# Direct Award for the provision of purchase of ONT GridION platforms to support COG-UK and Covid

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

## Key facts

- Public buyer: Public Health England
- Contract winner: [Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd\.](/contract-winners/oxford-nanopore-technologies/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £279,825
- Tender value: £279,825
- Award date: 25 January 2021
- Published: 5 February 2021
- Contract start: 28 January 2021
- Contract end: 30 April 2021
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: goods
- Notice ID: 82fbda90-26bb-4512-9d4d-0a952c3bab3f-410931
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-731df34e-7060-41ac-b1f6-397685c436e2

## Description

PHE has awarded a contract to Oxford Nanopore Technology Ltd under Lot2 of the PHE Microbiology framework for the provision of purchase of Gridion Sequencing platform in order to support the COG UK consortium and COVID incident\. The instrument can process both low and high sample number batches using long read sequencing thus providing flexibility in order to respond to the SarsCov2 pandemic\. It is Nationwide contract\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/82fbda90-26bb-4512-9d4d-0a952c3bab3f-410931)