RFP QuestBeta

Brief your market

Who could bid the next time Durham 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 (30)Business Services (22)IT Services (8)Education & Training (8)Radio, TV & Communications Equipment (8)Office & Computing Equipment (7)Electrical Machinery & Apparatus (7)Construction (6)

Ring 1

Proven with you

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

Showing 10 of 28.

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 scientific56 awards · 24 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

  • Agilent Technologies LDA UK Ltd29 awards · 15 buyers · latest Mar 2024

    Provision of Gas Chromatographers and Mass Spectrometers

  • Waters Limited33 awards · 14 buyers · latest Feb 2026

    Ultra-Sensitive Triple Quadrupole LC-MS/MS System for Advanced Biomedical Training and Research

  • Bruker Uk Ltd31 awards · 14 buyers · latest Jun 2025

    3D Stylus Profiler

  • Agilent Technologies LDA UK Limited28 awards · 14 buyers · latest Sept 2023

    Procurement of a Flow Cytometer

  • Horiba Uk Limited15 awards · 14 buyers · latest Sept 2025

    X-ray fluorescence microimaging instrument - AWARD

  • Bruker UK limited36 awards · 13 buyers · latest May 2026

    Purchase of High Throughput Powder X-Ray Diffractometer

  • Fei UK Ltd21 awards · 11 buyers · latest Nov 2024

    200mm Capable High Resolution Imaging Equipment

  • Leica Microsystems (UK) Limited16 awards · 11 buyers · latest Oct 2025

    APUC Lot 10 Servicing, Maintenance and Repairs - High End Equipment

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Ring 3

Proven in the field

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

  • Life Technologies Limited43 awards · 22 buyers · latest Feb 2026

    Purchase of EVOS M5000 imaging microscopes and accessories

  • Waters ltd36 awards · 22 buyers · latest Nov 2024

    GB-London: UKRI-4441 ACQUITY Premier Sample Manager - Fixed Loop with system installation

  • 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 1,791 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.