Sector · CPV division 38

Laboratory & precision equipment: UK public contracts

2 UK public laboratory & precision equipment contracts awarded in the last 12 months, worth £3.88m. See who is buying, who is winning, and 50% awarded without competition.

Covers CPV division 38, “Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)”. The busiest buyers recently were British Transport Police Authority and UK Health Security Agency.

Contracts (last 12 months)
2
Published value
£3.88mwhere stated
Without competition
50%1 contracts
Won by SMEs
50%of 2 with size known
Contracts awarded per month
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Biggest buyers

By number of contracts, last 12 months.

Top suppliers

By number of contracts, last 12 months.

  1. PTW-UK Limited SME 1 · £19,435

By region

  1. South West 1 · £19,435
  2. North East 1 · £3.86m

Latest contracts

Date Contract Buyer Supplier Value
26 Aug 2026 2 Electometers, 4 ion chambers and 2 adaptors UK Health Security Agency PTW-UK Limited SME £19,435
21 Jul 2026 Body Worn Video No competition British Transport Police Authority Axon Public Safety UK Limited £3.86m
10 Mar 2021 Consumables for Portable POCT Blood Analysers No competition South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust Abbott Laboratories Ltd £90,000
4 Mar 2021 208000.00 No competition Cefas Dionex UK Ltd/Thermo Fisher SME £208k
3 Mar 2021 PPE Ref 6958 Direct Award for Replacement Parts for two Accelerator Mass Spectrometers No competition University of Glasgow National Electrostatics Corp. SME £189k
3 Mar 2021 picoEmerald S laser system No competition University Of Edinburgh Photonic Solutions Ltd SME £267k
25 Feb 2021 Tender for a Biological Atomic Force Microscopy (bioAFM) Swansea University Bruker AXS SAS £270k
23 Feb 2021 Supply of Diesel Smoke Meters Deca Scott Aerospace Ltd SME £3m
22 Feb 2021 Purchase & maintenance of Serology Clinical Chemistry Analyser Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency Roche Diagnostics Ltd £507k
18 Feb 2021 Supply, Delivery and Commissioning of Automated Crystallisation Platform No competition University of Strathclyde Technobis Crystallization Systems £115k
17 Feb 2021 Confocal (spinning disk) microscope with isolation table and environmental chamber No competition University of Manchester Olympus Keymed £240k
15 Feb 2021 Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) Testing Services No competition United Kingdom Anti-Doping Limited Prenetics EMEA
15 Feb 2021 Purchase of Tandem Mass Spectrometer (TRIPLE QTRAP 6500+) and Associated Maintenance No competition NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership-Procurement Services (hosted by Velindre University NHS Trust) AB Sciex UK Limited (operating as SCIEX) £325k
12 Feb 2021 Lightsheet microscope for the imaging of large, cleared biological samples Cardiff University Miltenyi Biotec Ltd. £249k
12 Feb 2021 Thermometry: THERMOMETER, IN EAR, DIGITAL DISPLAY NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership Welch Allyn UK Ltd £376k
12 Feb 2021 Thermometry: THERMOMETER, ELECTRONIC, MULTI PURPOSE, WITH PROBE, DIGITAL DISPLAY (ORAL, AXILLA, RECTAL) NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership Welch Allyn UK Ltd £20,034
12 Feb 2021 Thermometry: THERMOMETER, SINGLE PATIENT USE, DIGITAL NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership Praxis Medical Ltd SME £20,238
12 Feb 2021 Thermometry: THERMOMETER, NON CONTACT FOREHEAD NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership Arbarr Electronics Limited SME, Henleys Medical Supplies Limited SME +5 more £208k
11 Feb 2021 41145 - Mass Spectrometer - Mass Spectrometer Equipment and Maintenance University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust Shimadzu UK Limited
10 Feb 2021 2021 111 - Ultrasound Simulation Systems No competition University of Leeds Intelligent Ultrasound £306k
10 Feb 2021 Provision of Fungitell kits, pipettes and assay plates No competition Public Health England Associates of Cape Cod Int., Inc. £1.5m
10 Feb 2021 2021_48 - 2x Direct Electron Detecting Cameras: 1x Direct Electron Detecting Camera University of Leeds FEI UK Ltd £806k
10 Feb 2021 2021_48 - 2x Direct Electron Detecting Cameras: 1x Direct Electron Detecting Camera University of Leeds FEI UK Ltd £806k
10 Feb 2021 2021 111 - Ultrasound Simulation Systems No competition University of Leeds Intelligent Ultrasound £306k
9 Feb 2021 PPE Ref 6866 Direct award for Sealing Foil to be supplied from Feb-April 2021 No competition University of Glasgow STARLAB (UK) Ltd £220k
8 Feb 2021 Eden Campus - Stretch Dome Simulator University of St Andrews Osc SME £308k
5 Feb 2021 Ultra Fast Laser No competition University Of Edinburgh Photonic Solutions Ltd SME £173k
1 Feb 2021 Direct Metal or Conductive Ink Deposition System Heriot-Watt University Neotech AMT GmbH SME
28 Jan 2021 Direct Award of PURCH1896 the Provision Of QS3 AND QS7 PCR Machines From LAB5054 LU Life Science Equipment And Associated Services LOT 5 No competition University of Glasgow Fisher Scientific UK £220k
26 Jan 2021 High resolution gas chromatograph mass spectrometer No competition Dstl Thermo Fisher £500k
26 Jan 2021 Provision of Fungitell kits, pipettes and assay plates No competition Public Health England Associates of Cape Cod International, Inc. £1.5m
25 Jan 2021 UKRI-1161 Laser Micro-dissection Inverted Imaging System No competition UK Research & Innovation Olympus (Uk) Ltd £228k
25 Jan 2021 Liquid Chromatography High Resolution Mass Spectrometry Instrumentation University of Ulster Thermo Fisher Scientific £266k
25 Jan 2021 ICP Coupled Plasma – Mass Spectrometer No competition Mr N Rogers Agilent Technology £200k
22 Jan 2021 Purchase of High Content Screening System No competition Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service Perkin Elmer
22 Jan 2021 Next Generation Nano-imaging Equipment No competition Cardiff University Oxford Nanoimaging Limited SME £225k
21 Jan 2021 UKRI-1301 - ONI Nanoimager S Microscope No competition UK Research & Innovation Oxford Nanoimaging Limited SME £193k
20 Jan 2021 Pb-testing Facility No competition Prifysgol Bangor / Bangor University S.R.S Servizi DI Ricerche E Sviluppo S.R.L. £250k
19 Jan 2021 Provision of a kHz laser system for SCAPA University of Strathclyde Coherent Europe BV £275k
18 Jan 2021 Stem Cell Collection Equipment, Consumables and Maintenance No competition NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership-Procurement Services (hosted by Velindre University NHS Trust) Terumo BCT Ltd £290k
15 Jan 2021 Supply of a Field Flow Fractionation (FFF) system University of Leeds Postnova Analytics UK £183k
14 Jan 2021 Provision of a LiDAR solution for wind monitoring Met Office Vaisala Oyj
14 Jan 2021 Supply of a Short Read Sequencer No competition University of Leeds Illumina Cambridge Limited £316k
14 Jan 2021 Provision of a LiDAR solution for wind monitoring Met Office Vaisala Oyj
12 Jan 2021 Equipment to measure high speed press deformation and displacement vectors No competition University of Strathclyde GOM UK Ltd £67,000
4 Jan 2021 E/3695 - X-ray Powder Diffraction Equipment University of Leeds Malvern Panalytical £333k
22 Dec 2020 All Wales Fisheries Monitoring Equipment Framework: Acoustic cameras - fisheries applications - Long Range Natural Resources Wales Reeds Sonar Consultancy LTD SME £2.5m
22 Dec 2020 All Wales Fisheries Monitoring Equipment Framework: Underwater cameras - marine applications Natural Resources Wales Reeds Sonar Consultancy LTD SME £2.5m
22 Dec 2020 e-PCR Machines and Reagents No competition Department of Health and Social Care LGC Genomics Ltd £118m
21 Dec 2020 30388 Supply of a Liquid Chromatography Accurate Mass Instrument Defra Network eTendering Portal AB Sciex UK Limited (operating as SCIEX) £195k