# Benchtop Sequencing System

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

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON](/buyers/university-of-southampton/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: [ILLUMINA UK, LIMITED](/contract-winners/illumina-uk/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £78,216
- Tender value: £78,216
- Award date: 17 June 2025
- Published: 18 June 2025
- Contract start: 18 June 2025
- Contract end: 15 July 2026
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: goods
- Notice ID: 4a7b3d80-6e33-4bff-b0ec-3bdfd4e83cb7-850182
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-8ce6ce93-089b-49c3-9c5f-94ec6aadb6c4

## Description

The Environmental Sequencing Facility requires a next-generation sequencing system that serves as a direct, enhanced replacement for its current benchtop short-read platform, which is being discontinued by the manufacturer\. This new instrument must maintain compatibility with established short-read, paired end sequencing-by-synthesis chemistries and data analysis pipelines, while delivering significantly increased throughput and faster turnaround times\. Critical features must include robust performance for applications such as amplicon and whole-genome sequencing, and the ability for the instrument to produce up to 15 Gigabases \(Gb\) of sequencing data when based around 2 X 300 base pair \(bp\) sequencing chemistry, and a capability to generate up to 50 million reads per sequencing run\. To ensure sequencing quality is maintained with this replacement, the platform must retain an average per-base quality score of over 80% higher than Q30 \(phred quality score\) across the entire sequencing run\. This procurement was facilitated via the LAB2010 NE Framework Lot 1 framework direct award call-off

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/4a7b3d80-6e33-4bff-b0ec-3bdfd4e83cb7-850182)