Thermal cyclers contracts

• The five suppliers that won the most thermal cyclers contracts took 52% of them (54 of 103).
• The median contract, £73k, is 30% below the median across healthcare contracts (£106k).
• London had the most contracts: 24, or 23% of the total.

1. 1UK Health Security Agency25 contracts£8.5m
2. 2Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust12 contracts£1.9m
3. 3Cardiff & Vale University Lhb5 contracts£1.4m
4. 4Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust5 contracts£250k
5. 5UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)5 contracts£122k
6. 6NHS Blood and Transplant3 contracts£3.4m
7. 7Public Health Wales NHS Trust3 contracts£2.8m
8. 8NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership3 contracts£127k
9. 9Scottish Government3 contracts£106k
10. 10National Records of Scotland3 contracts£97k

1. 1Thermo Fisher Scientific22 contracts£1.4m
2. 2Qiagen10 contracts£4.6m
3. 3Cepheid UK Limited9 contracts£2.6m
4. 4Revvity8 contracts£1.4m
5. 5Promega5 contracts£572k
6. 6Bio-Rad4 contracts£216k
7. 7Bruker3 contracts£2.1m
8. 8Hologic3 contracts£1.7m
9. 9Serosep3 contracts£1.5m
10. 10Agilent Technologies3 contracts£102k

Latest

• Award of Provision of a medium/high throughput magnetic bead DNA purification system (reissue) (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £37k

  National Records of Scotland to Thermo Fisher Scientific · Awarded 3 October 2026

• CSP26894 - QuantStudio Service Plan (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £22k

  UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to Thermo Fisher Scientific · Awarded 30 September 2026

• Supply of Panther instrument system (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £170k

  Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to Hologic · Awarded 28 September 2026

• Supply of Automatic Nucleic Acid Extractor (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  Value not published

  Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) to QT Biotech Co., Ltd. · Awarded 24 September 2026

• DNA Reagents and DNA Equipment Servicing (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £40k

  Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) to Qiagen · Awarded 22 September 2026

• C469292 - Cambridge Replacement Hologic Panther & upgrade (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £452k

  UK Health Security Agency to Hologic · Awarded 18 September 2026

• Nucleic Acid Quality Control instruments (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £150k

  UK Health Security Agency to Thermo Fisher Scientific · Awarded 17 September 2026

• Signature Plus Service plan (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £20k

  Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to Revvity · Awarded 16 September 2026

• CSP26836-Tape station 4150 (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £18k

  UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to Agilent Technologies · Awarded 11 September 2026

• KingFisher Apex with 96 DW Head (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £74k

  QUADRAM INSTITUTE BIOSCIENCE to Thermo Fisher Scientific · Awarded 1 September 2026

Largest

• Service/maintenance of GM Eplex Tower for York and Scarborough 3 year service (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £13.0m

  York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to Roche Diagnostics · Awarded 20 November 2025

• Provision of Seegene Consumables (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £2.8m

  Public Health Wales NHS Trust to MAST GROUP LIMITED · Awarded 25 August 2026

• Provision of Non-Invasive Pre-Natal Testing Service (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £2.0m

  St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to Yourgene Health · Awarded 21 January 2026

• Supply of Pathology Tests (Gastro Panel and Clostridium Difficile) and Laboratory Equipment Maintenance (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £1.9m

  Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust to Chrystal Medical Limited · Awarded 31 October 2025

• Supply and Support of High Through Put DNA Extraction Systems (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £1.8m

  NHS Blood and Transplant to Qiagen · Awarded 1 December 2025

Instruments and dedicated assays for nucleic acid testing: real-time and digital PCR, thermal cyclers, nucleic acid extraction, molecular diagnostic platforms and PCR-based genotyping.

• Real-time qPCR and digital PCR systems
• Thermal cyclers
• Automated nucleic acid extraction and extraction kits
• Molecular diagnostic platforms and CE-marked assays
• LAMP testing equipment
• PCR genotyping platforms and reagents
• Nucleic acid QC instruments (TapeStation)
• Forensic and rapid DNA processing instruments and software, including buccal swab analysis

• DNA sequencers and sequencing consumables (hlt.lab.genomic-sequencing)
• General PCR reagents and plate seals bought as catalogue supplies (hlt.lab.consumables-labware-chemicals)
• Molecular testing as a service (hlt.diag.pathology-laboratory-testing)
• Donor nucleic acid testing managed systems (hlt.lab.blood-transfusion-laboratory)

• Laboratory equipment
• Spectrometers
• Mass spectrometers
• Laboratory supplies
• Genome sequencing
• Medical fridges