# Laboratory and research tenders: where they are published

> Public laboratory and research procurement: the 342 CPV codes that carry it, what its notices look like, and where the registry maps its buyers.

Source: https://trinta.ai/tenders-by-sector/laboratory-and-research · Format: Markdown mirror of that page · Language: en

## The vocabulary that carries it

- 38000000-5 Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses) (https://trinta.ai/cpv/38000000)
- 73000000-2 Research and development services and related consultancy services (https://trinta.ai/cpv/73000000)

342 official CPV codes fall under these divisions.

## The codes Portugal actually buys under (January to July 2026)

- [38421100 Water meters](https://trinta.ai/cpv/38421100): 75 contracts, €5.9m
- [73220000 Development consultancy services](https://trinta.ai/cpv/73220000): 70 contracts, €2.1m
- [38424000 Measuring and control equipment](https://trinta.ai/cpv/38424000): 61 contracts, €2.7m
- [73111000 Research laboratory services](https://trinta.ai/cpv/73111000): 60 contracts, €730.5k
- [38970000 Research, testing and scientific technical simulator](https://trinta.ai/cpv/38970000): 49 contracts, €2.7m
- [73210000 Research consultancy services](https://trinta.ai/cpv/73210000): 31 contracts, €627.3k
- [38432200 Chromatographs](https://trinta.ai/cpv/38432200): 28 contracts, €2.9m
- [38295000 Topography equipment](https://trinta.ai/cpv/38295000): 21 contracts, €599.1k
- [38341300 Instruments for measuring electrical quantities](https://trinta.ai/cpv/38341300): 21 contracts, €654.6k
- [38434540 Biomedical equipment](https://trinta.ai/cpv/38434540): 20 contracts, €1.5m
- [38434500 Biochemical analysers](https://trinta.ai/cpv/38434500): 19 contracts, €1.2m
- [73120000 Experimental development services](https://trinta.ai/cpv/73120000): 19 contracts, €410.2k

Contracts signed and value contracted under each code, counted from Portugal's open register across every procedure type. Each row is the deepest code carrying data, because a whole division is credited with everything beneath it and would take the list.

## What the notices look like

The specification is the contract here. A laboratory notice names instruments and performance criteria precisely, which means a supplier whose catalogue fits knows immediately, and a supplier whose catalogue does not should not spend a day on it.

## Who publishes these tenders

The registry classifies buyers by type (health, state enterprise, regional, defence, donor) and this sector is not one of those types, so no sector-buyer count is published here. Its notices come from the general public buyers of each country; the country pages show where those publish.

## Frequently asked questions

**Which CPV codes cover laboratory and research tenders?**

Laboratory procurement runs under CPV division 38, laboratory, optical and precision equipments, and research services under division 73, research and development services and related consultancy. University and hospital buyers also use the medical and IT divisions for adjacent purchases, so the practical watch spans more than the two core divisions.

**Why is laboratory equipment procurement worth watching?**

Because the specificity that makes these tenders hard to write makes them easy to qualify: either the instrument matches the specification or it does not, and the number of suppliers who can honestly say yes is small. In the Portuguese data TRINTA publishes, laboratory and precision equipment shows one of the higher rates of procedures with very few bidders.

## How contested it is, measured in Portugal

- 17.7% of open procedures drew a single bid
- 7.8 bids on average
- 355 open procedures behind these figures
- CPV 38, Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses): 17.7% single bid across 355 procedures

Portugal publishes its complete contract register as open data, so competition is counted there rather than estimated. These are Portuguese figures for January to July 2026, covering only open procedures whose bidder list was reported; direct awards are excluded, because there the buyer chooses who bids. Method: https://trinta.ai/barometro

## What we have published on laboratory and research

- [Laboratory Equipment Tenders: A Supplier's Playbook](https://trinta.ai/blog/laboratory-equipment-tenders-a-supplier-s-playbook), Guide, 5 min read

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