Data Acquisition System Tenders and Contracts

A data acquisition system tender covers hardware and software that capture, digitise and log signals from sensors and instruments for monitoring, testing or research. That includes data loggers, digitisers, analogue-to-digital converters and the software that stores and processes the readings.

Stotles brings together data acquisition system tenders and contracts from 100+ portals into one search, so you do not have to check each portal separately, and you can set alerts for new opportunities across the UK and Ireland.

If you want to search the government portals directly, Find a Tender carries higher-value contracts across the UK and Contracts Finder carries lower-value contracts in England. Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales and eTendersNI cover Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, Ireland's eTenders covers Irish public bodies, and many councils, NHS bodies and housing associations publish on their own e-tendering portals such as ProContract. Research councils and universities publish instrument and logger tenders on their own portals as well as Find a Tender.

Data acquisition equipment must meet UK product safety and electrical safety rules, and loggers used for regulated monitoring are often expected to come with traceable calibration. Tenders usually set minimum insurance cover, check financial standing and ask for evidence of similar supply contracts at selection stage. Under the Procurement Act 2023, suppliers can be excluded for certain criminal convictions, insolvency or failure to pay tax.

Many are. A replacement tender for a fleet of temperature and humidity loggers, for example, can include the monitoring software, support and calibration services alongside the devices, so one contract covers supply and upkeep.

Research councils and universities buy data acquisition systems for experimental instruments, while health services and marine agencies buy data loggers for temperature and water quality monitoring. Defence bodies also buy specialist logging equipment.

Read research facility investment plans, monitoring network upgrade programmes, logger fleet replacement schedules and pre-tender notices, which show data acquisition work coming due ahead of a notice. On Stotles you can track those signals and the buyers behind them, then follow a notice from pre-tender through to award.

Data acquisition systems have no dedicated code. Notices are usually filed under 38424000 (Measuring and control equipment), 38430000 (Detection and analysis apparatus), 32441000 (Telemetry equipment) or 38340000 (Instruments for measuring quantities), so a keyword search finds more than a code does.