LIMS PROJECT PARTNER

WHO WE ARE AND WHY WE DO WHAT WE DO!

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Who we are and what we do

LIMS Project Partner is founded by Louis Uunk, managing director and senior consultant of LUFC LabConsultants (LUFC). LUFC started 15 years ago as a vendor-neutral LIMS and laboratory specialist.
LUFC LabConsultants successfully completed more than 60 "LIMS" projects and grew towards vendor-neutral "LIMS" selection support & coaching market-leader in the Benelux. 

LIMS Project Partner is the vendor-neutral consultancy/coaching branch of LUFC LabConsultants. We provide "LIMS" knowledge and experience and hands-on support to both laboratories and vendors.  

LIMS Project Partner's goal is to increase project success rate through its proven LIMS selection & implementation project approach. Our experience from more than 60 LIMS projects is used to help both laboratories and vendors to reach the best outcome within scope-time-budget. 

LIMS Project Partner wants to stimulate customers to become more self-reliant and achieve a knowledge level that enables them to become an equivalent project partner. LIMS Project Partner helps end-customers to achieve this through dedicated coaching, training and hands-on consultancy.

The last 15 years we saw many different vendors and vendor software solutions. On a regular basis we saw that very capable software solutions were unsuccessful due to either the way the vendor-sales approached the solution selection stage or due to the software implementation approach. LIMS Project Partner sees a role for a neutral partner to help vendors (and customers) to coach them towards a better project outcome. 

Knowledge & Experience

How we are able to do what we do

Founder LIMS Project Partner 

Louis studied Chemical Technology at the Technical University Twente in the Netherlands. After his studies he landed in Eindhoven with Philips Research and studied various analytical laboratory techniques for many years. After working, in various positions, for a few laboratory instrument vendors. Louis switched to laboratory informatics in 2000 and became an expert in software solutions like LIMS, ELN, SDMS and CDS. He performed in several roles like support, (pre-)sales and project management.

In 2009 Louis founded LUFC LabConsultants, a vendor-neutral network company with highly experienced laboratory & laboratory informatics experts. Louis mainly focussed on laboratory informatics (LIMS, ELN, SDMS) selection projects and coached/supported many customers towards the software/vendor solution best fitting their requirements. 

Why LIMS Project Partner?

Based on more than 60 "LIMS" projects, Louis gained valuable insights on the strengths and limitations of many LIMS software solutions, software vendors and laboratory customers. It became more and more clear which factors are most important to be able to successfully select and implement a laboratory information management solution. Both laboratory customers and vendors are needed to perform at their best to successfully complete these potentially complex projects. 

In more than 60 projects, we saw many different vendors and vendor software solutions. On a regular basis we saw that very capable software solutions were unsuccessful due to either the way the vendor-sales approached the solution selection stage or due to the software implementation approach. LIMS Project Partner sees a role for a neutral partner to help vendors (and customers) to coach them towards a better project outcome. 

In all the projects we did, we worked with many different laboratories and project teams out of almost all market sectors, from heavily regulated to research-driven. We however noticed many similarities in stengths and limitations when it comes to running a complex project like a "LIMS" selection and implementation. We encounter the same pitfalls over and over, which can be overcome by involving an experienced and knowledgeable coach/consultant.

The issues at both laboratory and vendor teams unfortunately still cause many "LIMS" projects to go over time & budget on a regular basis resulting in unsatisfactory projects results and many frustrations at all parties concerned. 

A condition for significantly enhancing project quality, -efficiency, -cost and -completion time lies in improving entire project execution at both vendors and laboratories. Both parties need to improve and cooperate and another level. LIMS Project Partner sees a role for a neutral partner to help vendors (and customers) to coach them towards a better project outcome.
LIMS Project Partner believes that is is possible to cure this when all parties work together and only have the optimal end-result in mind. We believe an experienced & neutral intermediate LIMS Partner is essential in achieving project success. 

WLN hired Louis Uunk to guide us during the process of selecting a new LIMS. The prime topic was for WLN to identify which software/vendor would best suit WLN's requirements for a new system and whether that solution would be able to replace the current LIMS system. Louis's guidance during the entire process has been excellent. Especially the LabInfoScan and URS parts have proven to be very valuable. His extended market knowledge also proved to be very valuable during the evaluations of the vendor responses and the demonstrations. With Louis's help WLN succeeded in making an informed decision for its new LIMS solution.

Jan van der Kooi

Laboratory Manager
WLN

Louis Uunk has provided tremendous value during the selection of our LIMS/ELN. His experience and knowledge in the laboratory information management area have been very valuable during our process towards identifying the requirements that our knowledge centre and its laboratories set towards a LIMS/ELN. Louis made sure that we evaluated our processes and procedure very closely and documented the result in a URS. Finally Louis guided and supported us during the vendor selection process, pointing out differences and what that would mean to us, however never showing any personal preference. I recommend contacting Louis whenever you need to select and implement a new LIMS/ELN, especially when you have limited experience yourself.

Ronald Italiaander

Laboratory Manager
KWR Water Research Institute

In 2017 we asked Louis Uunk to guide and support us during the selection of a laboratory information management software solution. The project consisted of 3 parts: a LabInfoScan (map current and future processes/workflow; URS and the final vendor/software selection. We value Louis's contribution as very useful. There are many different software solutions, Louis has both laboratory workflow and LIMS market knowledge and experience, that enable him to suggest the right vendor candidates to include in the vendor selection. Louis meets upfront planning and appointments. Having expert guidance during a LIMS selection was very valuable.

Hilde Rosing

Laboratory Team Leader
Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI)

In 2022 Louis Uunk has supported BaseClear during a LIMS selection. Louis used a thorough project approach (LabInfoScan) to identify BaseClear's process improvement potential. With Louis's knowledge and experience, "To- be" processes were drafted which in turn were translated into a detailed URS. We were able to select a new LIMS that meets our requirements, thanks to Louis's well defined and thorough selection approach. Louis's support, advice and project methology have been very valuable during all steps of our LIMS selection. Communication and cooperation with Louis were very pleasant and constructive. I highly recommend Louis's support and advice during a LIMS selection to organizations without adequate knowledge and experience in this matter.

Jan-Peter Heutink

Interim Manager Microbiology & Sanger Sequencing BaseClear