Mass spectrometers contracts
UK public sector · 123 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
- 123
- Last 12 months
- Median contract
- £88k
- Recorded value
- Recorded value
- £29.1m
- 120 of 123 main-service contracts have a published value
- Buyers
- 50
- Suppliers
- 26
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See which ones
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What stands out
- The five suppliers that won the most mass spectrometers contracts took 63% of them (77 of 123).
- Contracts awarded per quarter fell 48% from the first half of the period to the second.
- The median contract, £88k, is 17% below the median across healthcare contracts (£106k).
- South West had the most contracts: 17, or 14% of the total.
Who buys mass spectrometers
By contracts awarded, the 12 months to 6 October 2026.
- 1UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)11 contracts£2.3m
- 2University of Dundee7 contracts£750k
- 3Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust6 contracts£142k
- 4NPL Management Limited5 contracts£10.3m
- 5Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl)5 contracts£1.9m
- 6Centre for Process Innovation5 contracts£1.7m
- 7UK Health Security Agency5 contracts£795k
- 8Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust4 contracts£988k
- 9University of Edinburgh4 contracts£523k
- 10Scottish Government4 contracts£263k
Top mass spectrometers contractors by contracts won
The 12 months to 6 October 2026.
- 1Agilent Technologies21 contracts£13.3m
- 2Thermo Fisher Scientific20 contracts£5.5m
- 3Waters20 contracts£1.8m
- 4Bruker9 contracts£1.4m
- 5SCIEX8 contracts£2.5m
- 6Cytiva6 contracts£417k
- 7Shimadzu UK Ltd3 contracts£327k
- 8MKS Instruments3 contracts£35k
- 9DaVinci Laboratory Solutions2 contracts£217k
- 10Elementar2 contracts£86k
Latest and largest awards
Each links to the official notice.
Latest
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to Bruker · Awarded 1 October 2026
Centre for Process Innovation to Waters · Awarded 25 September 2026
University of Edinburgh to supplier not published · Awarded 22 September 2026
Aston University to Waters · Awarded 18 September 2026
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust to SCIEX · Awarded 18 September 2026
Maintenance; XEVO - Pathology Forensic Toxicology Lab PW035 (official notice, opens in a new tab)
£36k
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust to Waters · Awarded 17 September 2026
Staffordshire University to Agilent Technologies · Awarded 11 September 2026
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to SCIEX · Awarded 11 September 2026
UK Health Security Agency to Thermo Fisher Scientific, Trading name of Thermo Electron Manufacturing Limited · Awarded 8 September 2026
University of Dundee to supplier not published · Awarded 4 September 2026
Largest
NPL Management Limited to Agilent Technologies · Awarded 28 August 2026
Centre for Process Innovation to Thermo Fisher Scientific · Awarded 10 March 2026
Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) to Agilent Technologies · Awarded 27 January 2026
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to Thermo Fisher Scientific · Awarded 19 December 2025
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to Thermo Fisher Scientific · Awarded 23 December 2025
Contracts awarded by quarter
Where the contracts were awarded
England 95 · Scotland 18 · Wales 7 · Northern Ireland 3
What is included
Mass spectrometers, LC-MS, GC-MS, ICP-MS, HPLC and ion chromatography systems with their accessories, dedicated consumables and OEM servicing.
- LC-MS and LC-MS/MS
- GC-MS
- High-resolution mass spectrometers
- ICP-MS and autosamplers
- Isotope ratio mass spectrometry
- HPLC and preparative HPLC
- Ion chromatography
- Mass spec and chromatography maintenance
What is not included
- Optical and atomic emission spectroscopy and NMR (hlt.lab.spectroscopy-instruments)
- Multi-vendor lab servicing (hlt.lab.equipment-servicing-calibration)