Provision of Sequencing Equipment and Consumables

Guys and St Thomas's NHS Foundation Trust (GSTT) has been awarded Funding from NHS England (NHSE) and the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology (the "Funders") for the financial years 2023/24 and 2024/25 as the lead provider for the delivery of the Respiratory Metagenomic Clinical Service Development Programme (the 'Project'), from Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC.

The Project is a pilot based on patented nanopore based sequencing technology and therefore this contract notice is issued under Regulation 32 (a) of the PCR 2015.

The Project aims to deliver a national respiratory metagenomics (RMg) pilot clinical service with an integrated biosecurity surveillance purpose, as a world-first programme to combine effective infectious disease management with rapid emerging pathogen detection and notification.