# PHE\_Scientific - Provision of Digital Microscope

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

## Key facts

- Public buyer: Public Health England
- Contract winner: [Life Technologies Limited](/contract-winners/life-technologies/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £19,521
- Tender value: £19,521
- Award date: 20 May 2020
- Published: 31 March 2021
- Contract start: 20 May 2020
- Contract end: 19 May 2021
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: goods
- Notice ID: e064f9a4-9079-4074-9069-5f03fe911efe-425122
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-f96df324-7455-4df9-9fd2-c180a2499ff3

## Description

PHE discharges its duties as a Category 1 Responder to emergencies on behalf of the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care within the scope of the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 \(CCA 2004\)\. This urgent requirement is in response to the recent COVID -19 outbreak\. The negotiated procedure without a prior publication has been used due to extreme urgency on the grounds of regulation 32\(2\)\(c\) as this requirement provides at short notice to support emergency public health response relating to COVID-19\. To help increase throughput in our laboratories for Covid 19 activities PHE has awarded contract to Life Technologies Limited\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/e064f9a4-9079-4074-9069-5f03fe911efe-425122)