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Every public tender is tagged with codes from the Common Procurement Vocabulary. Find the codes for what you sell, see how many open UK tenders use each one, and set your alerts to match. All 9,454 codes, with the official EU descriptions.
38000000-5 Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)
Division in division Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses). 18 open UK tenders use this code or one below it.
Open tenders under this code
- Procurement of Handheld 3D SLAM scanner with a backpack mount and software
Chemonics International, Inc. · From £1 · closes 5 Nov 2026
- Supply, Delivery, Installation and Commissioning of an Advanced Fluorescence Microscope System with Widefield, Confocal and Super-Resolution Imaging Capabilities
Heriot-Watt University · £600,000 · closes 16 Nov 2026
- Housing Sensors
Renfrewshire Council · closes 26 Nov 2026
- Purchase of Conductivity Temperature Depth (CTD) Instrument
Scottish Government · £150,000 · closes 30 Nov 2026
- Purchase & Installation of Echosounder System
Scottish Government · £150,000 · closes 30 Nov 2026
- PURCH3077 Provision of Narrow Linewidth Continuous-Wave Tunable Laser
University of Glasgow · closes 30 Nov 2026
- SPS-02361 Substance Screening & Related Services
Scottish Prison Service · closes 1 Dec 2026
- BLC0111 - Mobile Preliminary Roadside Drug Testing
BlueLight Commercial · £8,000,000 - £10,000,000 · closes 30 May 2027
- Supply of Wastewater Sample Systems
United Utilities Water Limited · closes 31 May 2027
- Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Solutions DPS
Crown Commercial Service · Up to £450,000,000 · closes 23 Feb 2029
Codes under 38000000
- 38100000-6Navigational and meteorological instruments1 open
- 38200000-7Geological and geophysical instruments1 open
- 38300000-8Measuring instruments2 open
- 38400000-9Instruments for checking physical characteristics4 open
- 38500000-0Checking and testing apparatus5 open
- 38600000-1Optical instruments2 open
- 38700000-2Time registers and the like; parking meters1 open
- 38800000-3Industrial process control equipment and remote-control equipment3 open
- 38900000-4Miscellaneous evaluation or testing instruments2 open
Reading a CPV code
A code has eight digits and a check digit after the dash: 45210000-2. The first two digits are the division (45, construction work), the third the group (452), the fourth the class (4521) and the fifth the category (45211). Codes ending in zeros sit higher up the tree. The check digit only guards against typing errors.
Browse live tenders by division on the CPV category pages, or read our guide to CPV codes.