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Type of document: Contract Notice
Country: United Kingdom

1. Title: Synthesis of a hapten capable of creating a lateral flow assay for recreational drugs of abuse
2. Awarding Authority:
Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
Porton Down

SALISBURY
England
SP40JQ
Contact: Hannah Lander
Email: hlander@dstl.gov.uk
Phone: 01980956752
URL:
3. Contract Type: Not Provided
4. Description: Dstl is seeking Expressions of Interest (EOI) responses from suppliers that currently have hapten generation capabilities, and whether they currently have or would be willing to obtain a Home office Drugs Licence to support this work. Dstl can provide information regarding the likely hapten(s) to synthesise in any future competitive tender. Within the EOI response, it would be beneficial for the potential supplier to provide indicative lead times and indicative costs to 1) synthesise a single hapten and to 2) synthesis two haptens that are entirely different to one another but there may be synergies and resultant cost savings by developing two at the same time. Please email a PDF document maximum 3 pages to hlander@dstl.gov.uk explaining current capability and detailing indicative costs/ timelines.
Additional information: We require two haptens that can detect opiates and cannabinoids, in that priority order. The opiates will be structurally similar to 2-benzyl benzimidazole based opiates and the cannabinoids will be structural similar to JWH-01. Both haptens will need to be able to detect a powder (or a pill) and potentially material on impregnated paper. The haptens will be deliberately designed to be structurally unspecific to any single molecule, but specific to a range of compounds with similar structures. Sampling processing time would be ideally less than 5 minutes long, but the shorter the better. Finally, the reading mechanism can be simply a control line and a test line (or absence thereof).
5. CPV Codes:
71900000 – Laboratory services
85145000 – Services provided by medical laboratories
73100000 – Research and experimental development services
6. NUTS Codes: UKK15
7. Main Site or Location of Works, Main Place of Delivery or Main Place of Performance: North East,North West,Yorkshire and The Humber,East Midlands,West Midlands,East of England,London,South East,South West,Scotland,Wales,Northern Ireland
8. Reference Attributed by the Awarding Authority:
RQ0000045893
9. Estimated Value of Requirement: Not Provided
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