Thorlabs Ltd: UK Public Sector Contracts Won & Awards
Companies House: Private Limited Company·Cambridgeshire·East of England·Main market: Fibre-optic materials
Official UK PPONPTNQ-1736-YYYL
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How many tenders this supplier has won.
Tenders with at least one award to it. Award records are shown too, because one framework can carry many call-offs.
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How many different public bodies have awarded to this supplier.
Buyers named on its awards, with duplicate names merged.
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How much this supplier has won, by published values.
Sum of award values where it was the only winner, VAT excluded, framework ceilings left out.
Not turnover. Not every award publishes a value.
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Awards to this supplier in the last 12 months.
Award records dated in the last 12 months, against the two years before.
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Contracts ending in that window by the published end date or, where only a duration is published, an estimate from signature plus duration (marked). Neither, not counted.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
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In which regions this supplier wins work.
The region of each buyer it won from: the buyer’s office, placed by the official ONS postcode lookup. Each procedure counts once.
Where the buyer is based, not necessarily where the work was done; the tender page shows the published place of delivery.
Where they wini
In which categories this supplier wins.
Distinct awards by the main category of the lot, or of the procedure when no lot is named. Repeat publications count once.
An award counts once in each class it covers; classes can overlap.
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In which categories this supplier wins.
Distinct awards by the main category of the lot, or of the procedure when no lot is named. Repeat publications count once.
An award counts once in each class it covers; classes can overlap.
10 awards (10 for a named lot, 100%, 0 for a whole procedure with no lot named) · top CPV classes, shares of all 10 awards. An award may cover more than one class.
3256 Fibre-optic materials2 awards · 20% · awards naming a lot3851 Microscopes2 awards · 20% · awards naming a lot4461 Tanks, reservoirs, containers and pressure vessels1 awards · 10% · awards naming a lot4877 General, compression and print utility software package1 awards · 10% · awards naming a loti
How much this supplier has won, by published values.
Sum of award values where it was the only winner, VAT excluded, framework ceilings left out.
Not turnover. Not every award publishes a value.
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What one of this supplier’s wins is usually worth.
Middle value of the same awards as the total above.
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Does this supplier usually win above or below the buyer’s estimate.
Its own wins, estimate against award per lot, in its sector.
Based on 1 wins across all categories. Small sample.
A past pattern, not a margin and not a price to bid.
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. | Authority | Awarded | Term | Published value |
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| 3693/JN - Multi-Photon Microscope System | University of Sheffield | — | — | £168,708 † |
| Optics & Optomechanics Parts | NPL Management Limited | — | 1 mo | £64,171 † |
| UKRI-6228 HyperK Fibre | UK Research and Innovation | — | 5 mo | £54,937 † |
| UKRI-6250 Service Contract for a Multiphoton Microscope | UK Research and Innovation | — | 3.9 yrs | £37,600 † ≈ £10k/yr |
| CSP25408 - Multimode Fibers | UK Research and Innovation | — | 2 mo | £29,970 † |
Where their buyers arei
In which regions this supplier wins work.
The region of each buyer it won from: the buyer’s office, placed by the official ONS postcode lookup. Each procedure counts once.
Where the buyer is based, not necessarily where the work was done; the tender page shows the published place of delivery.
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In which regions this supplier wins work.
The region of each buyer it won from: the buyer’s office, placed by the official ONS postcode lookup. Each procedure counts once.
Where the buyer is based, not necessarily where the work was done; the tender page shows the published place of delivery.
ITL1 region of the buyer office · known for 10 of 10 awarded procedures · each procedure counts once
Who they sell toi
Which public bodies award work to this supplier.
Authorities named on its published awards, ranked by distinct procedures, duplicate names merged.
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Which public bodies award work to this supplier.
Authorities named on its published awards, ranked by distinct procedures, duplicate names merged.
Authorities named on this supplier’s published awards · ranked by distinct procedures · a framework or DPS adds one award record per appointed supplier
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What kinds of public bodies award work to this supplier.
Its award records by the authority’s published type, otherwise by its name. One framework can add many records.
Central government50%(5 awards)
5 of 10 awards are Central government (50%).Education40%(4 awards)
4 of 10 awards are Education (40%).Other public body10%(1 awards)
1 of 10 awards are Other public body (10%).
| Authority | Procedures | Share | Award records | Last activity |
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| UK Research and Innovation | 5 | 50% | 5 | 23 Jul 2026 |
| University of Sheffield | 1 | 10% | 1 | 3 Nov 2023 |
| NPL Management Limited | 1 | 10% | 1 | 19 Feb 2026 |
| University of Glasgow | 1 | 10% | 1 | 22 Mar 2023 |
| Heriot-Watt University | 1 | 10% | 1 | 21 Oct 2025 |
| Nottingham Trent University | 1 | 10% | 1 | 29 Oct 2024 |
Share = of the 10 procedures with an award naming this supplier. Last activity = award date, or notice publication when no award date was published.
Contracts endingi
Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Contracts ending in that window by the published end date or, where only a duration is published, an estimate from signature plus duration (marked). Neither, not counted.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Contracts ending in that window by the published end date or, where only a duration is published, an estimate from signature plus duration (marked). Neither, not counted.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
9 of 10 awards carry an end date, 2 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Ends | Published value |
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| UKRI 6228 HyperK Fibre | 17 Dec 2026 | £54,937 |
Recent awards
Latest 10 of 10 award records naming this supplier
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 supplier. Built from award and contract notices that name this supplier; different spellings and registration numbers of the same company are merged into this profile.
- Values are published values. The table mirrors what the notice published: framework ceilings and joint awards are labelled and never counted as this supplier's money, and † marks a value taken from the contract notice when the award published none. Only awards made to this supplier alone count towards its value, excluding VAT. It is not turnover.
- Regions on this page are where the work is delivered, not the supplier’s registered address.
- Contract end dates. Published on 7 of 10 awards, estimated from the published duration on 2 more (marked “estimated”); those feed “Contracts ending”.
- 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.