecified in notice
    Delivery areaLocation not published
    Official Registry OCIDocds-h6vhtk-06f57e
    Timeline
    1. Procedure published
      9 Sept 2026, 11:57 BST
    2. Award active
      Not published · Not published
    3. Contract active
      Signed 12 May 2026, 01:00 BST · £25,770

    Commercial outcome and contract awards

    Awards (1)
    Oxford Nanopore Technologies
    Not published · Not published · active · lots LOT-0000
    Contracts (1)
    UOEUE2790222026
    £25,770 · signed 12 May 2026, 01:00 BST · active
    Contract period: 13 May 2026, 01:00 BST — 13 May 2027, 23:59 BST
    Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
    Notice history
    From official release and amendment events
    1. Official notice release published
      9 Sept 2026, 11:57 BST

    Buyer and organisations in this procedure

    1 participating organisation

    University of Exeter

    Contracting authority
    Education
    GB-PPON-PZYG-2396-XCRZ
    View buyer profile →
    Other participating organisations & roles (1)

    • Oxford Nanopore Technologies
      supplier

      GB-PPON: PNQY-3648-RQHN
      Edmund Cartwright House, 4 Robert Robinson Avenue, Oxford, UKJ14, OX4 4GA, GB
      [email protected]

    Official Documents & Specifications (1)

    Official links; attachments are not copied