National Physical Laboratory: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Companies House: Private Limited Company·GOV.UK register: Public corporation·Nationwide (UK)·Teddington
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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 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 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 precision5 procedures · 71%45 Construction work1 procedures · 14%48 Software package and information systems1 procedures · 14%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 · 7 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 100% (7 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.
- Limited / restricted 43% (3 notices)
- Open 43% (3 notices)
- Route not published 14% (1 notices)
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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 7 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% | 1 | 5 | 11 Oct 2024 |
| Menlo Systems GmbH | 3 | 5.3% | 0 | 4 | 9 Feb 2024 |
| PHOTONIC SOLUTIONS LIMITED | 2 | 3.5% | 1 | 2 | 27 Nov 2024 |
| Peak Analysis and Automation Ltd | 2 | 3.5% | 0 | 2 | 13 Feb 2024 |
| TimeTech | 2 | 3.5% | 0 | 2 | 13 Mar 2024 |
| attocube system AG | 2 | 3.5% | 0 | 2 | 15 Jul 2024 |
| AMISTON LIMITED | 2 | 3.5% | 0 | 2 | 26 Jan 2023 |
| High Voltage Engineering Europa B.V. | 2 | 3.5% | 0 | 2 | 9 Mar 2023 |
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 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.
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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| Test Tool Support Renewal | Keysight Technologies UK Limited | — | — | £498,696 † |
| SRS Laser Replacement | PHOTONIC SOLUTIONS LIMITED | — | — | £268,982 † |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 110 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Maritime Unmanned Surface VehicleSpecialised boats | Planned | 15 Dec 2023 | £700,000 |
| NPL - Mass SpectrometerLaboratory | Planned | 14 Dec 2023 | £1,120,000 |
| Procurement of a 350-1000 nm Tunable Pulsed Laser SourceLaboratory | Open | 20 Nov 2023 | £270,000 |
| 1Office and computing machinery | Planned | 8 Nov 2023 | £1,000,000 |
| 400000Laboratory | Open | 17 Oct 2023 | £400,000 |
| Optical Microscope CryostatLaboratory | Awarded / complete | 27 Sept 2023 | — |
| CAN - Procurement of Satellite Earth Stations and Lease of Satellite Transponder BandwidthSatellite antennas | Awarded / complete | 29 Aug 2023 | — |
| UK public contract noticeLaboratory | Open | 17 Aug 2023 | £175,000 |
| Quantum Cascade Laser Analyser for Greenhouse Gases and Air PollutantsLaboratory | Awarded / complete | 28 Jul 2023 | — |
| Hard FM Services (Maintenance)Laboratory | Planned | 11 Jul 2023 | £10,000,000 |
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 (£51m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 3 award records on 3 procedures (3 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 2 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: 1 of 62 published contracts carry a period end; 0 end within 18 months, 0 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (1 historical Find a Tender publication identifier)
Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.
Canonical page id: GB-FTS-155