RE: Beckman Coulter Deal!!15 Aug 2020 11:44
The NHS lighthouse labs use Thermo fisher kit, it seems they are a notch above BC in the market place. However what most people have overlooked is that the US government are funding this expansion at these existing labs and itās not the companies themselves. Yup you read it right...
The Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday announced $6.5 million for two commercial laboratories, Aegis Sciences and Sonic Healthcare, to enable the U.S. to perform an additional 1 million tests per week by early October ā with the goal of adding up to 4 million additional tests per month.
So this proves BC are connected in the government. So given that the government wants to expand testing, again note the numbers here, additional 1m by October (when does our lab open? October ish? so itās almost guaranteed weāve missed the 1m expansion but the 4m which is post Oct??), err whoās in with government, just did the last expansion for tests to 1m? Whoās got a lab ready by end of October?
HHS provided scant information on the specific equipment that Beckman Coulter will be providing to the labs other than to say it will boost COVID-19 testing by up to 10,000 tests each day at 10 separate sites for a total increase of 100,000 per day nationwide. Beckman Coulter was not available for comment.
I wonder why BC were coy... maybe because they want to open their own lab? And by the time the lab opens the government want to do an additional 4m tests a day.
What I think is that 10k a day seems the norm, but there is huge scope to ramp it up. Thermo Fisher are rivals, they have a solution which can do more tests in this deal. If I was BC it would be time to put BC on the map and being customer zero theyād want to showcase something great to the government. Bodes well for the future.
And in the interest of keeping it balanced and to conclude, it could be 10k tests a day per BC lab on regular scale, and on hyper scale could be huge numbers. And every upscale BC do in the interim could also have GDR cross selling option. BC announce news around the same time as this contract, they could have being part of federal government 4m expansion contract in the bag.
Just my thoughts, hope itās not a ramp. Definitely not buying advice.