National Physical Laboratory: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
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146 awarded tenders, 118 different suppliers.
What they buyi
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Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each
38 Laboratory, optical and precision4 procedures · 133%73 Research and development services3 procedures · 100%45 Construction work1 procedure · 33%48 Software package and information systems1 procedure · 33%How they buyi
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Last 24 months · 3 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim
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Contract100%(3 notices)
3 of 3 notices are Contract (100%).
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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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Based on 3 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
Who wins herei
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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 | 6 | 4.1% | 0 | 6 | 20 Dec 2021 |
| Anritsu EMEA Limited | 4 | 2.7% | 0 | 4 | 4 Mar 2025 |
| Mirion Technologies (CANBERRA UK) Ltd | 4 | 2.7% | 0 | 4 | 14 Jun 2023 |
| Menlo Systems GmbH | 3 | 2.1% | 0 | 4 | — |
| Rohde & Schwarz UK Ltd | 3 | 2.1% | 0 | 3 | 16 Oct 2023 |
| Rohde and Schwarz UK Ltd | 3 | 2.1% | 0 | 3 | 24 Nov 2021 |
| PHOTONIC SOLUTIONS LIMITED | 2 | 1.4% | 1 | 2 | — |
| Menlo Systems GmbH | 2 | 1.4% | 0 | 2 | 9 Jan 2023 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 10% of 146 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 118 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards, not a statement of preference.
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Largest published awards i | Supplier | Awarded | Term | Published value |
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| SRS Laser Replacement | PHOTONIC SOLUTIONS LIMITED | — | — | £268,982 † |
Contracts endingi
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112 of 159 contracts carry an end date, 4 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Awarded - ITT - Lot 1: Provision of Public Relations Services | Spreckley Partners Limited | 1 Dec 2026 | £144,000 |
| Awarded - ITT - Lot 2: Provision of Policy Monitoring Services | DeHavilland Political Intelligence | 1 Dec 2026 | £56,633 |
| Hard FM Service | Smart Managed Solutions | 31 Mar 2027 | £2,000,000 |
| Awarded ITT: PLM - Product Lifecycle Management System | Desktop Engineering Limited | 11 Oct 2027 | £720,000 |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 109 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| 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 |
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Contracts Finder adds 181 more procedures by this authority, mostly below the Find a Tender threshold or from before 2025. Each is counted once beside any Find a Tender copy; they are in the totals, not in this list or in search.
About this data
- 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. 112 of 159 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. Published values in that list come from either source; Contracts Finder figures are shown as published and stay out of this profile’s money totals.
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