Merck Life Science UK Limited: UK Public Sector Contracts Won & Awards

Large organisationCompanies House: Private Limited CompanyGillinghamNationwide (UK)Main market: Distilling, filtering or rectifying apparatus

Companies House00660457 ↗ · Active

Procedures with an award5785 award records

Public authorities21named on published awards

Attributable award value£422knet · on 11 of 52 award records · single-supplier, no ceilings

Last 12 months12awards · 15 in the prior 24 months · last 21 Sept 2026

Contracts ending ≤18 months19end date on 61 of 85 awards · 13 estimated

Buyer regions9most often South West England

Where they win
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52 awards (31 for a named lot, 60%, 21 for a whole procedure with no lot named) · top CPV classes, shares of all 52 awards. An award may cover more than one class.

3379 Laboratory, hygienic or pharmaceutical glassware24 awards · 46% · 6 awards naming a lot + 18 whole-procedure awards

2430 Basic inorganic and organic chemicals6 awards · 12% · awards naming a lot

4291 Distilling, filtering or rectifying apparatus3 awards · 6% · awards naming a lot

3314 Medical consumables2 awards · 4% · awards naming a lot

3365 General anti-infectives for systemic use, vaccines, antineoplastic and immunodulating agents2 awards · 4% · awards naming a lot

5080 Miscellaneous repair and maintenance services2 awards · 4% · awards naming a lot

3843 Detection and analysis apparatus1 award · 2% · whole-procedure awards

7190 Laboratory services1 award · 2% · awards naming a lot

Attributable award value

£422kOn 11 of 52 award records; the five largest make 82%; a further 1 published a VAT-inclusive amount only (£129k inc. VAT, kept apart). Largest rows below.

Typical attributable award

£15k middle valuerobust · n=11

Award vs estimate

Based on 1 wins across all categories. Small sample.

37.5% below estimateindicative · n=1compared within all comparable wins

Largest published awards i	Authority	Awarded	Term	Published value
Lot 11 - Stand-Alone (Benchtop) Water Purification Systems	Regional Business Services Organisation Procurement and Logistics Service	—	—	£209,156 †
CSP26503 - Chemicals	UK Research & Innovation (UKRI)	—	—	£48,800 †
UKRI-5927 BAS - Millipore System Replacement	UK Research & Innovation (UKRI)	—	2 mo	£48,402 †
GSS25179 - Water Purification System	UK Research & Innovation (UKRI)	—	1 mo	£24,814 †
GSS25292 - Lab Services and Consumables	UK Research & Innovation (UKRI)	—	1 yrs	£16,006 † ≈ £16k/yr

Where their buyers are
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ITL1 region of the buyer office · known for 57 of 57 awarded procedures · each procedure counts once

South West England32 procedures · 56%

Greater London10 procedures · 18%

Scotland5 procedures · 9%

North East England3 procedures · 5%

South East England2 procedures · 4%

Northern Ireland2 procedures · 4%

North West England1 procedure · 2%

West Midlands1 procedure · 2%

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 classified58%(30 awards)
30 of 52 awards are Type not classified (58%).
Central government19%(10 awards)
10 of 52 awards are Central government (19%).
Education17%(9 awards)
9 of 52 awards are Education (17%).
Other public body4%(2 awards)
2 of 52 awards are Other public body (4%).
NHS & health2%(1 award)
1 of 52 awards is NHS & health (2%).

Authority	Procedures	Share	Award records	Last activity
UK Shared Business Services Ltdframework/DPS on 5	19	33.3%	36	20 Aug 2024
UK Research and Innovationframework/DPS on 1	12	21.1%	12	16 Sept 2026
APUC Ltdframework/DPS on 2	2	3.5%	7	27 Mar 2026
University of Readingframework/DPS on 2	2	3.5%	3	1 Jul 2021
CENTRE FOR PROCESS INNOVATION LIMITED	2	3.5%	2	9 Feb 2023
University Of Edinburgh	2	3.5%	2	1 Nov 2020
Defra Network eTendering Portalframework/DPS on 1	2	3.5%	2	7 Jul 2022
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care acting as part of the Crown through UK Health Security Agency	2	3.5%	2	21 Feb 2023

Share = of the 57 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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61 of 85 awards carry an end date, 17 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast

Contract	Ends	Published value
Multiplex Biomarker Discover Equipment	9 Jan 2027	£128,634
Sourcing	19 Jan 2027 estimated	£7,500,000
Ongoing Supply of Lab Consumables	8 Feb 2027	£7,500,000
GSS23564: UK Research and Innovation - Oligonucleotide Synthesis and Nucleic Acid Sequencing Services Framework	21 Feb 2027	Not published
RE21694 - Water Purifier -BEIS -Mini Competition	31 Mar 2027	£24,103
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 6 Chemicals	22 Jun 2027 estimated	£1,000,000 ceiling

Soonest 10 of 19.

Recent awards

Latest 30 of 52 award records naming this supplier

Contracts Finder adds 33 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
CSP26835 - Consumables for Three Merck Millipore systems	UK Research & Innovation (UKRI)	Not published	£12,706 † from the contract notice
Milli-Q IX 700Insightec MRgFUS 5 DI/RO Water System -	Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust	Not published	£12,001 † from the contract notice
CSP26630 - Service contract	UK Research & Innovation (UKRI)	Not published	£11,635 † from the contract notice
Filtration Plastics	APUC Ltd	Not published	£3,750,000 † framework ceiling · 1 of 6 appointed suppliers
Molecular Biology and Tissue Culture Plastics	APUC Ltd	Not published	£3,750,000 † framework ceiling · 1 of 6 appointed suppliers
Solvents, Alcohol and Acids	APUC Ltd	Not published	£3,750,000 † framework ceiling · 1 of 6 appointed suppliers
Fine Chemicals and Deuterated Solvents	APUC Ltd	Not published	£3,750,000 † framework ceiling · 1 of 6 appointed suppliers
Bio-Chemicals	APUC Ltd	Not published	£3,750,000 † framework ceiling · 1 of 6 appointed suppliers
Inorganic Chemicals and Salts	APUC Ltd	Not published	£3,750,000 † framework ceiling · 1 of 6 appointed suppliers
CSP26503 - Chemicals	UK Research & Innovation (UKRI)	Not published	£48,800 † from the contract notice

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 44 of 85 awards, estimated from the published duration on 17 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.