cpv 38 · Laboratory, optical and precision equipment
laboratory and precision equipment
13,600 UK public sector contracts and tenders for laboratory and precision equipment, from 1,066 buyers since 9 Feb 2015. The typical contract is worth £69,810. 20 are still open.
the biggest awarded contracts in laboratory and precision equipment
Contracts that name a winning supplier, ranked by the value the buyer published, excluding those flagged as a maximum rather than a price. Figures are as published; gvtcx does not adjust them. A large contract is often a multi-year framework, so the value is what may be spent over its whole life — and where several suppliers share one framework, each is shown against the framework's full value rather than its own share.
who wins this work
Suppliers with the most recorded awards in this category. Median rather than total, because framework ceilings are published in the same field as real contract values.
| supplier | awards | median value |
|---|---|---|
| Agilent Technologies LDA UK Ltd | 207 | £56,504 |
| Carl Zeiss Ltd | 179 | £79,579 |
| Thermo Fisher Scientific | 165 | £61,754 |
| Bruker UK Limited | 161 | £84,500 |
| Leica Microsystems (UK) Ltd | 131 | £38,359 |
| Life Technologies Ltd | 99 | £42,966 |
| VWR International Ltd | 98 | £52,642 |
| Photonic Solutions Ltd | 94 | £55,000 |
| Waters Ltd | 81 | £71,695 |
| Wolf Laboratories Limited | 74 | £50,438 |
| Scientific Laboratory Supplies Limited | 71 | £20,689 |
| Fisher Scientific U.K., Limited | 63 | £43,441 |
| FEI UK Ltd | 61 | £282,539 |
| Fisher Scientific UK | 58 | £28,890 |
| QIAGEN Ltd | 55 | £48,378 |
who buys it
by region
- South East 1,018
- Yorkshire and the Humber 1,000
- Scotland 958
- South West 884
- West Midlands 765
- North East 710
- London 610
- North West 505
- East of England 497
- East Midlands 487
- Northern Ireland 136
- Wales 134
over time
| year | contracts | |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 269 | |
| 2016 | 1,248 | |
| 2017 | 934 | |
| 2018 | 854 | |
| 2019 | 1,080 | |
| 2020 | 1,108 | |
| 2021 | 1,636 | |
| 2022 | 1,822 | |
| 2023 | 1,932 | |
| 2024 | 1,401 | |
| 2025 | 758 | |
| 2026 | 558 |
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