Laboratory, optical & precision equipment tenders in Northern Ireland

We track 96 awarded laboratory, optical & precision equipment contracts (CPV 38*) in Northern Ireland. 1 of them have a published end date between 9 Jan 2027 and 9 Apr 2028. The median published award value is £300k, and half of awards fall between £158k and £665k (85 awards with a value). 89 award notices in this category did not publish an end date.

Ending in 3-18 months1

Open tenders2

Median award£300k

Contracts tracked96

Contracts ending soonest (1 of 1)

Contract	Buyer	Incumbent supplier(s)	Value	Ends
Contract for the Supply, delivery, commission, installation, consumables, & maintenance of a Femtosecond Laser Workstation Find a Tender · CPV 38636100	Queen's University Belfast	Oxford Lasers Ltd	£712k	20 Aug 2027 re-tender likely from ~20 Feb 2027

See all 1 in the renewal radar

Open tenders (2 of 2)

Opportunity	Buyer	Value	Deadline	Region
Provision of replacement Industrial & Commercial Customer Metering Equipment in connection with a Gas Distribution Network '27 Find a Tender · CPV 38420000	Phoenix Energy Group Ltd	£400k	15 Oct 2026, 12:00 UK time expression of interest	Northern Ireland
DOJ - FSNI - Supply, Delivery and Support of a Benchtop Glass Refractive Index Determination System Find a Tender · CPV 38000000	Forensic Science Northern Ireland	£120k	16 Oct 2026, 15:00 UK time	Northern Ireland

All open tenders in this category

Top buyers

Buyer	Contracts	Value
Queen's University Belfast	16	£12.0m
NI Water and its subsidiaries	12	£5.8m
Forensic Science Northern Ireland	10	£1.4m
Procurement and Logistics Service	5	£3.7m
Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute	5	£979k
Business Services Organisation, Procurement and Logistics Service on behalf of Belfast Health and Social Care Trust	4	£4.9m
BELFAST HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE TRUST	4	£807k
Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute NI	3	£3.3m
South Eastern H&SC Trust	3	£1.2m
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs	3	£782k

Most frequent incumbents

Supplier	Contracts	Value
Information withheld for security reasons	8	£1.5m
Agilent Technologies Lda UK Limited	5	£1.4m
THERMO ELECTRON MANUFACTURING LTD	5	£126k
AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES IRELAND LIMITED	4	£1.1m
Withheld for security reasons	4	£369k
Waters Limited	3	£1.5m
IBG IMMUCOR LIMITED	3	£737k
V.H. BIO LTD	2	£3.7m
PREMIER SCIENTIFIC LTD	2	£2.0m
Trafalgar Scientific Ltd	2	£2.0m

Sub-categories

Instruments for checking physical characteristics (1121)Checking and testing apparatus (685)Optical instruments (598)Measuring instruments (267)Miscellaneous evaluation or testing instruments (239)Geological and geophysical instruments (162)Navigational and meteorological instruments (146)Industrial process control equipment and remote-control equipment (55)Time registers and the like; parking meters (54)

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Data from Find a Tender and Contracts Finder; updated every 2 hours. Where a notice doesn't publish a contract end date we show "end date not published" - we never guess.