Brief your market

Who could bid the next time Aston University tenders for laboratory & precision equipment — from published contract awards, not directories. A tender that reaches more proven suppliers gets more bids; more bids is the evidence of value for money.

Laboratory & Precision Equipment (87)Engineering & Architecture (38)Business Services (29)Education & Training (25)Software & IT Systems (19)Construction (18)Industrial Machinery (15)IT Services (14)

Ring 1

Proven with you

Suppliers already holding a published Aston University award in this category.

Waters Limited3 awards · latest Feb 2026
Ultra-Sensitive Triple Quadrupole LC-MS/MS System for Advanced Biomedical Training and Research
Keysight Technologies UK Ltd3 awards · latest Oct 2023
731 - Real-Time Four-Channel Oscilloscope Supply & Installation
Agilent Technologies LDA UK Ltd3 awards · latest Feb 2021
567 - Cell Analyser
Elliot Scientific Ltd2 awards · latest Apr 2024
923
Cerca Magnetics Limited2 awards · latest Dec 2023
(VEAT Notice) - OPM-Optimised Bespoke Magnetically Shielded Room
Mag4Health2 awards · latest Dec 2023
(VEAT Notice) - Helium-4 Optically Pumped Magnetometer (OPM-MEG) Supply, Installation, Service and Maintenance
Scienion (UK) Limited2 awards · latest Oct 2023
3D Bioprinter Supply and Installation
COHERENT EUROPE BV2 awards · latest Sept 2023
734 - Femtosecond Laser
Agilent Technologies LDA UK Limited2 awards · latest Sept 2023
Handheld FTIR Spectrometer
Micrometrics Ltd2 awards · latest Aug 2023
753 - Pilot Scale Fluidised Bed Pressurised Gasifier

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Ring 2

Proven with buyers like you

Suppliers who have won this category with other Education buyers — ranked by how many different buyers they've won with. This is the shortlist that widens your field.

thermo fisher scientific58 awards · 25 buyers · latest Dec 2025
Purchase of a GC triple quadrupole mass spectrometer and GC MS instrument
Carl Zeiss Ltd50 awards · 18 buyers · latest May 2023
GB-Egham: RHUL-23058 Super-Resolution Confocal Microscope
Bruker Uk Ltd32 awards · 15 buyers · latest Jun 2025
3D Stylus Profiler
Bruker UK limited37 awards · 14 buyers · latest May 2026
Purchase of High Throughput Powder X-Ray Diffractometer
Agilent Technologies LDA UK Ltd26 awards · 14 buyers · latest Mar 2024
Provision of Gas Chromatographers and Mass Spectrometers
Horiba Uk Limited15 awards · 14 buyers · latest Sept 2025
X-ray fluorescence microimaging instrument - AWARD
Waters Limited30 awards · 13 buyers · latest Mar 2025
Service contract for mass spectrometry instrument
Agilent Technologies LDA UK Limited26 awards · 13 buyers · latest Sept 2023
Procurement of a Flow Cytometer
Fei UK Ltd21 awards · 11 buyers · latest Nov 2024
200mm Capable High Resolution Imaging Equipment
Waters ltd19 awards · 11 buyers · latest Apr 2024
2024 Mass Spectrometry instrument - AWARD

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Ring 3

Proven in the field

Suppliers winning this category anywhere in UK public procurement (excluding those already listed above).

Leica Microsystems (UK) Limited33 awards · 24 buyers · latest Mar 2026
Pathology Microscopes x3
Life Technologies Limited43 awards · 22 buyers · latest Feb 2026
Purchase of EVOS M5000 imaging microscopes and accessories
VWR International Ltd47 awards · 20 buyers · latest Jan 2026
C32394 - Supply of x 2 CO2 Incubators for APHA
Vaisala Ltd26 awards · 20 buyers · latest Aug 2025
Window Blower
Leica Microsystems (UK) Ltd44 awards · 18 buyers · latest Oct 2024
UKRI- GSS24805 Vibratome Competitive quotation
Shimadzu UK Limited22 awards · 17 buyers · latest Jul 2024
Laboratory Equipment
Scientific Laboratory Supplies Ltd54 awards · 16 buyers · latest Sept 2025
Auto Slide Stainer
Wolf Laboratories Limited37 awards · 16 buyers · latest May 2026
Contract C34214 - Supply of x2 Centrifuges for APHA
Life Technologies Ltd31 awards · 16 buyers · latest Mar 2025
LUV01335 For the supply of arrays and/or the DNA extraction, quality control, randomized plating and genotyping of samples
Illumina Cambridge Ltd26 awards · 15 buyers · latest Nov 2025
UKRI-5373 MRC LMS Sequencing System

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The full list — for members

All 1,757 Education suppliers in ring 2 (capped at 400, widest-proven first), copyable as a spreadsheet — so every proven supplier can hear about your next tender, not just the usual three.

Sources: published UK contract award notices in the rfp.quest corpus. “Proven” means a citable award — nothing here is inferred or scraped from directories. Award values are not summed because framework ceilings would inflate them.