CPVDivision
38000000-5Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)
Portugal signed 2,597 contracts worth €163.5m under this code, January to August 2026, counted in the Portal BASE open register (IMPIC); 17.0% of open procedures drew a single bid.
Data: Portal BASE (IMPIC), edition
- EnglishLaboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)
- PortuguêsEquipamento laboratorial, óptico e de precisão (exc. óculos)
- EspañolEquipo de laboratorio, óptico y de precisión (excepto gafas)
- FrançaisÉquipements de laboratoire, d'optique et de précision (excepté les lunettes)
In the other 20 official languages
Contracts signed and value contracted under each, January to August 2026. These are the deepest codes with data beneath this one, so the branches between are skipped rather than walked.
- 38200000 Geological and geophysical instruments
- 38300000 Measuring instruments
- 38340000 Instruments for measuring quantities
- 38341000 Apparatus for measuring radiation
- 38343000 Error-monitoring equipment
- 38400000 Instruments for checking physical characteristics
- 38420000 Instruments for measuring flow, level and pressure of liquids and gases
- 38421000 Flow-measuring equipment
- 38421100 Water meters
- 38425000 Fluid mechanics equipment
- 38430000 Detection and analysis apparatus
- 38432000 Analysis apparatus
- 38433000 Spectrometers
- 38433100 Mass spectrometer
- 38434000 Analysers
- 38434540 Biomedical equipment
- 38434560 Chemistry analyser
- 38437000 Laboratory pipettes and accessories
- 38500000 Checking and testing apparatus
- 38510000 Microscopes
- 38540000 Machines and apparatus for testing and measuring
- 38600000 Optical instruments
- 38630000 Astronomical and optical instruments
- 38636000 Specialist optical instruments
- 38650000 Photographic equipment
- 38700000 Time registers and the like; parking meters
- 38720000 Time recorders
- 38900000 Miscellaneous evaluation or testing instruments
Who buys under it
- Universidade de Coimbra192
- Centro de Desporto166
- Águas do Norte, SA155
- Universidade do Minho146
Portugal publishes its complete contract register as open data, so this is counted rather than estimated. January to August 2026. The count and the value cover every procedure type; the bid figures cover open procedures only, because in a direct award the buyer chooses who bids. 393 of them published a bidder list, with a median of 4. A mean is published from 10 open procedures up and a single-bid share from 30, so a rate on this page always rests on enough of them to mean something. All 26 divisions ranked.
Who wins this division in Portugal
Among companies with at least €1m awarded in Portugal in 2026 to date, Microsegur - Soluções de Engenharia, Unipessoal, Lda. is the largest under CPV division 38, Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses): €9.3m awarded, 8.8% of the €106.8m won under the division by that group. Source: Portal BASE (base.gov.pt), IMPIC open data, register edition 4 Oct 2026.
133 companies above the €1m line won contracts under CPV division 38 in 2026 to date.
| Rank | Supplier | Awarded | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Microsegur - Soluções de Engenharia, Unipessoal, Lda. | €9.3m | 8.8% |
| 2 | Lusopalex - Produtos de Saude Unipessoal Lda | €7.2m | 6.8% |
| 3 | UNICAM SISTEMAS ANALITICOS, LDA | €5.4m | 5.1% |
| 4 | Paralab | €4.7m | 4.5% |
| 5 | ILC Instrumentos de Laboratório e Científicos Lda | €4.7m | 4.4% |
| 6 | Scansci - Equipamentos de laboratório Lda | €4.6m | 4.3% |
| 7 | Soquímica, Sociedade de Representações de Química, Lda. | €4.4m | 4.2% |
| 8 | Specanalítica, Equipamentos Científicos, Lda | €3.7m | 3.6% |
| 9 | VWR International - Material de Laboratório, Soc. Unipessoal, Lda | €3.5m | 3.4% |
| 10 | Micotec - Electrónica, Lda | €3.4m | 3.3% |
Contracts and value awarded under CPV division 38 only, 2026 to date, from the Portal BASE register (IMPIC open data), edition 4 Oct 2026. A share is a share of the €106.8m these companies won under the division, not of everything Portugal spent under it. Every supplier with a page.
Who buys under it
- RESEAU DES ACHETEURS HOSPITALIERS (RESAH)165
- CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (CNRS)51
- SIRET 1300153990001238
- UNIVERSITE DE CAEN NORMANDIE31
France publishes its essential procurement data, the DECP, with the number of offers received on every marché, a field its own schema makes mandatory. January to July 2026, Two things to read alongside the figures: the amount is the notified amount, which for a framework agreement is the ceiling rather than the spend; and the bid figures exclude marchés passed without publicity or competition, where a single offer is the design of the procedure. 616 competed marchés declared their offers here, 4 on average; the median is shown because an allotted marché repeats the whole consultation's offer count on each lot, which inflates a mean and leaves the median alone. Same bars as Portugal: a mean from 10 procedures, a single-offer share from 30. Buyers are named from their SIRET through the public company register. The French barometer and its method.
The EU Official Journal carries the same measurement for every member state: eForms requires the count of submissions received on every contract award notice. 52.1% of the 1,705 lots awarded under this code across the Union drew a single bid, and the median lot drew 1. Above the EU thresholds only, and the lot is the unit because one notice can award many. Where EU tenders draw a single bid. This division, country by country: where it draws the fewest bids.
How to cite
TRINTA, "CPV 38000000-5: Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)", Portal BASE (IMPIC), edition 5 October 2026, https://trinta.ai/cpv/38000000 (accessed [date]).
Buyers tag their notices with CPV codes, and mis-tag them often enough that a code-only alert misses real tenders. TRINTA's radar reads the notices themselves, in their own languages, and scores each one against what your company actually sells, so a procedure filed under a neighbouring code still surfaces when the text fits.
Official label, Regulation (EC) No 213/2008 (CPV 2008), via ted.europa.eu. Markdown: https://trinta.ai/cpv/38000000.md