THE PIRBRIGHT INSTITUTE: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Companies House: PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)·South East England·Woking
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Tenders you can still bid for.
Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed, counted the way the search counts them: a notice shows under every code and region it names.
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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 4 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.
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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.
50 awarded tenders, 41 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.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
Open notices
2 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
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| ISO11 Fumigation Lobby and Dedicated Air Handling Unit (AHU) - Retender | 13 Nov 2026 | 24d | £151,666 |
| Provision of Payroll Services | 18 Nov 2026 | 29d | £85,000 |
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
45 Construction work16 procedures · 25% · 1 open71 Architectural, construction, engineering13 procedures · 20% · 1 open50 Repair and maintenance services10 procedures · 16%31 Electrical machinery9 procedures · 14%42 Industrial machinery9 procedures · 14%51 Installation services (except software)8 procedures · 13%90 Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental7 procedures · 11% · 1 open44 Construction structures and materials7 procedures · 11%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 · 64 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.
Contract92%(59 notices)
59 of 64 notices are Contract (92%).Framework8%(5 notices)
5 of 64 notices are Framework (8%).
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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 award48%(31 notices)
31 of 64 notices are Direct award (48%).Open47%(30 notices)
30 of 64 notices are Open (47%).Limited / restricted5%(3 notices)
3 of 64 notices are Limited / restricted (5%).
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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 4 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.
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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 11 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 64 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 1 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.
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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| SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC LIMITED | 3 | 6% | 3 | 3 | — |
| ASSA ABLOY GLOBAL SOLUTIONS UK LIMITED T/A Traka | 2 | 4% | 2 | 2 | — |
| Beckman Coulter United Kingdom Limited | 2 | 4% | 2 | 2 | — |
| CJB Commissing Services | 2 | 4% | 2 | 2 | — |
| Luhrfilter Ltd | 2 | 4% | 2 | 2 | 7 May 2026 |
| Terra-NRG Ltd | 2 | 4% | 2 | 2 | — |
| Safety Gas Detection Ltd | 2 | 4% | 2 | 2 | — |
| Fuel Conservation services Ltd | 2 | 4% | 1 | 2 | — |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 14% of 50 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 41 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 published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
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The middle published award value for this buyer.
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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| Brooksby Incinerator – Refractory Replacement | Fuel Conservation services Ltd | — | 2 mo | £267,995 † |
| Brooksby Incinerator PLC Systems and Scada Modifications | Luhrfilter Ltd | 7 May 2026 | 5 mo | £248,900 |
| Ultra, High-speed, & Bench Top centrifuges | Beckman Coulter United Kingdom Limited | — | 1.1 yrs | £195,000 † ≈ £180k/yr |
| Formulation machine | Global Life Sciences Solutions Operations UK Ltd | — | 1 mo | £154,360 † |
| Site HV/LV Supplies Maintenance Retender | UK Power Networks Services (Commercial) Limited | — | 3 yrs · up to 4 yrs | £151,216 † ≈ £50k/yr |
Contracts endingi
Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
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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.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
Published end dates only · 49 of 50 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| BARCO 3-year service contract. | Barco NV | 31 Oct 2026 | £26,398 |
| Benchtop centrifuge | Beckman Coulter United Kingdom Limited | 30 Nov 2026 | £87,000 |
| QIAcuity One, 5plex Platform Device | Qiagen Limited | 30 Nov 2026 | £50,000 |
| Ultra, High-speed, & Bench Top centrifuges | Beckman Coulter United Kingdom Limited | 30 Jan 2027 | £195,000 |
| Rental of Containerised/Trailer Steam Boiler House | CJB Commissioning Services | 31 Mar 2027 | £61,277 |
| Traka Standard Service Level Agreement and Software License Renewal | ASSA ABLOY GLOBAL SOLUTIONS UK LIMITED T/A Traka | 30 Apr 2027 | £26,977 |
| Biological Safety Cabinet (BSCs), Fume Cupboard (FC), Laminar Flow Cabinets (LFCs) & PCR Workstation Maintenance Contract – The Pirbright Institute | Walker Safety Cabinets Limited | 28 Aug 2027 | £170,265 |
| XPR105MCP balance | Mettler Toledo Ltd | 30 Nov 2027 | £43,000 |
| ISO 11 - Fumigation Lobby Replacement Project Manager | Grationeer Ltd | 31 Mar 2028 | £81,264 |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 72 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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| Schneider EBO Service Contract | Awarded / complete | 28 Nov 2025 | — |
| BARCO 3-year service contract. | Awarded / complete | 28 Nov 2025 | — |
| Biological Safety Cabinet (BSCs), Fume Cupboard (FC), Laminar Flow Cabinets (LFCs) & PCR Workstation Maintenance Contract – The Pirbright InstituteLaboratory | Awarded / complete | 3 Sept 2025 | £100,000 |
| Condenser Fan Replacement - Biggs Building Chiller | Awarded / complete | 28 Aug 2025 | — |
| ISO 11 Incinerator Life Extension Project – WP9 Primary Catch Box UpgradeAssembly of metal structures | Awarded / complete | 28 Aug 2025 | £45,000 |
| Brooksby Building Incinerator - Re-testing and commissioning of the Incinerator's BACS alarms points | Awarded / complete | 28 Aug 2025 | — |
| Renewal of service contract for the power back-up generator control systems for Plowright and the Energy Centre (EC1) | Awarded / complete | 28 Aug 2025 | — |
| Site Steam Upgrade: Phase 2 Project - Project Management and Detailed Design.Engineering design services | Awarded / complete | 21 Jul 2025 | £80,000 |
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 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. 49 of 50 published contracts state an end date; 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.