The Supply, Delivery, Installation and Maintenance of Laboratory Equipment

Concepts

• precision equipment
• cheshire
• medicines discovery catapult ltd
• laboratory and optical equipment
• installation of the below equipment
• iso accreditation laboratory
• installation
• above equipment
• maintenance of laboratory equipment
• innovate uk

Location

Cheshire East:

Description

Medicines Discovery Catapult Ltd (MDC) is a national facility for collaborative R&D exploring and developing new approaches to the discovery and proof of well targeted medicines, diagnostics and biomarkers. Funded by Innovate UK, an agency of the UK government, MDC are an independent not-for-profit company bringing together a fragmented UK sector of industry, academia, charities, technologists, services, finance companies, SMEs and start-ups who together can turn good science into new, high value products. By sharing problems, rare expertise and assets we support the growth of this new community through a time of radical business and national change.

Total Quantity or Scope

MDC are expanding their PCR capability and thus require the supply and installation of the below equipment for COVID-PCR testing via the Accredited assay: 5 x Thermo Kingfisher flex 3 x Quant Studio 7’s MDC Ltd is a ISO accreditation laboratory within the terms of the ISO 15189 Accreditation we must use the above equipment.

Award Detail

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 38000000 - Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)

Legal Justification

MDC is an ISO 15189 Accreditation Laboratory and our commercial contracts dictate that we must hold / retain this status. The ISO 15189 Accreditation has been reviewed / awarded on the current equipment within the MDC Laboratory including the Thermo Fisher Kingfishers, as such we are unable to install 'other' equipment into the laboratory without this affecting the ISO 15189 Accreditation. The installation of 'other' equipment would invalidate the ISO 15189 Accreditation and the MDC would be have to be reassessed for the ISO 15189 Accreditation and the introduction of 'other' equipment. The need to stay with the current equipment supplier is founded on the use of a single assay and protocol under our UKAS accreditation; this ensures that 1) Workflow is consistent to one method 2) Mistakes cannot occur due to confusion of different methods, training a workforce of more than 700FTE on new systems, sops and complex workflows runs risks that errors will be introduced 3) That the quality standards required by UKAS are continued to be met 4) We maintain consistency with reagent provider CE-certification on this equipment

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