Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care products

Tender description

The West of Scotland Genetics Service based at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital as part of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde invites companies to submit responses against the following specification for the supply of a system for the delivery of a DNA microarray service for copy number variant detection for our genetic services. This new system must enable the laboratory to continue with the existing DNA microarray service commitments — primarily for patients with learning disability — but must also allow the laboratory to carry future applications not related to learning disability including copy number detection in germ-line disease, somatic cancer, prenatal diagnosis, pre-implantation diagnosis (PGD) and pre-implantation screening (PGS). The current throughput of this laboratory for DNA microarray analysis is 1 500 specimens a year and this is the throughput that should be considered for tender.