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: 172 awards worth £223,159,656 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Birmingham | £479,675 | 1 |
| Carmarthenshire | £381,200 | 1 |
Based on the 1% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| open | £96,558,679 | 70 |
| selective | £81,797,004 | 8 |
| direct | £44,803,973 | 94 |
Threshold level
| Threshold level | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Open procedure | £91,817,352 | 60 |
| Competitive flexible procedure | £84,450,449 | 11 |
| Direct award | £43,474,426 | 73 |
| Award under framework | £1,464,617 | 1 |
| Below threshold - without competition | £1,329,547 | 21 |
| Below threshold - open competition | £546,906 | 5 |
| Below threshold - award under framework | £76,359 | 1 |
Contract type
| Contract type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| goods | £203,737,251 | 156 |
| services | £19,304,405 | 14 |
| works | £118,000 | 2 |
Single-bid contracts
In the last 12 months, 13 of 74 contracts with a recorded bid count (18%) 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 UK Find a Tender Service and Contracts Finder (OCDS award notices). Accessed 2026-10-18.