The Aperlena Verdict
Open raceNo supplier dominates: 10 different companies have won the last 10 comparable contracts from this buyer over 5 years. This is a genuinely open race.
Based on 10 comparable awards by this buyer in this sector over 5 years. Every verdict is recorded before the outcome and graded against the award notice. How we score ourselves.
Summary
Machine-generated summaryThe project involves replacing a strategic piece of equipment used to manufacture peptides, molecules essential to contemporary biomedical research. Peptides serve both as drug candidates and as tools for understanding how proteins involved in diseases function. Their importance continues to grow in the fields of health and biotechnology. The procurement covers an automated peptide synthesiser intended to maintain this research capability.
Description
Terms of the procedure
- How tenders are scored
- Quality: 45 percent; Price: 30 percent; Quality: 8 percent; Quality: 3 percent; Quality: 3 percent; Quality: 11 percent
- Small firms
- The buyer marks this procedure as suitable for small and medium-sized firms.
As the official notice states them.
Bid or no-bid?
Six questions before you commit a team. Under each one, what the register holds on it. The answers are yours.
Can I bid?
- Open procedure: any interested supplier may submit a bid. Above the EU threshold: open to companies from any EU country.
- The notice is written in French.
- Certificates from another EU country? Check the equivalents on eCertis
Official source
Source: TED - Tenders Electronic Daily (Publications Office of the EU)
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Last verified against TED - Tenders Electronic Daily (Publications Office of the EU) 14 hours ago
Expected award price
- likely award for this notice, from its published estimate of €153,472
- €139,660 to €153,472
Comparable awards in this country and sector came in at a median of 100% of their published estimate, half of them between 91% and 100%, based on 53 awards of the last 3 years.
Each award is compared with the estimate of the same lots, framework agreements excluded. A published estimate may include options and renewals, so an award under it is not always a discount.
What this buyer has paid before
Based on 9 comparable contracts this buyer awarded in this sector over the last 4 years.
- This notice
- €153,472
- Median award
- €182,136
- Middle half of past awards
- €141,000 to €385,454
The estimate sits inside the usual range.
Most recent awards
- Instruments d'optique - Acquisition d’un laser à colorant continu en anneau pour des expériences de spectroscopie laser dans des décharges plasma €182,136
- Équipements de laboratoire, d'optique et de précision (excepté les lunettes) - Acquisition d'une console de spectromètre RMN 850 MHz €644,014
- Analyseurs - Acquisition d'un système complet : générateur de signaux microondes modulés large bande (VSG) et analyseur de signaux microondes modulés large bande (VSA) jusqu'à 67GHz €252,926
- Équipements de laboratoire, d'optique et de précision (excepté les lunettes) - Acquisition d'un perméamètre 500°C-500bar €139,579
- Spectromètre de masse - ACQUISITION D'UN SPECTROMETRE DE MASSE PAR PLASMA A COUPLAGE INDUCTIF ICP-MS €385,454
Award values as published by the official sources. Use them as a guide, not a rule: scope, lots and duration differ between contracts.
The buyer
Full buyer profileCNRS Délégation Centre Limousin Poitou Charente
- notices in the register
- 37
- awards
- 16
- awarded in total
- €3.1M
Who wins its contracts
Many suppliers- different companies won its awards
- 16
- of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
- 19%
- of its calls state an estimated value
- 79%
Based on 16 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners.
Competition
- tenders per lot on average (open and restricted procedures)
- 1.5
- of those lots received a single tender
- 53%
- of the awards went to companies based in another country
- 7%
As the official award notices state them, over the last 3 years. Tenders per lot count open and restricted procedures only: in a negotiated procedure or a direct award a single tender is the procedure itself. The country is the one the notice gives for the winner.
One dot per award, on the day it was signed, sized by its value. A ring is an award with no published value.
Who usually wins this buyer's contracts in this sector
| Company | Wins | Total awarded | Last win |
|---|---|---|---|
| XENOCS SAS | 1 | €875,174 | Aug 2025 |
| BRUKER FRANCE SAS | 1 | €644,014 | Jun 2026 |
| THERMO ELECTRON SAS | 1 | €385,454 | Mar 2026 |
| KEYSIGHT TECHNOLOGIES FRANCE | 1 | €252,926 | Jun 2026 |
| MICRO CONTROLE Spectra-Physics SAS | 1 | €182,136 | Jul 2026 |
Based on 10 awards with a linked company profile over the last 5 years.
4 open tenders right now
- Gas - Framework agreement for the supply of nitrogen and rental of containers for the PIVOINE platform of the Institute of Combustion, Aerothermics, Reactivity and Environment (ICARE) 4 days left
- Repair and maintenance services of building installations - Preventive and corrective maintenance of heating, ventilation, sanitary and plumbing installations at the CNRS Orléans Campus 4 days left
- Physical property control instruments - Acquisition of an indenter-scratch device for mechanical characterisation of thin films 7 days left
Market context
Larger than 42% of the open notices in Laboratory & precision equipment across Europe.
- open now in Laboratory & precision equipment
- 1,647
- median open notice
- €211,835
Who wins in this market
Many suppliersFrance · Laboratory & precision equipment
- different companies won awards here
- 521
- of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
- 5%
- winners of the last 12 months were new here
- 403 of 427
- buyers awarded contracts here
- 362
Based on 718 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners. New: no award from the same buyer or market in the two years before.
Competition
- tenders per lot on average (open and restricted procedures)
- 2.5
- of those lots received a single tender
- 26%
- of the awards went to companies based in another country
- 14%
- of the tenders came from another country
- 14%
As the official award notices state them, over the last 3 years. Tenders per lot count open and restricted procedures only: in a negotiated procedure or a direct award a single tender is the procedure itself. The country is the one the notice gives for the winner.
Similar tenders
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est. value
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days left
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Open elsewhere in Europe
Upcoming
€88,574
est. value
Matched by meaning across languages, from the notices' own words: the same kind of contract, open now in another country.
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