Supply and Installation of Crystal Monitoring and Plate Optimisation Equipment for Birkbeck College's Protein Crystallography Centre
BIRKBECK COLLEGE · Awarded contract
AwardedSupply and Installation of Crystal Monitoring and Plate Optimisation Equipment for Birkbeck College's Protein Crystallography Centre
Awarded 30 Oct 2020
Ended 5y ago12mo term
Awarded 30 Oct 2020Expired 28 Oct 2021
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Birkbeck College awarded a contract to Swissci Limited and Formulatrix, Inc.
for the supply and installation of crystal monitoring and plate optimisation equipment for the Protein Crystallography and Biophysics centre within the Institute for Structural and Molecular Biology (ISMB) at the Department of Biological Sciences.
The equipment was expected to be delivered and installed by the end of 2020.
The contract value was approximately £297,505, divided across two lots.
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