Notice Information
Notice Title
Duo Digital Dispenser
Notice Description
The UK Dementia Research Institute (UKDRI) based at the Edinburgh BioQuarter, is a centre of excellence for life sciences research and development. The UK DRI at Edinburgh aims to piece together how the different cells, systems and processes work together to keep our brains healthy as we age, and what goes wrong to trigger neurodegenerative disease. To assist with the research and studies, the institute requires a Duo Digital Dispenser to enhance drug screening and development capabilities. This is a new-to-market device to assist in a push towards testing more complex drug combinations at greater throughput whilst maintaining robustness, a process which is costly in terms of time and consumables with currently available equipment.
Lot Information
Lot 1
The UK Dementia Research Institute (UKDRI) based at the Edinburgh BioQuarter, is a centre of excellence for life sciences research and development. The UK DRI at Edinburgh aims to piece together how the different cells, systems and processes work together to keep our brains healthy as we age, and what goes wrong to trigger neurodegenerative disease. To assist with the research and studies, the institute requires a Duo Digital Dispenser to enhance drug screening and development capabilities. This is a new-to-market device to assist in a push towards testing more complex drug combinations at greater throughput whilst maintaining robustness, a process which is costly in terms of time and consumables with currently available equipment.
Procurement Information
The selected equipment's unique combination of nanolitre-scale multi-drug dispensing, software-driven randomisation, and audit trails is essential for the institution's higher-order combination studies. The equipment will form a core part of the UK-DRI high-throughput drug discovery pipeline, removing the current bottleneck in setting up complex combination assays. Manual/standard liquid handling makes 2-4 drug combinations across 96-1536-well plates slow, error-prone, and reagent-intensive, constraining study design and reproducibility. The equipment enables picolitre-nanolitre dispensing of single agents and combinations directly into assay plates, allowing the facility to; - Generate large combination matrices in minutes rather than hours/days. - Randomise well layouts across replicates to reduce positional bias and batch effects. - Substantially reduce compound usage and plastic waste. Critically, 3-4 drug combinations have not been attempted manually due to the planning and pipetting burden; the equipment will make this task routine, enabling rigorous higher-order combination studies across multiple cell types and doses. The instrument also supports precise low-volume dispensing for PCR and proteomics workflows, enabling integrated biomarker studies from the same samples. The facility already has the manufacturer's equipment installed, although integration is not part of this purchase, this provides the users with familiarity with the system and minimises training, setup and the time required to get up to speed with the equipment. Although this doesn't form part of the justification for this Non-Competitive Action, this is advantageous to the facility.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-r6ebe6-0000816752
- Publication Source
- Public Contracts Scotland
- Latest Notice
- https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=NOV544248
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- PCS Notice - Website Contract Award Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Goods
- Procurement Method
- Limited
- Procurement Method Details
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Large
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
38 - Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)
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- CPV Codes
38000000 - Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- Not specified
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £57,340 Under £100K
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 25 Nov 20253 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 21 Nov 20253 months ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Complete
- Awards Status
- Not Specified
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
- Contact Name
- Not specified
- Contact Email
- mritchi7@ed.ac.uk
- Contact Phone
- +44 1316502759
Buyer Location
- Locality
- EDINBURGH
- Postcode
- EH1 1HT
- Post Town
- Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLM Scotland
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLM1 East Central Scotland
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLM13 City of Edinburgh
- Delivery Location
- TLM75 City of Edinburgh
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- Local Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Electoral Ward
- City Centre
- Westminster Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh
Further Information
Notice Documents
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https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=NOV544248
Duo Digital Dispenser - The UK Dementia Research Institute (UKDRI) based at the Edinburgh BioQuarter, is a centre of excellence for life sciences research and development. The UK DRI at Edinburgh aims to piece together how the different cells, systems and processes work together to keep our brains healthy as we age, and what goes wrong to trigger neurodegenerative disease. To assist with the research and studies, the institute requires a Duo Digital Dispenser to enhance drug screening and development capabilities. This is a new-to-market device to assist in a push towards testing more complex drug combinations at greater throughput whilst maintaining robustness, a process which is costly in terms of time and consumables with currently available equipment.
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