CPVDivision
38000000-5
Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)
In the other 20 official languages
Beneath this code · 9
38100000-6Navigational and meteorological instruments38200000-7Geological and geophysical instruments38300000-8Measuring instruments38400000-9Instruments for checking physical characteristics38500000-0Checking and testing apparatus38600000-1Optical instruments38700000-2Time registers and the like; parking meters38800000-3Industrial process control equipment and remote-control equipment38900000-4Miscellaneous evaluation or testing instrumentsThe busiest codes beneath this one, in Portugal
38421100Water meters75 · €5.9m38424000Measuring and control equipment61 · €2.7m38970000Research, testing and scientific technical simulator49 · €2.7m38432200Chromatographs28 · €2.9m38295000Topography equipment21 · €599.1k38341300Instruments for measuring electrical quantities21 · €654.6k38434540Biomedical equipment20 · €1.5m38434500Biochemical analysers19 · €1.2m38651600Digital cameras16 · €343.6k38425100Manometers15 · €12.8kContracts signed and value contracted under each, January to July 2026. These are the deepest codes with data beneath this one, so the branches between are skipped rather than walked.
What Portugal signed under this code
Who buys under it
Portugal publishes its complete contract register as open data, so this is counted rather than estimated. January to July 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. 355 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 25 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): €9.4m awarded, 9.9% of the €94.3m won under the division by that group. Source: Portal BASE (base.gov.pt), IMPIC open data, register edition 15 Aug 2026.
116 companies above the €1m line won contracts under CPV division 38 in 2026 to date.
Contracts and value awarded under CPV division 38 only, 2026 to date, from the Portal BASE register (IMPIC open data), edition 15 Aug 2026. A share is a share of the €94.3m these companies won under the division, not of everything Portugal spent under it. Every supplier with a page.
What France notified under this code
Who buys under it
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. 579 competed marchés declared their offers here, 4.2 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 market this code sits in
Laboratory and research342 codes across 2 divisions, and the buyers who publish under them.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