38900000-4
Miscellaneous evaluation or testing instruments
The official CPV 2008 entry for 38900000-4. 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
116
Published value, last 12 months
£98.4B
Buyers publishing most against this code
- UK Health Security Agency10
- UK Atomic Energy Authority7
- Defence Science and Technology Laboratory4
- Secretary of State for Health and Social Care acting as part of the Crown through UK Health Security Agency4
- Milton Keynes City Council3
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.
- 38910000Hygiene monitoring and testing equipment
- 38920000Seed and feed equipment
- 38930000Humidity and moisture measuring instruments
- 38940000Nuclear evaluation instruments
- 38950000Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) equipment
- 38960000Alcohol ignition lock
- 38970000Research, testing and scientific technical simulator
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
- 38500000Checking and testing apparatus
- 38600000Optical instruments
- 38700000Time registers and the like; parking meters
- 38800000Industrial process control equipment and remote-control equipment
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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