In deliveryUnited KingdomGoodsFramework agreement£40,000,000
Laboratory Consumables and Chemicals
- Published
- Published 16 January 2025
- Deadline
- Closed 19 December 2025
Overview
The Authority was seeking Contractor(s) for the supply of those laboratory consumables and chemicals required for the efficient functioning of laboratories in the Scottish HE/FE sector, NHS Scotland and other Scottish public sector organisations. For the purposes of this exercise, consumables and chemicals include but are not limited to Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), glassware, filtration plastics, molecular biology plastics, tissue culture plastics, pipette tips and pipettors, gloves, solvents, fine chemicals, alcohol and acids, bio-chemicals, inorganic chemicals and salts and green chemicals. The supply of all products should include a provision for take-back schemes where possible.
The Authority was seeking Contractor(s) for the provision of supply of laboratory consumables and chemicals required for the efficient functioning of laboratories across the further and higher education sector, NHS Scotland and other public bodies in Scotland. This includes Full and Associate Members, and future members of APUC Ltd.(Advanced Procurement for Universities & Colleges): https://www.apuc-scot.ac.uk/?#!/members. Other participating bodies include:
- NHS National Procurement and its members
- East Dunbartonshire Council
- Fife Council,
- East Ayrshire Council,
- City of Edinburgh Council
- Science and Advice for Scottish Agriculture – SASA
- National Galleries of Scotland
- National Records of Scotland
- Marine Directorate.
Key details
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Status
- In delivery
- Category
- Goods
- Estimated value
- £40,000,000
- Procedure
- Open
- Contract type
- Framework agreement
- Published
- 16 January 2025
- Deadline
- Closed
GlovesDisposable glovesBasic inorganic and organic chemicalsBasic inorganic chemicalsChemical elements, inorganic acids and compoundsMiscellaneous inorganic chemicalsBasic organic chemicalsAlcohol+11 more
Award outcome
- Awarded value
- £40,000,000
- Award date
- 27 March 2026
- Contract period
- — → 16 March 2028
- Apollo Scientific Ltd.
- Be Scientific Ltd
- Camlab Limited
- Dixon Glass Ltd (T/A Dixon Science)
- Findel Education Ltd
- Fisher Scientific UK
- Greiner Bio-One td
- LS Scientific Limited
- Merck Life Science UK Limited
- Scientific Laboratory Supplies Limited
- StarLab
- VWR International Ltd
- fluorochem
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Notice history
Every published notice in this contracting process, newest first.
Contract
13 May 2026
View notice ↗Tender Update
17 November 2025
View notice ↗Contract Notice
3 November 2025
View notice ↗Prior Information Notice
16 January 2025
View notice ↗
Contracting authority
APUC Limited
BuyerStirling, United Kingdom
Authority website ↗
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