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Awarded · ResultStage · award

NPL Management Limited

Supply of Membrane Hydrophones, Calibration Services, and Associated Equipment for Acoustic Measurement

ConstructionCPV 38000000
Value£40,028
Awarded
Published11 Dec 2025
RegionNationwide

£40,028 — awarded.

Outcome — awarded
Precision Acoustics Ltd

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Who to contact
etenders@npl.co.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£40ktotal contract value
median £70k
this tender£0£588k

This sits in the lower-middle of the Laboratory & Precision Equipment band — a mid-scale opportunity. Based on 9,869 valued Laboratory & Precision Equipment tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The contract covers the supply of specialized acoustic measurement equipment and calibration services, including: Goods: UT1604 Membrane Hydrophones (3 units, 16 micron, 0.4 mm diameter) Hydrophone Preamplifiers (3 units, with 2 m cable) Budget Hydrophone Mount (1 unit) DC Coupler with Power Supply (1 unit) Signal Amplifier for UC/UT Membrane Hydrophones (1 unit) Services: In-house calibration (1-30 MHz in 1 MHz increments), accredited to ISO/IEC 17025 by UKAS, following Clause 12 of 62127-2:2007+A2:2017 for Type II measurements.

Calibration included for hydrophones and amplifier.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

The contract covers the supply of specialized

The contract covers the supply of specialized acoustic measurement equipment and calibration services, including:.

02

DC Coupler with Power Supply (1 unit)

DC Coupler with Power Supply (1 unit).

Sentences from the notice that state an obligation, surfaced automatically and shown in the order they appear. Not an exhaustive list — always confirm against the tender documents.

The gates

What this notice demands of you

2 named in obligation language, 0 mentioned. Each one is quoted from the notice.

ISO 17025 (testing & calibration laboratories)says mustStandards you certify to
In-house calibration (1-30 MHz in 1 MHz increments), accredited to ISO/IEC 17025 by UKAS, following Clause 12 of 62127-2:2007+A2:2017 for Type II measurements.
UKAS accreditationsays mustCertification & assessment schemes
In-house calibration (1-30 MHz in 1 MHz increments), accredited to ISO/IEC 17025 by UKAS, following Clause 12 of 62127-2:2007+A2:2017 for Type II measurements.

Matched against the notice text, so this is a floor — the tender pack will demand things the notice never mentions. “Says must” means the quoted sentence itself used obligation language; anything ambiguous is left as a mention.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05f42b
Stage
award · Awarded
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
082149-2025
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