What the buyer wrote
: A direct award has been made due to extreme urgency pursuant to regulation 32(2)(c) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. The Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) asked UK Biocentre to expand their operations to analyse swab samples to determine whether an individual has COVID-19. In order to provide this service UK Biocentre have had to urgently expand their operations and procure additional liquid handling machines from the manufacturer Tecan UK Limited.
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Details
- What the buyer calls it
- Covid-19 Tecan award
- How they are buying
- Given to one supplier, no competitionNobody else was asked, and the buyer has to be able to justify that.
- Type
- goods
- Work starts
- 26 Mar 2020
- Work ends
- 26 Mar 2021
Who the buyer named
Josef Braithwaite was the named contact on this notice.