Analysis services

Tender description

Please note this is not the start of a procurement process. A separate contract notice will be published to cover this requirement. UK Biobank is a major national health resource established with the aim of improving the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of a wide range of serious illnesses. The purpose of this PIN is to determine feasibility and what is available interested in collecting metabolomic data on the different types of biospecimens collected. We are interested in both targeted and/or untargeted approaches and NMR and/or mass spectrometry techniques. Scalability will be a critical issue and details should be provided on the reproducibility achieved according to the number of samples analysed, the multiplicity of analytical instruments used for data acquisition, and the fusion of metabolomic datasets. In addition, any information on the comparison of performance of the proposed methods to that of established clinical assays would be welcome. Please note this is not the start of a procurement process. A separate contract notice will be published to cover this requirement. If you are interested in working with us on this PIN, please contact Andrea Howard by email at: andrea.howard@ukbiobank.ac.uk by no later than 17:00 (GMT) on Friday, 29.7.2016. You will be sent a Table to complete, detailing set criteria of what you can offer, including providing a list of metabolites quantified or semi-quantified, methods used for their estimation, quality control procedure, analytical reproducibility, time line and costs. Data supplied on this Table will be reviewed internally by the UK Biobank Enhancement Working Group members. If you are not happy to share this information outside this group you will have the option to ‘opt out’ for some or all of the data. Opting out will not affect your chances of working with UK Biobank.