Spend profile

Award value by month — rolling 24 months. Line shows 12-month moving average.

£0
12 m spend
£1.3m
Prior 12 m
-100%
YoY change
£100k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
National Physical Laboratory — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£275k£550k£825k£1.1mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

Forward flow — planned notices through to completed awards in the last 90 days.

Planned

31

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

0

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

0

£0

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

How this buyer procures — by procedure, instrument, and publication source.

Contract type

Unspecified322 · £30.6m
services18 · £22.9m
goods109 · £17.8m
works4 · £15.6m

Instrument type

contract381 · £79.9m
call off72 · £6.9m
Source:Contracts Finder: 322Find a Tender: 131

Awarded contracts · 5 live

All contracts with a published award notice where National Physical Laboratory is the contracting authority.

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Top suppliers · by total award value

Ranked by cumulative awarded value. YoY = last 12 months vs prior 12 months.

1
CM
1 contract · 01 Apr
£5.0m
2
DL
2 contracts · 03 Nov30 Nov
£4.0m
3
FU
1 contract · 22 Feb
£3.3m
4
MS
7 contracts · 22 Dec09 Jan
£2.9mest.
5
SM
1 contract · 22 Jan
£2.0m
6
KT
13 contracts · 23 Oct15 Jan
£1.1m
7
FC
1 contract · SME · 23 Feb
£959k
9133
···
125 other suppliers
long tail · 40 SMEs
£15.9m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Laboratory, scientific
131 contracts
£31.1m
38%
Other
75 contracts
£15.1m
18%
Construction works
2 contracts
£10.6m
13%
Postal, telecoms
1 contract
£7.0m
8%
Repair & maintenance
2 contracts
£7.0m
8%
IT services, software
5 contracts
£5.6m
7%
Government administration
1 contract
£5.5m
7%
Office equipment, IT
1 contract
£1.0m
1%

Commercial & procurement leadership

Who signs off contracts, owns frameworks and runs SME engagement.

Coming Q3 2026

Curated leadership roster

Chief commercial officer, framework owners, SME lead and clinical sign-offs per buyer. Top-50 contracting authorities first, rolling out by sector.

Modifications · 0 in 90 d

Variations logged under Procurement Act 2023 s.74. Above-tolerance modifications attract a flag.

Total mods
0
Above tolerance
0
Total value
£0
Novations
0

No modifications recorded in the last 90 days.

National Physical Laboratory has not filed a modification notice in the selected window.

Compliance & transparency

FOIA performance, statutory disclosures & prompt payment.

Coming Q4 2026

FOIA & prompt-payment ingestion

Notice timeliness and modification flags are derivable today. FOIA refusal rate, prompt-payment %, KPI reporting and net-zero plans need new data sources — work scoped, ingestion next quarter.

SME & social value

Performance against Cabinet Office targets & PPN 06/20.

34%
SME supplier share
target 33%
68
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
133
Distinct suppliers

Peer benchmark

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News mentions

Major UK press & trade publications.

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Statutory & accountability

Legal status, identifiers & accountable officers.

Identifiers & contact

Type
Contracting authority
Region
UK
Contact
Gary Phillips
Email
gary.phillips@npl.co.uk

Board & accountable officers

Coming Q3 2026

Accountable officer + board roster

Pulled from gov.uk for arm's-length bodies and from Companies House for company-form buyers — chair, CEO, SRO and sign-off authority per contract band.

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