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Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service) verified 2 days ago Contract notice

The Provision and Maintenance of a Cell Sorter

Open United Kingdom Laboratory & precision equipment

Buyer MHRA

26 days left

Key facts

Closes
10:00 (UTC)
Estimated value
€566,657
converted from GBP
Procedure
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Description

The Agency is looking to purchase a Cell Sorter as a replacement for Aria Cell Sorter (s/n P64828200097). This will include the purchase and maintenance of bespoke consumables and auxiliary equipment, if applicable. This cell sorter will support a number of projects such as Cancer Genomics, CAR-T cells, nanobody production, immune cell expansion, stem cells isolations, microbiome strain isolations. It will be required to isolate specific cell populations (e.g. transfected cells or cells with a specific phenotype) or allow clonal expansion of cells or feed into single cell sequencing pipelines if pre-isolation of cells is required.

Timing

28 days from publication to deadline. Usual length in United Kingdom: 30 days. Usual length

  1. Published
  2. Today
  3. Deadline
  4. Awarded pending
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Notices of this kind (United Kingdom, open procedure, above the EU threshold) give a median of 30 days, half of them between 26 and 36 days, based on 2,017 notices of the last two years.

Bid or no-bid?

2 of 6 answered from the register

Six questions before you commit a team. Under each one, what the register holds on it. The answers are yours.

  1. In your favour:

    Do we meet every eligibility criterion?

    Open procedure: any interested supplier may submit a bid.

  2. Your call:

    Can we deliver this with the team we have?

    Estimated at €566,657.

  3. Your call:

    Do we have two comparable references?

    Comparable work is in Laboratory & precision equipment.

  4. In your favour:

    Is the deadline realistic for a proper offer?

    26 days left, 20 of them working days.

  5. Your call:

    Is there a margin at the likely winning price?

    In this country this kind of contract is usually awarded for between €33,224 and €168,257.

  6. Your call:

    Do we know this buyer?

    The buyer has 33 notices in the register and no pattern of winners yet.

Can I bid?

  • Open procedure: any interested supplier may submit a bid.
  • Documents in English.

Official source

Source: Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service)

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Last verified against Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service) 2 days ago

Documents on Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service) (English)

Market

Laboratory & precision equipment in United Kingdom

median award in this market
€74,060
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What this market pays

The buyer has too few awards of its own in this sector, so this is the range of the last 132 awards for Laboratory & precision equipment in United Kingdom.

This notice
€566,657
Median award
€74,060
Middle half of past awards
€33,224 to €168,257

The estimate is larger than three in four past awards.

Award values as published by the official sources. Use them as a guide, not a rule: scope, lots and duration differ between contracts.

Market context

Larger than 74% of the open notices in Laboratory & precision equipment across Europe.

open now in Laboratory & precision equipment
1,788
median open notice
€217,500

Who wins in this market

Many suppliers

United Kingdom · Laboratory & precision equipment

different companies won awards here
111
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
10%
buyers awarded contracts here
58

Based on 152 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.

The buyer in figures

MHRA

notices in the register
33
awards
23

Who wins its contracts

Moderately concentrated
different companies won its awards
16
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
35%

Based on 20 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.

One dot per award, on the day it was signed, sized by its value. A ring is an award with no published value.

MHRA

United Kingdom

This buyer has no award history in this sector yet. Usual winners, Laboratory & precision equipment - United Kingdom

Company Wins Total awarded Last win
Life technologies limited 5 €318,043 Oct 2026
Wolf laboratories limited 5 €247,586 Oct 2026
VWR International Ltd 5 €212,216 Sep 2026
Carl Zeiss Ltd 4 €449,003 Jul 2026
Fisher Scientific UK 4 €309,021 Sep 2026

Based on 152 awards with a linked company profile over the last 2 years.

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