buyer and supplier
National Physical Laboratory
National Physical Laboratory has won 19 UK public sector awards from 9 buyers since 2012. The typical award is worth £424,003. It has published 349 tenders and contracts since 2017, 172 naming a winner.
as a buyer
349 procurement records (349 unique titles), of which 172 have award details , between 21 Jul 2017 and 16 Jun 2025.
as a supplier
19 recorded awards from 9 buyers , between 1 Feb 2012 and 20 Nov 2024.
“Exclusive” means this organisation was the only one awarded under that procurement; the rest were shared with other suppliers, typically on a framework.
sells to
top suppliers
| supplier | awards | median |
|---|---|---|
| Keysight Technologies UK Limited | 12 | £116,000 |
| Menlo Systems GmbH | 5 | £166,360 |
| Rohde & Schwarz UK Ltd | 5 | £43,238 |
| Mirion Technologies (Canberra UK) Ltd | 4 | £88,057 |
| Photonic Solutions Ltd | 4 | £123,948 |
| Anritsu EMEA Limited | 4 | £122,834 |
| SouthernsBroadstock Limited | 3 | £44,193 |
| SpectraDynamics, Inc | 3 | £92,780 |
| MetPrep Ltd | 3 | £49,679 |
| Fluke UK Ltd | 2 | £53,095 |
| Desktop Engineering Limited | 2 | £720,000 |
| Elliot Scientific Limited | 2 | £46,081 |
what it buys
- laboratory and precision equipment 275
- business and professional services 18
- IT services 9
- education and training 6
- research and development 5
- electrical equipment 4
- construction work 4
- vehicles and transport equipment 3
- software and information systems 3
- communications equipment 3
common questions about National Physical Laboratory
How many contracts has National Physical Laboratory published?
- National Physical Laboratory has published 349 procurement notices since 2017, of which 172 name a winning supplier.
Does National Physical Laboratory have any open tenders right now?
- National Physical Laboratory has no tenders open for bids right now.
Who are National Physical Laboratory's biggest suppliers?
- By number of contracts awarded, National Physical Laboratory's most frequent suppliers are Keysight Technologies UK Limited, Menlo Systems GmbH and Rohde & Schwarz UK Ltd.
How many public sector contracts has National Physical Laboratory won?
- National Physical Laboratory has won 19 UK public sector contracts from 9 public bodies since 2012.
Which public bodies buy from National Physical Laboratory?
- National Physical Laboratory has won the most contracts from Defra Network eTendering Portal, Defra and Home Office.
How large are National Physical Laboratory's contracts?
- The median published value of a contract won by National Physical Laboratory is £424,003. Framework ceilings are excluded, because they state a spending limit shared across many suppliers rather than a value one supplier received.
Which National Physical Laboratory contracts are expiring soon?
- 6 contracts involving National Physical Laboratory have end dates in the next 12 months, the earliest on 1 Dec 2026.
contracts expiring in the next 12 months
Contract end dates as published on the original notice. An end date is not a commitment to re-tender — a contract may be extended, varied or allowed to lapse — but it is the earliest public signal that work may come back to market.
| contract | role | counterparty | value | ends |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Awarded - ITT - Lot 2: Provision of Policy Monitoring Services | buys | DeHavilland Political Intelligence | £56,633 | 1 Dec 2026 |
| Awarded - ITT - Lot 1: Provision of Public Relations Services | buys | Spreckley Partners Limited | £144,000 | 1 Dec 2026 |
| Hard FM Service | buys | Smart Managed Solutions | £2,000,000 | 31 Mar 2027 |
| ITT - Learning Management System | buys | SkillGate | £46,980 | 1 Apr 2027 |
| ITT - Product Lifecycle Management System | buys | · | · | 7 Apr 2027 |
| ITT - Security Operations Centre (SOC) | buys | · | · | 30 Jun 2027 |
contracts won
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contracts published
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where these figures come from
Every figure on this page is derived from notices published by Contracts Finder, Find a Tender, Public Contracts Scotland and Sell2Wales, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. The corpus runs from 17 Dec 2014 to 13 Sept 2026 and is refreshed from the publishers' own APIs through the working day.
Records are combined into one organisation on identifiers where publishers provide them — a Companies House number, a GB-PPON supplier id — and on exact normalised name and address where they do not. Never on address alone: one shared-service postcode carries 244 unrelated organisations.
Counts are of contracting processes, not published notices: a tender and its award notice are one contract, and are counted once. Values are medians, never totals, and exclude framework ceilings — a ceiling states a spending limit shared across every supplier on the framework, so adding them together produces a number no one ever spent. sources and coverage · how matching works
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