Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses) — tender awards
Public-procurement contracts awarded under CPV category 38 (Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)) in the last 12 months, in aggregate — by council, competition type and threshold level. Individual awards are on the filtered search and browse page.
Supplier identity is never aggregated on this page — a winning bidder's name is often a person's name, not a company's, so it follows the same registered-access rule as the browse page's supplier search.
Last 12 months
Since October 2025: 121 awards worth €39,859,871 combined.
Framework agreements can dominate a year's total: A large share of awarded value comes from framework agreements, whose published value is often the framework's ceiling — the maximum that can be drawn down over its full, often multi-year, lifetime — rather than money spent in the year it was awarded. Checked directly against real data: a single council's own largest year can be dominated by framework agreements alone. A single large framework can make one year look far larger than its neighbours without that reflecting actual annual spend.
Top councils by value
| Council | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Fingal County Council | €3,000,000 | 1 |
| Limerick City And County Council | €111,805 | 1 |
| Wexford County Council | €80,000 | 1 |
| Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council | €62,080 | 1 |
| Donegal County Council | €46,770 | 2 |
| Cavan County Council | €33,240 | 1 |
Based on the 6% of Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses) awards with a single council identified — the rest are not attributed to one council.
Competition type
| Competition type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Bespoke | €28,758,048 | 105 |
| Framework | €10,947,331 | 12 |
| Simplified | €99,653 | 3 |
| DPS Tender | €54,839 | 1 |
Threshold level
| Threshold level | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| OJEU | €32,742,994 | 45 |
| National | €6,962,385 | 72 |
| Direct Invite | €99,653 | 3 |
| Not recorded | €54,839 | 1 |
Contract type
| Contract type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Supplies | €32,234,863 | 105 |
| Services | €7,430,416 | 12 |
| Work Related Services | €94,939 | 1 |
| Not recorded | €99,653 | 3 |
Single-bid contracts
In the last 12 months, 47 of 116 contracts with a recorded bid count (41%) had only one bid. See these contracts → The single-bid-rate ranking shows a different figure for the same measure — it uses a fixed calendar year, not the trailing 12 months shown here.
Figures published by Office of Government Procurement (eTenders contract award notices). Accessed 2026-10-18.