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Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service) verified 3 hours ago Contract notice

Multi Lot - Supply and Installation of Materials Testing Machines (Tensile and Flexural)

Open United Kingdom Laboratory & precision equipment

Buyer University of South Wales

33 days left

Key facts

Closes
Estimated value
€472,266
converted from GBP
Procedure
Open procedure
  1. Published
  2. Today
  3. Deadline open for 35 days
  4. Awarded pending

Bidding window

34 days from publication to deadline

Usual length

Notices of this kind (United Kingdom, open procedure, above the EU threshold) give a median of 30 days, half of them between 26 and 36 days, based on 1,805 notices of the last two years.

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Description

The Contracting Authority wishes to appoint one supplier for each Lot to supply, deliver, install, commission and support: Lot 1 - a Universal Testing Machine; and Lot 2 - a Flexural Testing Machine, for the Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Science. Tenderers may tender for one or both Lots.

Bid or no-bid?

Six questions before you commit a team. Under each one, what the register holds on it. The answers are yours.

  1. In your favour:

    Do we meet every eligibility criterion?

    Open procedure: any interested supplier may submit a bid.

  2. Your call:

    Can we deliver this with the team we have?

    Estimated at €472,266.

  3. Your call:

    Do we have two comparable references?

    Comparable work is in Laboratory & precision equipment.

  4. In your favour:

    Is the deadline realistic for a proper offer?

    33 days left, 24 of them working days.

  5. Your call:

    Is there a margin at the likely winning price?

    In this country this kind of contract is usually awarded for between €32,728 and €172,557.

  6. Your call:

    Do we know this buyer?

    The register holds nothing on this. The official documents will.

Can I bid?

  • Open procedure: any interested supplier may submit a bid.
  • Documents in English.

Official source

Source: Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service)

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Last verified against Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service) 3 hours ago

Documents on Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service) (English)

What this market pays

The buyer has too few awards of its own in this sector, so this is the range of the last 122 awards for Laboratory & precision equipment in United Kingdom.

This notice
€472,266
Median award
€79,237
Middle half of past awards
€32,728 to €172,557

The estimate is larger than three in four past awards.

Award values as published by the official sources. Use them as a guide, not a rule: scope, lots and duration differ between contracts.

University of South Wales

United Kingdom

Who wins its contracts

Many suppliers
different companies won its awards
19
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
24%

Based on 21 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners.

This buyer has no award history in this sector yet. Usual winners, Laboratory & precision equipment - United Kingdom

Company Wins Total awarded Last win
VWR International Ltd 5 €212,216 Sep 2026
Carl Zeiss Ltd 4 €449,003 Jul 2026
LIFE TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED 4 €283,546 Oct 2026
SCIENTIFIC LABORATORY SUPPLIES LIMITED 4 €125,097 Jul 2026
Thermo Fisher Scientific 3 €1.4M Sep 2026

Based on 142 awards with a linked company profile over the last 2 years.

2 open tenders right now

Market context

Larger than 65% of the open notices in Laboratory & precision equipment across Europe.

open now in Laboratory & precision equipment
2,387
median open notice
€228,718

Who wins in this market

Many suppliers

United Kingdom · Laboratory & precision equipment

different companies won awards here
107
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
9%
buyers awarded contracts here
57

Based on 142 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners.

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