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Brief your market

Who could bid the next time Cardiff University tenders for laboratory & precision equipment — from published contract awards, not directories. A tender that reaches more proven suppliers gets more bids; more bids is the evidence of value for money.

Business Services (58)Environment & Waste (42)Construction (32)Medical Equipment & Pharmaceuticals (19)Software & IT Systems (19)Laboratory & Precision Equipment (18)Repair & Maintenance (18)Engineering & Architecture (10)

Ring 1

Proven with you

Suppliers already holding a published Cardiff University award in this category.

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Ring 2

Proven with buyers like you

Suppliers who have won this category with other Education buyers — ranked by how many different buyers they've won with. This is the shortlist that widens your field.

  • thermo fisher scientific59 awards · 26 buyers · latest Dec 2025

    Purchase of a GC triple quadrupole mass spectrometer and GC MS instrument

  • Carl Zeiss Ltd51 awards · 19 buyers · latest May 2023

    GB-Egham: RHUL-23058 Super-Resolution Confocal Microscope

  • Bruker UK limited42 awards · 17 buyers · latest May 2026

    Purchase of High Throughput Powder X-Ray Diffractometer

  • Waters Limited37 awards · 16 buyers · latest Feb 2026

    Ultra-Sensitive Triple Quadrupole LC-MS/MS System for Advanced Biomedical Training and Research

  • Bruker Uk Ltd32 awards · 15 buyers · latest Jun 2025

    3D Stylus Profiler

  • Agilent Technologies LDA UK Ltd30 awards · 15 buyers · latest Mar 2024

    Provision of Gas Chromatographers and Mass Spectrometers

  • Horiba Uk Limited16 awards · 15 buyers · latest Sept 2025

    X-ray fluorescence microimaging instrument - AWARD

  • Agilent Technologies LDA UK Limited29 awards · 14 buyers · latest Sept 2023

    Procurement of a Flow Cytometer

  • Shimadzu UK Limited16 awards · 13 buyers · latest Jul 2024

    Laboratory Equipment

  • Waters ltd20 awards · 12 buyers · latest Apr 2024

    2024 Mass Spectrometry instrument - AWARD

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Ring 3

Proven in the field

Suppliers winning this category anywhere in UK public procurement (excluding those already listed above).

  • Leica Microsystems (UK) Limited34 awards · 24 buyers · latest Mar 2026

    Pathology Microscopes x3

  • Leica Microsystems (UK) Ltd48 awards · 20 buyers · latest Oct 2024

    UKRI- GSS24805 Vibratome Competitive quotation

  • VWR International Ltd48 awards · 20 buyers · latest Jan 2026

    C32394 - Supply of x 2 CO2 Incubators for APHA

  • Vaisala Ltd27 awards · 20 buyers · latest Aug 2025

    Window Blower

  • Life Technologies Ltd35 awards · 19 buyers · latest Mar 2025

    LUV01335 For the supply of arrays and/or the DNA extraction, quality control, randomized plating and genotyping of samples

  • Scientific Laboratory Supplies Ltd56 awards · 18 buyers · latest Sept 2025

    Auto Slide Stainer

  • Wolf Laboratories Limited39 awards · 18 buyers · latest May 2026

    Contract C34214 - Supply of x2 Centrifuges for APHA

  • Fisher Scientific UK Ltd 29 awards · 17 buyers · latest Jun 2026

    EA Purchase of Decacell Cuvettes and TON Enzymatic Reagents

  • Anton Paar ltd25 awards · 17 buyers · latest Aug 2023

    GB-Cambridge: UKRI-2894 BAS Microviscometer

  • Fei UK Ltd29 awards · 16 buyers · latest Nov 2024

    200mm Capable High Resolution Imaging Equipment

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The full list — for members

All 1,874 Education suppliers in ring 2 (capped at 400, widest-proven first), copyable as a spreadsheet — so every proven supplier can hear about your next tender, not just the usual three.

Sources: published UK contract award notices in the rfp.quest corpus. “Proven” means a citable award — nothing here is inferred or scraped from directories. Award values are not summed because framework ceilings would inflate them.