Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2020-03-11
Buyer: Danmarks Tekniske Universitet — DTU
Country: DK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated without a prior call for competition
CPV classification: 72210000: Software programming services
Estimated value: 317000 USD
Award criteria: Lowest price

Technical requirements: Software-as-a-Service, Consisting of Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN), Bioregistration and Sample Tracking, Workflow and Results Management and Molecular Biology
Software-as-a-Service, consisting of Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN), bioregistration and sample tracking, workflow and results management, and molecular biology.
Benchling was chosen because it was and still is the only integrated R&D software platform that meets the needs for the development of cell factories. It includes a molecular biology suite that is integrated with and Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) as well as a LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) including modules like bioregistry, workflow and results management.
All modules are seamlessly integrated which reduces both errors made in transferring information from one system to another and the time effort that it takes to keep multiple systems synchronized.
Benchling is completely cloud based and therefore accessible by all international research sites that are associated with the center. Benchling is also fully end-user configurable and integratable, meaning you do not have to maintain on premise servers and is not dependent on the vendor to make configuration changes. Instead, Benchling’s point-and-click end-user configuration enables flexibility as workflows change and develop. In addition, Biosustain’s internal development group can easily integrate any instrument using Benchling’s completely exposed REST APIs without the need for vendor involvement.
Benchling includes an ELN that makes it very easy for scientists to capture unstructured data that can be searched electronically and shared with other users. In addition, it allows users to configure data structures, enabling the capturing of structured data that can be queried, analyzed and compared downstream. This is all possible without having access to LIMS functionality.
The foundation of Benchling LIMS is a biologically intelligent registration system. This means you can directly register and view nucleotide and amino acid sequences from your LIMS, as well as build advanced constraints that are specific to sequences as data type (for example, only allow proteins to link DNA sequences when the protein is a valid translation of the DNA sequence). Beyond that, you can design and analyze sequences directly in your LIMS. Benchling offers native tools for ‘in silico’ cloning, primer design, sequence analysis, alignments and generation of libraries via combinatorial assembly. The seamless integration of the molecular biology suite is especially important for cell factory development and a very unique feature. Moreover, DTU have developed many add-ons to it with very dedicated software applications.
Benchling has also an integrated data warehouse, which means that benchling exports the structured data immediately to a data warehouse in a simplified and easy to use format, enabling scientists to query and analyze data easily without impact on the operational database.
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Winner: Benchling Inc
Award value: 317000