Appleton Woods Ltd: UK Public Sector Contracts Won & Awards

SMECompanies House: Private Limited CompanyBirminghamWest MidlandsMain market: Microscopes

Companies House00907224 ↗ · Active

Procedures with an award3784 award records

Public authorities24named on published awards

Attributable award value£621knet · on 6 of 62 award records · single-supplier, no ceilings

Last 12 months7awards · 35 in the prior 24 months · last 4 Aug 2026

Contracts ending ≤18 months17end date on 53 of 84 awards · 16 estimated

Buyer regions10most often Greater London

Where they win
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62 awards (37 for a named lot, 60%, 25 for a whole procedure with no lot named) · top CPV classes, shares of all 62 awards. An award may cover more than one class.

3379 Laboratory, hygienic or pharmaceutical glassware22 awards · 35% · 6 awards naming a lot + 16 whole-procedure awards

2430 Basic inorganic and organic chemicals5 awards · 8% · awards naming a lot

3851 Microscopes5 awards · 8% · awards naming a lot

3916 School furniture2 awards · 3% · awards naming a lot

3311 Imaging equipment for medical, dental and veterinary use1 award · 2% · awards naming a lot

3315 Radiotherapy, mechanotherapy, electrotherapy and physical therapy devices1 award · 2% · awards naming a lot

Attributable award value

£621kOn 6 of 62 award records; the five largest make 95%. Largest rows below.

Typical attributable award

£56k middle valuerobust · n=6

Largest published awards i	Authority	Awarded	Term	Published value
Lot 12: Microscope	Aberystwyth University	—	—	£268,749 †
Metafer MetaSystems Microscope System for Cytogenetics Group	Secretary of State for Health and Social Care acting as part of the Crown through UK Health Security Agency	—	7 mo	£164,920 †
PS129J - Microscopes for Laboratories Refurbishment Project	Birmingham City University	—	1 mo	£66,500 †
Lot 6: Microscopes	Aberystwyth University	—	—	£45,546 †
Waiver - UHB_HGS - Appleton Woods Ltd - Capital purchase of UV microscope at Heartlands Hospital	University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust	—	4 mo	£41,799 †

Where their buyers are
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ITL1 region of the buyer office · known for 37 of 37 awarded procedures · each procedure counts once

Greater London14 procedures · 38%

South West England8 procedures · 22%

West Midlands3 procedures · 8%

Wales (Cymru)3 procedures · 8%

East Midlands2 procedures · 5%

East of England2 procedures · 5%

Scotland2 procedures · 5%

North East England1 procedure · 3%

Who they sell to
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Authorities named on this supplier’s published awards · ranked by distinct procedures · a framework or DPS adds one award record per appointed supplier

Authority type · official UK type when published, else name/id class, else not classified · by award records (a single panel can dominate)

Type not classified66%(41 awards)
41 of 62 awards are Type not classified (66%).
Education29%(18 awards)
18 of 62 awards are Education (29%).
NHS & health5%(3 awards)
3 of 62 awards are NHS & health (5%).

Authority	Procedures	Share	Award records	Last activity
Public Health Englandframework/DPS on 2	5	13.5%	5	26 Nov 2021
UK Shared Business Services Ltdframework/DPS on 2	4	10.8%	17	19 Dec 2023
LUPC Ltdframework/DPS on 2	3	8.1%	11	30 Sept 2025
APUC Ltdframework/DPS on 2	2	5.4%	14	4 Aug 2026
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care acting as part of the Crown through UK Health Security Agency	2	5.4%	2	16 Jul 2026
ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH AGENCY (Defra Network eTendering Portal)	2	5.4%	2	23 Jul 2025
University of the West of England	2	5.4%	2	11 Apr 2024
Swansea Bay University Health Board	1	2.7%	8	2 Aug 2024

Share = of the 37 procedures with an award naming this supplier. Last activity = award date, or notice publication when no award date was published.

Contracts ending
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53 of 84 awards carry an end date, 26 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast

Contract	Ends	Published value
Lot 1 General Glass	22 Jun 2027 estimated	£1,000,000 ceiling
Lot 4 Tissue Culture / Laboratory Plastics	22 Jun 2027 estimated	£1,000,000 ceiling
Lot 3 Lab Consumables	22 Jun 2027 estimated	£1,000,000 ceiling
Lot 5 Tissue Culture Consumables	22 Jun 2027 estimated	£1,000,000 ceiling
Lot 7 Health, Safety and Hygiene	22 Jun 2027 estimated	£1,000,000 ceiling
Supply of Swabs and consumables	15 Jul 2027	£200,000
Laboratory Equipment and Consumables	17 Jul 2027 estimated	£1,600,000,000 ceiling
Centrifuges	16 Sept 2027 estimated	£769,230 ceiling
Safety Equipment	16 Sept 2027 estimated	£769,230 ceiling
Measurement Equipment	16 Sept 2027 estimated	£769,230 ceiling

Soonest 10 of 17.

Recent awards

Latest 30 of 62 award records naming this supplier

Contracts Finder adds 22 more procedures won by this supplier, 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.

Award / procedure	Authority	Awarded	Published value
Lot 2 - Environmental Control	LUPC Ltd	Not published	£200,000,000 † framework ceiling · 1 of 7 appointed suppliers
Lot 3 - Safety	LUPC Ltd	Not published	£200,000,000 † framework ceiling · 1 of 7 appointed suppliers
Lot 4 - Measurement	LUPC Ltd	Not published	£200,000,000 † framework ceiling · 1 of 7 appointed suppliers
Lot 5 - Environmental Storage - Fridges and Freezers	LUPC Ltd	Not published	£200,000,000 † framework ceiling · 1 of 7 appointed suppliers
Lot 6 - Environmental Storage - Other	LUPC Ltd	Not published	£200,000,000 † framework ceiling · 1 of 7 appointed suppliers
Lot 7: General Equipment (Misc.)	LUPC Ltd	Not published	£200,000,000 † framework ceiling · 1 of 7 appointed suppliers
Lot 8 - Water Purification Systems	LUPC Ltd	Not published	£200,000,000 † framework ceiling · 1 of 7 appointed suppliers
Lot 1 General Glass	Queen's University Belfast	Not published	£1,000,000 † framework ceiling · 1 of 9 appointed suppliers
Lot 4 Tissue Culture / Laboratory Plastics	Queen's University Belfast	Not published	£1,000,000 † framework ceiling · 1 of 12 appointed suppliers
Lot 3 Lab Consumables	Queen's University Belfast	Not published	£1,000,000 † framework ceiling · 1 of 7 appointed suppliers

About this data

One profile per supplier. Built from award and contract notices that name this supplier; different spellings and registration numbers of the same company are merged into this profile.
Values are published values. The table mirrors what the notice published: framework ceilings and joint awards are labelled and never counted as this supplier's money, and † marks a value taken from the contract notice when the award published none. Only awards made to this supplier alone count towards its value, excluding VAT. It is not turnover.
Regions in the buyer chart describe the buyer office, not where the work is delivered or the supplier’s registered address.
Contract end dates. Published on 27 of 84 awards, estimated from the published duration on 26 more (marked “estimated”); those feed “Contracts ending”. 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.