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Colony Management 2025/26

UNIVERSITY OF EXETER

Buyer Contact Info

Buyer Name: UNIVERSITY OF EXETER

Buyer Address: Northcote House, Queens Drive, Exeter, UKK43, EX4 4QJ, United Kingdom

Contact Name: Melanie Cox

Contact Email: m.cox2@exeter.ac.uk

Status
complete
Procedure
direct
Value
96000.0 GBP
Published
03 Mar 2026, 13:23
Deadline
n/a
Contract Start
23 Sep 2025, 23:00
Contract End
23 Sep 2026, 22:59
Category
n/a
CPV
73111000 - Research laboratory services
Region
n/a
Awarded To
CHARLES RIVER U.K. LIMITED
Official Source
Open Find a Tender

Description

Charles River are housing, maintaining and cultivating a specialist line of GM mice used by Gordon Brown. These cannot be sourced elsewhere and the service is only available via Charles River due to their specialist operations. Project includes covered housing, IDs, sentinels for health screening and diet pots as well as the ongoing cryostorage.

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Opportunity Context

Lots

Lot 1 Status: complete

Contracts

Contract Title: Colony Management 2025/26

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