42990000-2
Miscellaneous special-purpose machinery
The official CPV 2008 entry for 42990000-2. 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
154
Published value, last 12 months
£88.7B
Buyers publishing most against this code
- UNITED UTILITIES WATER LIMITED10
- Ministry of Justice7
- UK Atomic Energy Authority7
- UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD5
- Queen's University Belfast4
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.
- 42991000Paper, printing and bookbinding machinery and parts
- 42992000Special-purpose electrical goods
- 42993000Chemical industry machinery
- 42994000Machinery for working rubber or plastics
- 42995000Miscellaneous cleaning machines
- 42996000Machinery for the treatment of sewage
- 42997000Pipeline machinery
- 42998000Pallet-picking system
- 42999000Non-domestic vacuum cleaners and floor polishers
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.
- 42910000Distilling, filtering or rectifying apparatus
- 42920000Machinery for cleaning bottles, packing and weighing and spraying machinery
- 42930000Centrifuges, calendering or vending machines
- 42940000Machinery for the heat treatment of materials
- 42950000Parts of general-purpose machinery
- 42960000Command and control system, printing, graphics, office automation and information-processing equipment
- 42970000Parts of dishwashing machines and of machines for cleaning, filling, packing or wrapping
- 42980000Gas generators
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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