RFP QuestBeta
Awarded · ResultStage · contract

Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew

Wood metabarcoding

Laboratory EquipmentCPV 38431000 38432000 38434000 71620000 72316000
Value£12k
Awarded31 Oct 2023
Published9 Jan 2024
RegionNationwide
Outcome — awarded

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£12ktotal contract value
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this tender£0£588k

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The brief

There is a requirement for the metabarcoding analysis of 62 tissues (namely bark, heartwood, and sapwood) from already-provided World Forest ID wood samples, using both fungal ITS and bacterial 16S primers and amplicon sequencing in the same runs.

The sample prep, extraction, and analyses, and associated bioinformatics pipeline and outputs shall follow the same novel Fera protocols and SOPs as agreed previously with the RBG Kew and World Forest ID teams.

Full data sets, bioinformatics results, and all associated methods and SOPs, along with any remaining unspent subsamples will be returned to the World Forest ID team

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

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The sample prep, extraction, and analyses,

The sample prep, extraction, and analyses, and associated bioinformatics pipeline and outputs shall follow the same novel Fera protocols and SOPs as agreed previously with the RBG Kew and World Forest ID teams.

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