RBGKEW1500 - Seed viability X-ray cabinet
Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
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- 33111000 X-ray devices
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Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew awarded this contract to Southern Scientific Limited worth £150,000 on 9 Dec 2025.
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The Millennium Seed Bank laboratories (RBG Kew) are seeking to update their X-Ray Machine to continue supporting the assessment of quality seed collections during the cleaning and processing stage to assess the final number of "good" seeds prior to banking, which allows to keep the collections to be kept at top quality.
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The Millennium Seed Bank laboratories (RBG Kew) are seeking to update their X-Ray Machine to continue supporting the assessment of quality seed collections during the cleaning and processing stage to assess the final number of "good" seeds prior to banking, which allows to keep the collections to be kept at top quality.
Market route via Single Tender Action is justified because early market engagement demonstrated that competition is absent for technical reasons, with no reasonable alternative or substitute available that can meet RBG Kew's combined scientific and IT compliance requirements.
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