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title: "NCA21114 Tecan Freedom EVO"
ocid: "ocds-r6ebe6-0000698677"
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source: "Public Contracts Scotland"
current_stage: "Award"
buyer: "UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH"
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# NCA21114 Tecan Freedom EVO

Buyer: UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-r6ebe6-0000698677

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## Summary

The contract titled "NCA21114 Tecan Freedom EVO" has been awarded by the University of Edinburgh, a central purchasing body located at Charles Stewart House, 9-16 Chambers Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1HT. The procurement process, classified under the "goods" category, was conducted using a limited method without prior publication of a call for competition. The contract, related to advancing genomics technology, was signed on 21st February 2022, and has a total value of £187,600. This contract is now at the award stage, having completed prior phases.

This opportunity presents significant potential for businesses engaged in the biotechnology and laboratory equipment sectors, particularly those offering advanced genomic technologies. Companies that specialise in automated systems or related scientific instruments would be particularly suited to compete in future tenders from the University of Edinburgh or similar educational institutions. Leveraging this procurement might enable businesses to access new clients and expand their market presence within the academia-focused healthcare and research industries.

## Notice

Device to replace the current automated platform and will allow the processing of the new generation of genotyping arrays.

### Lot Information

Lot 1

The Tecan Freedom EVO will allow accurate processing of the new generation arrays, these have smaller beads that allows higher genomic content and increased samples per bead chip. Improvements in the workflow decreases processing time from 3 days to 2 days therefore allowing higher throughput. Improvements in reagents give better signal to noise ratio and, importantly, removes the need for formamide so safer for technicians and the environment. Genotyping and methylation arrays continue to be a popular and economical method for genomic investigation with many thousands of samples ran each year. The Genetics Core, Edinburgh Clinical Research Facility, has been running Illumina arrays since 2005. As a core facility it provides equitable access to researchers at all stages of their career on a simple cost-recovery model. The Tecan Freedom EVO will be used to process the new arrays as released. The first two confirmed arrays are: Global Clinical Research Array - a 24-sample bead chip with 1.3M markers Global Screening Array (v4) - an updated version of the GSA v3 but allowing 48 samples to be processed, increased from 24, so allowing higher throughput and reduced processing costs. This will support new and ongoing studies such as GenOMICC (Prof Baillie) where over 22k covid19 patient samples have been genotyped using the GSA (Nature 2021) and Generation Scotland (Prof Sudlow) as they collect and genotype a further 20k samples, as well as many small to medium sized projects across Edinburgh and the UK

### Procurement Information

Business Need Requirements (What will the Goods/Services/Works do? How does it help achieve a University objective/vision and/or tackle something which needs addressed or achieves benefits for the University?) The platform will replace the current Tecan automated platform and will allow the processing of the new generation of genotyping arrays ensuring the University has access to the latest genomics technology

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Public Contracts Scotland |
| Latest notice | https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=AUG455369 |
| Notice type | OJEU - F3 - 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 |
| All stages | Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 3 Aug 2022 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 21 Feb 2022 |
| Contract period | Not specified |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | £187,600 |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Complete |
| Awards status | Not specified |
| Contracts status | Active |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH |
| Locality | EDINBURGH |
| Post town | Edinburgh |
| Postcode | EH1 1HT |
| Country | Scotland |
| ITL 1 | TLM Scotland |
| ITL 2 | TLM1 East Central Scotland |
| ITL 3 | TLM13 City of Edinburgh |
| Local authority | City of Edinburgh |
| Electoral ward | City Centre |
| Westminster constituency | Edinburgh East and Musselburgh |
| Delivery location | TLM75 City of Edinburgh |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | ILLUMINA |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 42 - Industrial machinery

### Codes

- 42997300 - Industrial robots

## Release History

- 3 Aug 2022 at 00:00 - Award - OJEU - F3 - Contract Award Notice - https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=AUG455369

## Documents

- https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=AUG455369
  NCA21114 Tecan Freedom EVO - Device to replace the current automated platform and will allow the processing of the new generation of genotyping arrays.

## Notice URLs

- http://
- http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/procurement/supplying
- https://api.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/v1/Notice?id=ocds-r6ebe6-0000698677
- https://www.illumina.com/

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