The £28m centre is designed to be the first step towards the creation of a new BioCampus that is hoped eventually to place Liverpool alongside Boston and Singapore as a leading international centres for the life sciences.
The five-storey BioInnovation Centre will sit alongside the planned new £451m Royal Liverpool Hospital – on the old Royal site and will create 70,000 sq ft commercial scale laboratory space when completed in 2014.
The trust has completed architectural design work to RIBA stage D, culminating in the approval of full planning permission for the project in March.
It is now looking for contractor feedback on whether to procure the building using Procure 21+, a restricted negotiated procedure or a local assets backed vehicle company.
Building work is scheduled to start in October.