Newcastle University · Awarded contract
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Supply and Installation of Three Liquid Handling Robots for Newcastle University

Awarded 30 Sep 2015

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Awarded30 Sep 2015
Value£276,761.00
RegionNorth East
CategoryResearch & Development
Ended 9y 1mo ago2y term
Awarded 30 Sept 2015Expired 30 Sept 2017

Newcastle University awarded a contract to Beckman Coulter United Kingdom Ltd for the supply and installation of three liquid handling robots under the APUC Framework Agreement BA-LAB045.

The contract, valued at AUD 276,761, covers three lots: Lot 1 for a robot to transfer micro-organisms from liquid cultures to solid agar plates and glycerol stocks, with backup for mammalian cell screening; Lot 2 for a robot to support next-generation sequencing library preparation and sample processing in a single-cell low template copy number environment; and Lot 3 for a robot for post-PCR sample clean-up, dilution, cherry picking, and aliquoting.

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