5 live Laboratory Equipment tenders across the UK. Laboratory, testing and scientific equipment and services.
Updated 1 October 2026
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Analytical and scientific instruments, laboratory consumables and reagents, pathology and diagnostic equipment, laboratory information management systems, equipment servicing and calibration, and laboratory design and fit-out.
CPV codes: CPV 38000 for laboratory, optical and precision equipment, 33100 for medical devices where diagnostic, 38430 for detection and analysis apparatus, and 71900 for laboratory services.
Universities and research institutes are the largest buyers by volume, funded through research grants and capital programmes. NHS pathology networks buy diagnostic platforms and reagents, usually as consolidated multi-trust procurements. Environmental and public health agencies, water companies and testing houses also procure regularly.
Right now the most active buyers publishing in this category on Daily Tenders are Procurement for Housing Ltd (t/a PfH Scotland), Chemonics International, Inc., Education Procurement Service (EPS) and YPO.
ISO 9001 and, for calibration and testing, ISO 17025 accreditation. Medical diagnostics require UKCA or CE marking and ISO 13485. Buyers commonly require documented service response times, engineer qualifications and long-term consumable and spare-part availability.
Research equipment often runs through higher education purchasing consortia frameworks. NHS pathology has consolidated into regional networks, which means fewer, larger procurements with longer terms — reagent rental and managed service models, where the instrument is provided free against a consumables commitment, are now standard.
The supplier provides the analyser at no capital cost and recovers it through a committed consumables price over the term. It dominates NHS pathology procurement because it shifts capital cost into revenue, and it means the consumables price is where the competition actually happens.
Very. For diagnostic and research-critical equipment, guaranteed response and uptime commitments are frequently scored as heavily as price, and are often backed by service credits.
Published contract award notices from the last two years: who won, for how much, and the official notice. Across 41 awards with a published value, the typical contract was £65k, and half fell between £22k and £185k.
81 awards for laboratory equipment in the last two years. Subscribers see what comparable contracts went for on every tender they open.
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