NEW DELHI: The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has invited expressions of interest from companies for manufacturing National Institute of Virology-developed ELISA testing kits for detection of antibodies against covid-19.
Under the deal, ICMR would transfer the technology to manufacture the kits. The deadline for submission of the EoIs is 1 pm on Thursday, as per the tender, a copy of which was seen by Mint.
Only firms with manufacturing units in India are eligible and the company is required to have experience in manufacturing ELISA test kits for any other disease, as per the tender document.
It must provide at least 5% royalty to ICMR. ELISA, or enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, is a test which measures the antibodies IgG