Buyer Name: Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
Buyer Address: THE HERBARIUM, KEW GREEN, UKI75, TW93AE, United Kingdom
Contact Email: procurement@kew.org
Buyer Name: Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
Buyer Address: THE HERBARIUM, KEW GREEN, UKI75, TW93AE, United Kingdom
Contact Email: procurement@kew.org
The Millennium Seed Bank laboratories (RBG Kew) are seeking to update their X-Ray Machine to continue supporting the assessment of quality seed collections during the cleaning and processing stage to assess the final number of "good" seeds prior to banking, which allows to keep the collections to be kept at top quality.
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Lot Description: The Millennium Seed Bank laboratories (RBG Kew) are seeking to update their X-Ray Machine to continue supporting the assessment of quality seed collections during the cleaning and processing stage to assess the final number of "good" seeds prior to banking, which allows to keep the collections to be kept at top quality. Market route via Single Tender Action is justified because early market engagement demonstrated that competition is absent for technical reasons, with no reasonable alternative or substitute available that can meet RBG Kew's combined scientific and IT compliance requirements.
Lot 1 Status: cancelled
Lot 1 Has Options: No
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