Pre-commercial procurement to buy R&D services to develop fully integrated and standardized NGS workflows for routine diagnosis of common and rare cancers from adults and children

This contract notice invites interested operators to submit tenders to a procurement. The procurement aims to trigger new solutions to be developed and tested to address the following challenge: Development of two fully integrated and standardized NGS workflows, from sample-pre-analytics to medical decision making, for routine diagnostics of common and rare cancers from adults and children. As the common challenge consists of a number of sub-challenges, the procurement will be divided into the following Lots, each corresponding to one sub-challenge: — Lot 1: Pre-sequencing (Specimen collection, nucleic acid isolation, library preparation), — Lot 2: Sequencing, — Lot 3: Bioinformatics analysis, — Lot 4: Integrated reporting. This PCP procurement is a joint procurement by different procurers across Europe that are all facing the same common challenge and are thus looking for similar solutions (so-called ‘buyers group’).