According to ENKII, UK public bodies have awarded 5,734 laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses) contracts worth £15.8bn to 2,715 suppliers across 767 buyers, with 2,148 tenders open now, and the top five suppliers holding 7080% of spend.
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The top five suppliers hold 7080% of contract value.
Common requirements
Across 32 analysed tenders.
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ID 6612871 - DAERA - AFBI - Comprehensive Radiological Monitoring Survey for Radionuclide Decommissioning Project
Agri-Food and Biosciences InstitutePublic Procurement Organisation · closes 2026-08-03
£125K
ID 6612871 - DAERA - AFBI - Comprehensive Radiological Monitoring Survey for Radionuclide Decommissioning Project
CPD - Supplies and Services Division · closes 2026-08-03
1D Measurement Beam
NPL Management Limited · closes 2026-08-07
Lab Consumables – Lot 1 Chromatography & ICP, Lot 2 Chemicals, Lot 3 Reagents
United Utilities Water Limited · closes 2026-08-11
£15.7M
Trace, Evaluate and Reinforce (TracER)
Department for Transport · closes 2026-08-17
£135K
Urinalysis and Urine Pregnancy Testing
Regional Business Services Organisation, Procurement and Logistics Service · closes 2026-08-21
£10.4M
Urinalysis and Urine Pregnancy Testing
Regional Business Services Organisation Procurement and Logistics Service · closes 2026-08-21
Octet R8 System
Defence Science and Technology Laboratory · closes 2026-08-21
£250K
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Aggregated by ENKII from public-record UK procurement data (Find a Tender + Contracts Finder, Open Government Licence v3.0), grouped by CPV division 38. We fetch, deduplicate and aggregate source records — we don't edit the underlying facts. find-tender.service.gov.uk