Contract

RBGKEW1440 Illumina Sequencing of fungal amplicons

  • Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew

UK7: Contract details notice - Procurement Act 2023 - view information about notice types

Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-076987

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-05e8a5

Published 25 November 2025, 3:57pm



Scope

Reference

RBGKEW1440

Description

We require amplicon sequencing of a 550 bp amplicon for up to approximately 2,000 samples using Illumina. We would like paired-end reads and need a minimum of 10,000x coverage per sample. The sequencing may be done on a single lane of (for instance) NextSeq or multiple lanes of MiSeq, cost depending. We will do the amplification of the target region using partial Illumina adapters and would like the supplier to do the barcoding, QC, equimolar pooling, library prep, size selection and sequencing. We need the data returned in bam or raw fastq format, demultiplexing and further bioinformatic support is not necessary.


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Supplier

Contract value

  • £50,000 excluding VAT
  • £60,000 including VAT

Below the relevant threshold

Date signed

2 October 2025

Contract dates

  • 5 October 2025 to 4 October 2026
  • 1 year

Main procurement category

Services

CPV classifications

  • 73111000 - Research laboratory services

Contract locations

  • UKC - North East (England)
  • UKD - North West (England)
  • UKE - Yorkshire and the Humber
  • UKF - East Midlands (England)
  • UKG - West Midlands (England)
  • UKH - East of England
  • UKI - London
  • UKJ - South East (England)
  • UKK - South West (England)

Procedure

Procedure type

Below threshold - limited competition


Supplier

Dalhousie University

5850 College St.,Nova Scotia

Halifax

B3H 4R2

Canada

Email: imr@dal.ca

Small or medium-sized enterprise (SME): No

Voluntary, community or social enterprise (VCSE): No

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Contracting authority

Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew

  • Charity Commission (England and Wales): 803428
  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PGTT-3583-QXLN

THE HERBARIUM

KEW GREEN

TW9 3AE

United Kingdom

Region: UKI75 - Hounslow and Richmond upon Thames

Organisation type: Public authority - central government