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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| 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 | £400,000 |
| CAN - Procurement of Satellite Earth Stations and Lease of Satellite Transponder BandwidthSatellite antennas | Awarded / complete | 29 Aug 2023 | £300,000 |
| UK public contract notice 127555 — National Physical LaboratoryLaboratory | 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 |
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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.
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0, updated through the day and rebuilt nightly. Not every figure uses both feeds, and each one shows how many records it rests on: see the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.