At a glance · for buyers and watchdogs
Appleton Woods Ltd has won £69.7m across 23 public-sector buyers, with 16 live contracts. No active Companies House risk flags.
Why: top buyer Public Health England at 68% · 100% in Laboratory equipment · 0 active risk flags · 0 modifications.
ESG & policies vault · 0/5
Key governance & sustainability policies. Published documents link out; missing ones are greyed.
Capabilities
What this supplier does, where they sit, who they sell to.
- National Microbiology Framework - Lot 1: Diagnostic Goods and Services
- Framework of suppliers to provide lab equipment and associated after sales services
- UK SBS RE21225 Laboratory Consumables Framework
Extracted automatically from appletonwoods.co.uk on Jul 2026. Not independently verified — treat as the supplier’s own marketing claims.
Case studies
Delivery stories the supplier has published, with sector and outcome.
No case studies yet
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Buyer references
Named public-sector contacts who have agreed to act as a reference.
No buyer references yet
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Accreditations & memberships
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No accreditations recorded
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KPI performance
Delivery, budget and satisfaction scores reported quarterly by buyers.
No verified KPI scores yet
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Contracts · 16 live · 25 historic
Pulled from Contracts Finder & Find a Tender. Most recent first.
| Title | Buyer | CPV | Awarded | Value | Term | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Secretary of State for Health and Social Care acting as part of the Crown through UK Health Security Agency | — | 20 Feb 2026 | £165k | 7 mo | pending | |
| London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine | — | 01 Sept 2025 | £3.0m | 8 yrs | pending | |
| ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH AGENCY | 38000000 | 23 Jul 2025 | £30k | 3 yrs | Live | |
| NHS Blood & Transplant (NHSBT) | 33100000 | 01 Jan 2025 | £54k | 4 yrs | Live | |
| ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH AGENCY | 38000000 | 11 Nov 2024 | £28k | 5 mo | Closed | |
| UNIVERSITY OF DERBY | 38000000 | 20 Sept 2024 | £42k | 9 mo | Closed | |
| University Of The West Of England | 38510000 | 12 Apr 2024 | £153k | — | Closed | |
| UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA | 38510000 | 31 Jan 2024 | — | 15 mo | Closed | |
| UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED | 38000000 | 19 Dec 2023 | £26k | 3 mo | Closed | |
| UKHSA | 33141000 | 01 Aug 2023 | £187k | 12 mo | Closed |
Top buyers · 23 buyers · top 3 = 85%
Share of awarded value. Concentration fires above 40% for any single buyer.
Category mix
CPV-division share of last-12m awarded value. Single-category exposure: 100%.
Geography
Distribution of awarded value by buyer region.
Peers
Suppliers with overlapping CPVs & buyers (last 24m). Appleton Woods Ltd highlighted.
| Supplier | SME? | Awarded · 24m | Contracts |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yes | £3.3m | 1 | |
AW Appleton Woods Ltd | No | £3.2m | — |
| No | £2.2m | 2 | |
| No | £2.1m | 4 | |
| Yes | £1.6m | 1 | |
| Yes | £1.6m | 7 |
Red flags · 0 active
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Compliance scorecard
Derived from Companies House filings — not a full supplier-assurance check.
Modifications
Variations to awarded contracts logged under Procurement Act 2023 s.74.
No modifications recorded
No published contract variations for this supplier. Modification notices appear here as they are issued under the Procurement Act 2023.
News mentions
UK trade press & nationals, matched to this supplier.
No news mentions found
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Companies House
Live sync — registered details, directors, PSC and SIC codes.
Registered details
- Company no.
- 00907224
- Status
- Active
- Type
- Private limited
- Incorporated
- 30 May 1967
- Reg. office
- New Lindon House Catesby Park, Kings Norton, Birmingham, B38 8SE
- SIC codes
- 46900
- Last accounts
- 31 Mar 2025
- Next accounts due
- 31 Dec 2026
Directors & PSC
- BROWN, Christopher Lindon — director
- KAUR, Natindarjit — directorAppointed 01 Apr 2022
- BROWN, Christopher Lindon — secretaryAppointed 11 Dec 1998
- Appleton Woods Group Limited — person with significant controlownership of shares 75 to 100 percent · voting rights 75 to 100 percent · right to appoint and remove directors
Financial
Filed accounts from Companies House.
No financial filings on record
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Org tree
Group structure and ownership.
Independent. No parent company or subsidiaries recorded at Companies House for this entity.
Social value
Commitments mapped to the Government Social Value Model themes.
No social-value commitments yet
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