# Automated Microwave Peptide Synthesiser

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

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [UNIVERSITY OF YORK](/buyers/university-of-york/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: CEM MICROWAVE TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
- Award value: £39,000
- Tender value: £39,000
- Award date: 4 July 2018
- Published: 10 August 2018
- Contract start: 5 July 2018
- Contract end: 31 July 2018
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: goods
- Notice ID: 6cb116c3-8d72-4ea6-8ffe-23c72577f008-234221
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-a1bc5b2a-975e-4896-959d-a4777f337e3a

## Description

Automated microwave peptide synthesiser to reduce the time taken to make a standard 10 amino acid sequence \(from ~40 hours to 160 minutes\); as well as making the process fully automated\. The instrument must be capable of being manually loaded with certain amino acids, allowing the loss of rare or in-house synthesised amino acids to be minimised\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/6cb116c3-8d72-4ea6-8ffe-23c72577f008-234221)