Southern Universities Purchasing Consortium (SUPC) · Awarded contract
Awarded

Supply of Antibodies and Sera for Research to UK Higher Education Consortia

Awarded 30 Jun 2017

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Awarded30 Jun 2017
Value£80,000,000.00
SupplierAntibody Supply Service Limited,Becton, Dickinson U.K. Limited,Agilent Technologies LDA UK Limited,Agilent Technologies LDA UK Limited,BioLegend UK Limited,BioServ UK Limited,Bio-Techne Ltd,Eurogentec Limited,Fisher Scientific UK Limited,Fisher Scientific UK Limited,Insight Biotechnology Limited,Life Science Group Limited,Life Science Group Limited,Life Technologies Limited,Life Technologies Limited,Miltenyi Biotec Limited,New England Biolabs (UK) Ltd,Oxford Biosystems Ltd,PeproTech EC Ltd,Proteintech Europe Limited,Randox Laboratories Limited,Randox Laboratories Limited,Sigma-Aldrich Company Ltd,Sigma-Aldrich Company Ltd,St John's Laboratory Ltd,Stratech Scientific Limited,Stratech Scientific Limited,Takara Bio Europe SAS,Tokyo Chemical Industry UK Ltd,Universal Biologicals Ltd,Universal Biologicals Ltd,Vector Laboratories Limited,Vector Laboratories Limited,VWR International Ltd,VWR International Ltd,Generon Limited,2B Scientific Limited,2B Scientific Limited
AgencySouthern Universities Purchasing Consortium (SUPC)
RegionUnited Kingdom
CategoryResearch & Development
Ended 5y 4mo ago4y term
Awarded 30 June 2017Expired 29 June 2021

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Southern Universities Purchasing Consortium (SUPC) awarded a contract to Antibody Supply Service Limited, Becton, Dickinson U.K.

Limited, Agilent Technologies LDA UK Limited, BioLegend UK Limited, BioServ UK Limited, Bio-Techne Ltd, and Eurogentec for the supply of a range of antibodies and sera, including other related matrices, for research purposes only.

The agreement is open only to current members of the six participating higher education consortia: APUC, HEPCW, LUPC, NEUPC, NWUPC, and SUPC.

The contract value is £80,000,000.

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