38500000-0
Checking and testing apparatus
The official CPV 2008 entry for 38500000-0. UK public sector buyers use this code to classify contracts on Find a Tender, Contracts Finder, Sell2Wales, Public Contracts Scotland and eTendersNI.
Tenders, last 12 months
247
Published value, last 12 months
£209.0B
Buyers publishing most against this code
- UK Research and Innovation17
- UK Research & Innovation (UKRI)16
- Queen's University Belfast7
- UNITED KINGDOM NATIONAL NUCLEAR LABORATORY LIMITED7
- CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST4
Data as of 27 July 2026. Counted across Find a Tender, Contracts Finder, Sell2Wales, Public Contracts Scotland and eTendersNI.
Codes beneath this one
More specific classifications inside this code. Buyers pick one of these when a contract has a narrow subject.
Related codes at the same level
Codes that share this one's parent. Worth scanning: buyers regularly file a contract under a neighbour rather than the code you would expect.
- 38100000Navigational and meteorological instruments
- 38200000Geological and geophysical instruments
- 38300000Measuring instruments
- 38400000Instruments for checking physical characteristics
- 38600000Optical instruments
- 38700000Time registers and the like; parking meters
- 38800000Industrial process control equipment and remote-control equipment
- 38900000Miscellaneous evaluation or testing instruments
Codes buyers commonly use instead
Codes that appear on the same notices as this one. If you monitor this code alone, these are where the work you are missing tends to land.
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