Digital pathology contracts
UK public sector · 75 contracts awarded in the 12 months to 6 October 2026
Covering 600+ buyer portals · 5 years of records · Updated 6 October 2026 · How we count
- Contracts awarded
- 75
- Last 12 months
- Median contract
- £48k
- Recorded value
- Recorded value
- £171m
- 72 of 74 main-service contracts have a published value
- Buyers
- 32
- Suppliers
- 26
24 digital pathology contracts ending in the next 12 months
See which ones
BidSkim assigns contracts to services from the notice text. How services are assigned
What stands out
- The five suppliers that won the most digital pathology contracts took 59% of them (44 of 75).
- The median contract, £48k, is 55% below the median across healthcare contracts (£106k).
- East of England had the most contracts: 14, or 19% of the total.
Who buys digital pathology
By contracts awarded, the 12 months to 6 October 2026.
- 1Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust10 contracts£3.3m
- 2NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership6 contracts£3.0m
- 3Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA)6 contracts£319k
- 4Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust6 contracts£127k
- 5University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust4 contracts£332k
- 6Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust4 contracts£284k
- 7University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust3 contracts£4.2m
- 8University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust3 contracts£532k
- 9University Hospitals of Liverpool Group3 contracts£445k
- 10Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust3 contracts£64k
Top digital pathology contractors by contracts won
The 12 months to 6 October 2026.
- 1Leica Microsystems (UK) Limited18 contracts£50.9m
- 2Sakura Finetek UK Limited10 contracts£427k
- 3Axlab Ltd6 contracts£3.8m
- 4Roche Diagnostics5 contracts£94.9m
- 5Epredia5 contracts£170k
- 6A. Menarini Diagnostics Ltd3 contracts£311k
- 7Cellpath Limited2 contracts£94k
- 8Agilent Technologies2 contracts£46k
- 9pfm Medical2 contracts£37k
- 10Afos Ltd2 contracts£30k
Latest and largest awards
Each links to the official notice.
Latest
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to Sakura Finetek UK Limited · Awarded 30 September 2026
Queen's University Belfast to Leica Microsystems (UK) Limited · Awarded 7 September 2026
NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership to Leica Microsystems (UK) Limited · Awarded 26 August 2026
NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership to Roche Diagnostics · Awarded 24 August 2026
Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust to PreventX · Awarded 12 August 2026
NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership to Leica Microsystems (UK) Limited · Awarded 7 August 2026
University Of Worcester to Scientific Laboratory Supplies · Awarded 30 July 2026
Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) to VWR International · Awarded 29 July 2026
University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust to AnatoPath Limited · Awarded 27 July 2026
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde to supplier not published · Awarded 26 June 2026
Largest
BSO Procurement and Logistics Service (PaLS) to Roche Diagnostics · Awarded 3 March 2026
Service/maintenance of Aperio GT 450 DX Next Gen. Scanners (official notice, opens in a new tab)
£45.5m
York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to Leica Microsystems (UK) Limited · Awarded 27 May 2026
Digital Pathology Services
£7.1m
Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust to supplier not published · Awarded 12 August 2026
University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust to supplier not published · Awarded 10 December 2025
NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership to Leica Microsystems (UK) Limited · Awarded 1 January 2026
Contracts awarded by quarter
Where the contracts were awarded
England 61 · Wales 9 · Northern Ireland 3 · Scotland 2
What is included
Histology and cytology laboratory equipment: IHC and ISH staining systems, tissue cassette printers, cellular pathology managed services and digital slide scanners.
- Cellular pathology managed services
- IHC and ISH staining systems and reagent rental
- Tissue cassette printers
- Digital slide scanners
What is not included
- Digital pathology software platforms (it.lob.digital-pathology)
- Outsourced histopathology reporting (hlt.diag.pathology-laboratory-testing)
- Research microscopes (hlt.lab.microscopes)
- Spatial biology platforms (hlt.lab.life-science-research-instruments)