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Lab Equipment (General)

London Universities Purchasing Consortium

Estimated Value

Up to £200,000,000

Deadline

Not specified

Published

30 September 2025

Type

goods

GBopenCPV: 38000000
CategoryLab & precision equipment

Overview

LUPC is tendering to establish a multi-supplier framework agreement for the supply of general laboratory equipment. The requirement is covered through 9 lots of specific equipment types, and an additional One Stop Shop lot, for the provision of requirements under multiple lots under a single transaction.

Lot 1, Centrifuges includes: Evaporator, Centrifugal evaporator, microcentrifuge refrigerated, microcentrifuge non refrigerated, low speed refrigerated, low speed non – refrigerated, medium speed refrigerated, medium speed non- refrigerated, high speed non-refrigerated, high speed Refrigerated, Analytica ultra non – refrigerated. Lot 2, Environmental Control: Circulators (cooled), Circulators (heated), Dry Block Heaters, Drying Cabinet, Freeze Dryer, Furnaces, Heating Mantles, Hotplates, Hybridisation Ovens, Incubator, Incubator Shaking, sub-ambient Incubator Shaking, above ambient, Incubator Standard, Incubator Sub-Ambient, Laboratory Ovens, Laboratory Ovens (Vacuum), Plasma Thawer, Shakers (benchtop), Water Baths.

Lot 3, Safety: Small Autoclaves - Bench Top, Floor-Standing Autoclave - Front Loader, Floor-Standing Autoclave - Top Loader, Glass washing, Fume Cupboard (non - ducted), Fume Cupboard (ducted), Safety Cabinet Class 1, Safety Cabinet Class 2, Safety Cabinet Class 3, Laminar Flow Cabinets. Lot 4, Measurement: Laboratory Balances, Chart Recorders, Chloride Meters, Colony Counters, Colorimeters, Conductivity Meters, Dissolved Oxygen Meters, Flame Photometers, Fluorimeters, Melting Point Apparatus,pH Meters, Spectrophotometer (UV & Vis), Thermo hygrometers, Viscometer, Combustion Elemental Analyser, Nitric Oxide Analyser, Micro Gas Analysers, Total Organic Halides (TOX)/ Adsorbable Organic Halides (AOX), Mercury Analysers, Analyser Alkalinity System, Potentiometric Titration, Coulometric and Volumetric Titrator Karl Fischer.

Lots (1)

  • Lot 9Liquid Handling Robotics and Laboratory Automation Systems: Liquid Handling Robotics, Laboratory Automation Systems

Additional details

Lot 5, Environmental Storage Fridge and Freezers: Environmental monitoring systems, Laboratory Refrigerator +4oC, Freezers -20oC: upright, Freezers -20oC: chest, Freezers -35oC upright, Freezers -35oC upright chest, Ultra Low Temperature Freezer -80oc upright, Ultra Low Temperature Freezer -80oc chest, Rapid Plasma Freezers, Laboratory Refrigerator +4oC low energy, Freezers -20oC: low energy upright, Freezers -20oC: low energy chest, Freezers -35oC low energy upright, Freezers -35oC low energy chest, Ultra Low Temperature Freezer -80oc low energy upright, Ultra Low Temperature Freezer -80oc low energy chest. Lot 6, Environmental Storage Other: Cryogenic Conservation Vessels, Cryostats, Ice Maker, Liquid Nitrogen Dewars, Cryostorage Freezer System-150°c, chest.

Lot 7, General (Miscellaneous): Heat Sealers, Inverted Microscopes, Laboratory Benches & Chairs, Mixers (vortex), Pulveriser, Pumps, peristaltic, Pumps, vacuum, Rotary Evaporators, Sonicator, Standard Microscopes, Stereo Microscopes, Stirrers, O2 gas monitor portable, O2 gas monitor wall mounted, O2 gas monitor clip, CO2 gas monitor portable, CO2 gas monitor wall mounted, CO2 gas monitor clip. Lot 8, Water Purification Equipment for Laboratories: Type 1 (for ISO Grade 1 water), Type 2 (for ISO Grade 2 water) and Type 3 1 (for ISO Grade 3 water) water purification systems.

Lot 10, 0ne Stop Shop. To select suppliers who can supply a single source for all equipment (and CPV codes) defined in lot 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9, above. In order to be eligible to bid for this lot, bidders whill have to provide lots 2, 7 and at least three other lots

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Award Details

Camlab

£200,000,000

Wolf Laboratories Limited

£200,000,000

VWR International

£200,000,000

Scientific Laboratory Supplies Ltd.

£200,000,000

SciQuip Ltd.

£200,000,000

Appleton Woods Ltd.

£200,000,000

Be Scientific Ltd.

£200,000,000

Wolf Laboratories

£200,000,000

VWR International Ltd

£200,000,000

Camlab Limited

£200,000,000

Scientific Laboratory Supplies Ltd

£200,000,000

SciQuip Ltd

£200,000,000

Appleton Woods Ltd

£200,000,000

Fisher Scientific UK Ltd

£200,000,000

Wolf Laboratories Ltd.

£200,000,000

Camlab Ltd.

£200,000,000

Fisher Scientific UK Ltd.

£200,000,000

VWR International Ltd.

£200,000,000

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London Universities Purchasing Consortium
Typepublic body
RegionAny region
Total tenders14
Total spend£556,900,000
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Published

30 September 2025

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