Defence Science and Technology Laboratory: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Companies House: Private Limited Company·GOV.UK register: Executive agency·Central government·South West England·Salisbury
Official UK PPONPDDM-1961-MTLN
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Tenders you can still bid for.
Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.
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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 many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.
Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.
Based on 10 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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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.
118 awarded tenders, 104 different suppliers.
Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.
A likely retender, not a certain one.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.
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 precision4 procedures · 3%80 Education and training services3 procedures · 3%24 Chemical products2 procedures · 2%32 Radio, television, communication2 procedures · 2%35 Security, fire-fighting, police2 procedures · 2%63 Supporting and auxiliary transport; travel2 procedures · 2%73 Research and development services2 procedures · 2%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting2 procedures · 2%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 · 117 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.
- Contract 99% (116 notices)
- Framework 1% (1 notices)
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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.
- Direct award 62% (72 notices)
- Open 13% (15 notices)
- Route not published 13% (15 notices)
- Limited / restricted 9% (11 notices)
- Selective 3% (4 notices)
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.
Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.
Based on 10 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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How long this buyer takes to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from deadline to first award notice, on this buyer’s own tenders.
Based on 9 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.
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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 117 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
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Do this buyer’s awards land above or below its own estimates.
Each lot’s published estimate against its award, on this buyer’s competitions, like for like.
Based on 5 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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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| S. H. L. REFRACTORIES (U.K.) LIMITED | 5 | 4.2% | 5 | 5 | 12 Aug 2026 |
| Atlantas Marine Ltd | 3 | 2.5% | 0 | 4 | 10 Feb 2023 |
| Queen Mary University of London | 2 | 1.7% | 2 | 2 | 25 Sept 2026 |
| Contained Air Solutions Ltd | 2 | 1.7% | 2 | 2 | 11 Feb 2026 |
| 2 | 1.7% | 2 | 2 | 20 May 2026 | |
| University of Surrey | 2 | 1.7% | 2 | 2 | 15 Sept 2025 |
| Molecular Devices (UK) Ltd | 2 | 1.7% | 2 | 2 | 4 Mar 2026 |
| Edinburgh Innovations Limited | 2 | 1.7% | 2 | 2 | 29 Jun 2026 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 8% of 118 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 104 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 award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
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What one of this buyer’s contracts is usually worth.
Middle value of the same awards as the total above.
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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| M&E and Civil Construction Minor Works | CONCEPT BUILDING SERVICES (SOUTHERN) LTD | 20 Aug 2026 | 3 yrs · up to 5 yrs | £3,000,000 ≈ £1.0m/yr |
| PA0000003042 Dstl Shuttle Service | COLLECTIVETECH LIMITED | 18 Aug 2025 | 3 yrs · up to 5 yrs | £2,923,222 ≈ £974k/yr |
| Equipment Cabinets and Enclosures | Steatite Limited | 18 Aug 2025 | 2.9 yrs | £1,649,818 ≈ £566k/yr |
| Creative Hub - Lot 1 | Media Zoo Limited | — | — | £1,023,009 † |
| Creative Hub - Lot 1 | Media Zoo Limited | — | — | £770,000 † |
Contracts endingi
Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.
A likely retender, not a certain one.
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.
A likely retender, not a certain one.
Published end dates only · 100 of 123 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Dstl0000066480 | Fisher Scientific UK | 30 Sept 2026 | £1,855 |
| Refractory Repairs | S. H. L. REFRACTORIES (U.K.) LIMITED | 30 Sept 2026 | £18,365 |
| On-Site UKAS Sensor Calibration | Haier Biomedical UK Ltd | 30 Sept 2026 | £11,760 |
| Feedly for Market Intelligence | Feedly Inc | 4 Oct 2026 | US$31,600 |
| IPMO 2323.03 - Signal Generators | Rohde and Schwarz UK Ltd | 13 Nov 2026 | £98,920 |
| Controlled Key Management Systems | ASSA ABLOY GLOBAL SOLUTIONS UK LIMITED T/A Traka | 27 Nov 2026 | £13,796 |
| UK7_Support and Service Contract of PLC | SIEMENS PLC | 29 Jan 2027 | £16,215 |
| IPMO 2168.12 - High-Speed X-Ray | Dynamic Research Innovations Incorporated | 31 Mar 2027 | £221,600 |
| supply of aluminium plate | MTL Advanced Ltd | 1 Apr 2027 | £49,463 |
| Dstl0000064286 | Timberlake Ventures LLC | 30 Apr 2027 | US$15,000 |
Soonest 10 of 22 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 138 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| DSTL0000060729 | Awarded / complete | 16 Mar 2026 | — |
| Hire of Tractor – Rural TeamHire of agricultural machinery with operator | Open | 13 Mar 2026 | £30,000 |
| DSTL0000060239 | Awarded / complete | 10 Mar 2026 | — |
| Dstl000061245 | Awarded / complete | 4 Mar 2026 | — |
| Portfolio Office Integrated Tool SolutionIT services: consulting | Open | 27 Feb 2026 | £1,340,000 |
| Inlet w/EPC | Awarded / complete | 26 Feb 2026 | — |
| 11-D Set | Awarded / complete | 24 Feb 2026 | — |
| • Purchasing 2 second hand oscilloscopes from Keysight, which meet requirements. | Awarded / complete | 23 Feb 2026 | — |
| Core X Flex Station | Awarded / complete | 20 Feb 2026 | — |
| Provision of SolidWorks Training coursesPersonnel-training services | Open | 13 Feb 2026 | £60,000 |
Data coverage & method
- Source: Find a Tender OCDS releases; mixed PCR 2015 / Procurement Act 2023 history — no legal-regime label is applied.
- Counts are procedures (one notice family), not lots. Authority cluster = canonical buyer plus beneficiary and procuring-entity roles.
- Published procedure values exist on a minority of notices; their lifetime sum (£7.3m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 107 award records on 103 procedures (105 to a single canonical supplier, 2 multi-supplier). 86 values come from the contract record when the award carried none.
- Bid counts, deadline-to-award, amendments and award-vs-estimate come from the nightly buyer analytics row; each figure’s own method and sample is behind its , the long form on Methodology.
- Contract end dates: 100 of 123 published contracts carry a period end; 22 end within 18 months, 7 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (11 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)
Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.
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