# PHE\_ Scientific Leeds Surveillance testing for C\.Difficile infection

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

## Key facts

- Public buyer: Public Health England
- Contract winner: [The University of Leeds](/contract-winners/university-of-leeds/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £82,850
- Tender value: £82,850
- Award date: 11 January 2021
- Published: 10 March 2021
- Contract start: 11 January 2021
- Contract end: 10 January 2022
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 1a0b01bf-49b6-4bb6-81cf-b47684ecbe9d-419373
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-6d4ab96b-4b91-433e-bfa2-7f454e73ecb1

## Description

PHE has a warded a contract vis STA to The University of Leeds for Surveillance testing for C\.Difficile infection\. The contract has been awarded to future develop the methods available to detect new and emerging strains that require new control measures, a comparison of whole genome sequence data must be made with our database of previously sequenced data that has PCR-ribotype results, to be able to predict C\. difficile Ribotype from Whole Genome Sequence\. The STA is for a year,

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/1a0b01bf-49b6-4bb6-81cf-b47684ecbe9d-419373)