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Supplier terms
For laboratories that make, culture, fabricate or test living material. This page states what is sent, what is expected back, and how payment works. There is no listing fee and no placement fee.
What a request contains
A normalised specification
The component, the format and geometry, the quantity, the delivery condition, the functional acceptance criterion, and the quality documents required with the shipment. Restated into your terms and your units before it reaches you.
A named buyer with a stated requirement
Every request carries a buyer who has stated the requirement and the timeframe. Exploratory requests are marked as such in the request.
The same scope issued to every laboratory approached
Every laboratory approached receives the same scope, quantity and QC list.
Buyer identity on release only
By default you receive the technical content without the buyer’s name, institution or application. Where identity would improve the quote, we ask the buyer to release it.
A decision on every quote
You are told the outcome of every quote, including when the buyer does not proceed.
A single point of contact
One person holds the request end to end.
Practices excluded
- Speculative requests. Requests are not circulated without a buyer behind them.
- Reverse auctions. Your price is not shown to a competitor.
- Silent scope changes. A changed requirement is re-issued as a new request.
- Price harvesting. Quotes are not collected to build a public pricing dataset. Published prices on the catalogue come from your own public pages, with source and capture date.
- Unpaid pilots. No free first article is required to quote.
- Listing fees. No payment is taken to appear on the site or to be recommended.
Supplier expectations
| Expectation | What it means in practice |
|---|---|
| A real quote | A number you will honour, with a stated validity period, itemised so that non-recurring engineering, materials, labour, QC and freight are shown separately. |
| A lead time with its start event | Counted from a named start event, with the gating constraint stated: production cadence, cell expansion, incubation minimum, courier window, or permit. |
| A prompt decline | Declines within a few days. Declines are reported to the buyer as part of the result and do not affect future requests. |
| QC documentation named at quotation | Which certificates travel with the goods, by which method, against which acceptance criterion, and whether values are typical, guaranteed or lot-specific. Documents not on the quote do not ship. |
| Accurate capability claims | If you sell the casting device rather than the formed tissue, state that. The distinction is classified on every catalogue entry. |
| A named technical contact | Someone who can answer a specification question without routing it through a sales team. |
| Notice of schedule slip | On the day the slip is known. |
| Research use only | Research use only. Not for diagnostic or therapeutic use. Clinical, diagnostic and human-use work is not routed through this site. |
Payment
| Who issues the order | Wetware World, where the engagement carries our margin. The buyer directly, where the engagement is a flat brokerage fee. You are told which before you quote. |
|---|---|
| Payment terms | Your standard terms unless agreed otherwise in writing on the purchase order. |
| Deposits and non-recurring engineering | Where tooling, mould design or protocol development is required, the deposit and milestone structure is agreed in the quotation and passed through to the buyer as a visible line rather than absorbed. |
| How our margin is handled | Added by Wetware World, disclosed to the buyer as its own line, and not deducted from your price. |
| Fees not taken | No listing fee, placement fee, ranking fee, or commission contingent on which supplier the buyer selects. |
| Currency and freight | Quote in your own currency and state your freight basis. Normalisation onto a common basis is done by Wetware World. |
Where the engagement carries a margin, that margin is disclosed to the buyer as its own line beside your price. Where that disclosure is unacceptable, the flat-fee structure is the alternative.
Listing
Six steps. Currently 66 entries across 9 categories, of which 42 are verified against a live primary source.
- 01
Application or survey
Most entries in the survey came from reading suppliers’ own published material. Neither route carries a fee.
- 02
Primary material is read
Product pages, technical specifications, published validation, and material you send. Capability is recorded as a quotation from your own wording.
- 03
Classification
Finished good or kit. Public price or by quotation. Fixed format or custom geometry.
- 04
Confidence label assigned and published
Verified, partially verified, or not yet verified, against a written definition, shown on the entry with the capture date. The label describes the evidence held.
- 05
Matching requests are sent
A request reaches you when the specification matches your published capability.
- 06
Correction or removal on request
Entries are corrected against your own published material, or removed. Corrections are recorded.
Listing is not endorsement and is not sold. The full method, including the limits of verification, is published at sourcing methodology.
Supplier application
Everything except contact details and capability is optional.