# Foetal Calf Serum \(FCS\) for the UK Stem Cell Bank

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency](/buyers/medicines-and-healthcare-products-regulatory-agency/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: PAN Biotech UK Ltd
- Award value: £17,500
- Tender value: £75,000
- Award date: 21 December 2016
- Published: 21 December 2016
- Contract start: 1 January 2017
- Contract end: 31 December 2021
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: goods
- Notice ID: b4aa4236-e1e8-4b13-93eb-0035464d864b-122292
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-0e6d9267-adca-11e6-9901-0019b9f3037b

## Description

UK Stem Cell Bank is looking for 35 litters of EDQM certified Foetal Calf Serum \(FCS\) for embryonic stem cell culture\. The FCS is required to come from a certified Australian or New Zealand held \(by preference\) or USA herd with no Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy \(BSE\) occurrence\. The product will be used for both research and clinical graded cell lines\. Furthermore, the FCS will be used in a cleanroom facility and thus the products is required to be sterile \(by irradiation preferentially\)\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/b4aa4236-e1e8-4b13-93eb-0035464d864b-122292)