National Physical Laboratory: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
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Tenders you can still bid for.
Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed, counted the way the search counts them: a notice shows under every code and region it names.
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Notices published in the last 12 months.
Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.
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How much of this buyer’s work goes to its three most frequent suppliers.
Share of its awarded tenders that name at least one of the top three. Each tender is counted once.
57 awarded tenders, 47 different suppliers.
Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
What they buyi
What kind of work is bought here.
Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.
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What kind of work is bought here.
Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.
Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each
38 Laboratory, optical and precision2 procedures · 67%45 Construction work1 procedure · 33%How they buyi
How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
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How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
Last 24 months · 3 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim
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How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
Contract100%(3 notices)
3 of 3 notices are Contract (100%).
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Which procedures buyers here use.
Notices by the procedure they declare: open, selective, limited or direct. Open and selective are competitions; limited and direct are not.
Limited / restricted33%(1 notice)
1 of 3 notices is Limited / restricted (33%).Open33%(1 notice)
1 of 3 notices is Open (33%).Route not published33%(1 notice)
1 of 3 notices is Route not published (33%).
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Based on 3 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
Who wins herei
Which suppliers win the most here.
Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.
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Which suppliers win the most here.
Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.
All published awards naming a supplier · ranked by distinct procedures, not pounds · panel and call-off entries inflate award records
| Supplier | Procedures | Share | Last 24m | Award records | Last activity |
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| Keysight Technologies UK Limited | 5 | 8.8% | 0 | 5 | — |
| Menlo Systems GmbH | 3 | 5.3% | 0 | 4 | — |
| PHOTONIC SOLUTIONS LIMITED | 2 | 3.5% | 1 | 2 | — |
| Peak Analysis and Automation Ltd | 2 | 3.5% | 0 | 2 | — |
| TimeTech | 2 | 3.5% | 0 | 2 | — |
| attocube system AG | 2 | 3.5% | 0 | 2 | — |
| AMISTON LIMITED | 2 | 3.5% | 0 | 2 | — |
| High Voltage Engineering Europa B.V. | 2 | 3.5% | 0 | 2 | — |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 18% of 57 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 47 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards, not a statement of preference.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
Largest published awards iThe biggest published awards. Awards to a single supplier with a published value, largest first, so you can check the totals against the notice. A repeated framework total can appear here. Open the notice to check. | Supplier | Awarded | Term | Published value |
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| SRS Laser Replacement | PHOTONIC SOLUTIONS LIMITED | — | — | £268,982 † |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 110 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cryogen Free JJ Volt SystemLaboratory | Open | 27 Jan 2025 | £350,000 |
| Laboratory building construction work (Building 47) for the National Physical LaboratoryBuilding construction work | Planned | 13 Dec 2024 | £5,000,000 |
| SRS Laser ReplacementLaboratory | Awarded / complete | 27 Nov 2024 | — |
| Cryo-free QHR FridgeLaboratory | Open | 1 Nov 2024 | £185,000 |
| Test Tool RenewalSoftware package and information systems | Awarded / complete | 11 Oct 2024 | — |
| CR Tuneable LaserLaboratory | Open | 8 Oct 2024 | £500,000 |
| Replacement Cylindrical Grinding MachineLaboratory | Awarded / complete | 4 Oct 2024 | — |
| Cyber Security Team Capabilities UpskillingEducation and training services | Awarded / complete | 25 Sept 2024 | — |
| ORAN Security Test Tools 2IT services: consulting | Awarded / complete | 25 Sept 2024 | — |
| ORAN Security Test ToolsIT services: consulting | Awarded / complete | 24 Sept 2024 | — |
| IR Laser System for generating tuneable wavelength of light between 1.5 – 3.5 µmLaboratory | Awarded / complete | 13 Sept 2024 | — |
| Procurement of Electrolyser Alkaline Test StationLaboratory | Open | 19 Aug 2024 | £400,000 |
| Procurement of Dilution Refrigerator for Measurements of Superconducting QubitsLaboratory | Open | 5 Aug 2024 | £175,000 |
| Walk-in Environmental ChamberLaboratory | Open | 31 Jul 2024 | £190,000 |
| sSNOM Upgrade for University of ManchesterLaboratory | Awarded / complete | 15 Jul 2024 | — |
| VEAT_129092-External Beam Gamma Teletherapy SystemLaboratory | Awarded / complete | 10 Jul 2024 | — |
| PIN: CR Tuneable LaserLaboratory | Planned | 9 Jul 2024 | £500,000 |
| Soft Services Contractor (Cleaning & Logistics)Cleaning services | Planned | 4 Jul 2024 | £7,000,000 |
| Security Services ContractPublic security services | Planned | 4 Jul 2024 | £5,500,000 |
| PIN: Electrolyser Alkaline Test StationLaboratory | Planned | 26 Jun 2024 | £400,000 |
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- One profile per authority. Different spellings and registration numbers of the same body are merged into this profile. It includes tenders the authority ran for other bodies and tenders run on its behalf; spend is credited to the body that pays.
- Values are published values. Award values are what the authority published, excluding VAT and framework ceilings. They are not a budget or total spend.
- Contract end dates. 15 of 62 published contracts have an end date; 4 of those are estimated as the signature (or publication) date plus the published duration and are marked “estimated”. They feed “Contracts ending”, the same rule as the retender radar.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.