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Company description
QIOPTIQ LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 1 April 1966; registered for 60 years; registered office reported in DENBIGHSHIRE. Its primary declared activity is 26511 · Manufacture of electronic measuring, testing etc. equipment, not for industrial process control, with 2 additional SIC activities reported.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 3 PSC records, 2 trade marks, 9 procurement records. This description is assembled from public data, is not a reliability assessment, and should be checked against the cited sources before a legally significant decision.
Web facts are never added from a name match alone. Internet enrichment requires the exact Companies House ID in Wikidata, and ambiguous results are excluded.
01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- QIOPTIQ LIMITED
- Company number
- 00876004
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 6 total · 0 outstanding · 6 satisfied
- Limited partnership members
- 0 general · 0 limited
A registered office is not necessarily a trading location. The address is reproduced from the Companies House bulk record and should be interpreted in that legal context.
02 Filing dates
Accounts and statements
Last accounts made up to
31 December 2024Next accounts due
30 September 2026Last statement made up to
28 January 2026Next statement due
11 February 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 70.9%
- Mean bonus gap
- -33.9%
- Women receiving bonus
- 1.1%
- Men receiving bonus
- 0.9%
- Women in top quartile
- 13.8%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 8.1%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 17.5%
- Women in lower quartile
- 18.8%
Earlier reporting years (8)
- 500 to 999-0.8% median hourly gap
- 500 to 9999.9% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99911.0% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99910.1% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99912.6% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99916.8% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99914.3% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99914.9% median hourly gap
Positive gaps mean men were paid more; negative gaps mean women were paid more. These figures are employer-reported and describe the workforce distribution, not equal pay for the same job. The company link uses the exact Companies House number supplied by the service.
04 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 January 2026 – 30 June 2026
- Filed
- 28 July 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 0 days
- Longest standard term
- 90 days
- E-invoicing offered
- No
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- No qualifying construction contracts
Complete reported payment fields
- Policy regime
- Regime-3
- Financial period started
- 1 January 2026
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £17,862,779
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £19,981,631
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £2,999,358
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £30,348,665
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 55.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 7.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 90 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
Current standard terms are 60 Days and new suppliers are set to these terms.
The majority of suppliers are on legacy standard terms set to 30 Days Month, so payment is made on the 30th of the month following the invoice date. - Dispute resolution process
Depending on the issue:
Delivery not received – POD will be requested. If this is provided the POD will be sent onto Goods In to resolve. If POD cannot be provided a credit note will be requested.
Difference in cost / quantity – Sent to the relevant department to assist in resolution and potentially back to the supplier.
No PO – Sent to the person who placed the order to raise PO or approve.
Currency – Invoice & PO are different currencies – this will be sent back to the buyer to resolve.
Unit of measure issue – send to buyer to establish who is at fault and to resolve
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 45.0 average days to pay75.0% outside terms
- 36.0 average days to pay21.0% outside terms
- 37.0 average days to pay16.0% outside terms
- 40.0 average days to pay39.0% outside terms
- 49.0 average days to pay55.0% outside terms
- 49.0 average days to pay48.0% outside terms
- 44.0 average days to pay49.0% outside terms
- 49.0 average days to pay29.0% outside terms
- 39.0 average days to pay28.0% outside terms
- 37.0 average days to pay44.0% outside terms
- 36.0 average days to pay32.0% outside terms
This is a company-submitted statutory disclosure, not a credit rating. BritDB preserves the reporting period and links the report only through the Companies House number supplied by the official service. Percentages describe payments made during that period and may change in later reports.
05 Global legal identity
Legal Entity Identifier
QIOPTIQ LIMITED
LEI 254900T57JH6YJVUW894 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- H0PO
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- 1 April 1966
- Initial LEI registration
- 19 December 2025
- LEI last updated
- 8 June 2026
- Next renewal
- 19 June 2027
- Managing LOU
- 5493001KJTIIGC8Y1R12
- Other legal names
- THALES OPTICS LIMITED; PILKINGTON P.E. LIMITED
- Legal address
- Glascoed Road, Denbighshire, Saint Asaph, LL17 0LL, GB
- Headquarters address
- Glascoed Road, Denbighshire, Saint Asaph, LL17 0LL, GB
GLEIF Level 2 relationships
IS DIRECTLY CONSOLIDATED BY
From LEI 254900T57JH6YJVUW894 to LEI 549300ZMO3HIO4B5JW90
- Related legal entity
- RHOMBI HOLDINGS LIMITED →
- Initial registration
- 19 December 2025
- Last updated
- 8 June 2026
- Next renewal
- 19 June 2027
- Validation sources
- ENTITY_SUPPLIED_ONLY
- Validation documents
- OTHER_OFFICIAL_DOCUMENTS
- Relationship periods
- Start: 2025-01-31T00:00:00.000Z; Type: RELATIONSHIP_PERIOD; End: 2025-02-28T00:00:00.000Z; Type: ACCOUNTING_PERIOD
- Validation reference
- Not supplied
IS ULTIMATELY CONSOLIDATED BY
From LEI 254900T57JH6YJVUW894 to LEI 549300VSMO9KYQWDND94
- Initial registration
- 19 December 2025
- Last updated
- 8 June 2026
- Next renewal
- 19 June 2027
- Validation sources
- ENTITY_SUPPLIED_ONLY
- Validation documents
- OTHER_OFFICIAL_DOCUMENTS
- Relationship periods
- Start: 2025-01-31T00:00:00.000Z; Type: RELATIONSHIP_PERIOD; End: 2025-12-28T00:00:00.000Z; Type: ACCOUNTING_PERIOD
- Validation reference
- Not supplied
LEI data provides global legal identity and source-reported relationships, not a credit or regulatory approval. BritDB links Level 1 identities only through GLEIF’s Companies House registration-authority identifier and exact company number; Level 2 parent and fund relationships and reporting exceptions are reproduced as supplied by GLEIF.
06 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- QIOPTIQ LIMITED
- Group submission
- No
- Statement period
- 1 January 2023 – 31 December 2023
- Approved
- 1 July 2024
- Sectors
- Defence and aerospace
Organisation structure
Covered in the statement
Policies
Covered in the statement
Risk assessment
Covered in the statement
Due diligence
Covered in the statement
Training
Covered in the statement
Goals and KPIs
Covered in the statement
Full statement information supplied to the registry
- Reported turnover band
- Over £500 million
- Years producing statements
- More than 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 3 July 2024
A registry entry records what the organisation declared in its statement. It is not an independent audit. Group statements can cover several companies; BritDB preserves each exact source-supplied company-number link and excludes approver names and email addresses.
07 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
Qioptiq Limited
Registration Z1267931
- Registered from
- 20 March 2008
- Current end date
- 19 March 2027
This is a candidate association, not an official Companies House link. The ICO file supplies no company number. The organisation name and postcode uniquely matched this company in the current snapshot. BritDB excludes all DPO contact fields and does not publish unmatched personal entries.
08 Public procurement
Contracts Finder awards
QIOPTIC
Defence Science and Technology Laboratory · ocds-b5fd17-5952d3b8-d3f3-43a3-ad50-e0b68fa403c2
- Supplier named in award
- QIOPTIQ LIMITED
- Award value
- £11,900
- Contract period
- 1 September 2024 – 31 March 2025
- Published
- 10 September 2024
- Procedure
- Single tender action (below threshold)
- Main CPV
- 35000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-5952d3b8-d3f3-43a3-ad50-e0b68fa403c2-2024-09-10T09:57:59+01:00
Procurement of Night Vision Equipment
Defence Science and Technology Laboratory · ocds-b5fd17-f50b2f96-ea3a-4349-9faf-a38d275701e5
- Supplier named in award
- QIOPTIQ LIMITED
- Award value
- £11,000
- Contract period
- 31 May 2023 – 30 November 2023
- Published
- 17 July 2023
- Procedure
- Single tender action (below threshold)
- Main CPV
- 35000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-f50b2f96-ea3a-4349-9faf-a38d275701e5-2023-07-17T11:11:41+01:00
ACC2029268 - Multispectral High Resolution Imaging with See-Spot capability
Defence Science and Technology Laboratory · ocds-b5fd17-6bc42751-13f9-4dc7-a262-8b166478252b
- Supplier named in award
- QIOPTIQ LIMITED
- Award value
- £198,744
- Contract period
- 1 February 2023 – 15 August 2023
- Published
- 3 March 2023
- Procedure
- Open procedure (below threshold)
- Main CPV
- 73000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-6bc42751-13f9-4dc7-a262-8b166478252b-2023-03-03T11:05:29Z
Retroflection Suppression in Light Weapon Sights
Defence Science and Technology Laboratory · ocds-b5fd17-2281b1fa-1002-48ff-a628-d8ef12b65bac
- Supplier named in award
- QIOPTIQ LIMITED
- Award value
- £293,310
- Contract period
- 4 November 2022 – 28 March 2023
- Published
- 19 December 2022
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Main CPV
- 31000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-2281b1fa-1002-48ff-a628-d8ef12b65bac-2022-12-19T13:53:50Z
FILS System Update
Defence Science and Technology Laboratory · ocds-b5fd17-a0519933-3a4a-4963-ae47-f3cb9e71c4fd
- Supplier named in award
- QIOPTIQ LIMITED
- Award value
- £174,800.75
- Contract period
- 16 September 2022 – 31 March 2023
- Published
- 30 September 2022
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Main CPV
- 35000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-a0519933-3a4a-4963-ae47-f3cb9e71c4fd-2022-09-30T12:47:49+01:00
Sniper In-Line Low Light System (SILLS) Weapon Sight 1 (WS1) - Contract Award Notice
Ministry of Defence · ocds-b5fd17-7e64423d-aaea-4dc6-ab13-4fff1f50b874
- Supplier named in award
- QIOPTIQ LIMITED
- Award value
- £1,371,667
- Contract period
- 14 March 2022 – 12 March 2027
- Published
- 24 March 2022
- Procedure
- Restricted procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 38633000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-7e64423d-aaea-4dc6-ab13-4fff1f50b874-2022-03-24T16:18:12Z
FILS 2
Defence Science and Technology Laboratory · ocds-b5fd17-03a5584e-0b2a-44f7-83e1-fa1b1751146e
- Supplier named in award
- Qioptic Limited
- Award value
- £225,000
- Contract period
- 12 October 2021 – 31 March 2022
- Published
- 17 January 2022
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Main CPV
- 73000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-03a5584e-0b2a-44f7-83e1-fa1b1751146e-2022-01-17T18:09:28Z
STA Signal Reduction
Defence Science and Technology Laboratory · ocds-b5fd17-f7bcda49-beb6-4667-8826-adfd2910b509
- Supplier named in award
- Qioptic Limited
- Award value
- £75,000
- Contract period
- 5 October 2021 – 31 March 2022
- Published
- 18 January 2022
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Main CPV
- 73000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-f7bcda49-beb6-4667-8826-adfd2910b509-2022-01-18T19:15:36Z
Night Vision Goggles
Defence Science and Technology Laboratory · ocds-b5fd17-4a93108e-c767-47c3-a404-cafdcd005d5a
- Supplier named in award
- Qioptic Limited
- Award value
- £250,000
- Contract period
- 20 September 2021 – 31 March 2022
- Published
- 17 January 2022
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Main CPV
- 73000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-4a93108e-c767-47c3-a404-cafdcd005d5a-2022-01-17T17:54:13Z
The supplier link is exact, but the award remains buyer-published procurement data. BritDB requires the GB-COH identifier supplied in the Contracts Finder OCDS release and does not infer suppliers from similar names.
TM UK trade marks
Exact owner-name matches
CROMIQA
Owner Qioptiq Limited · classes 9,40,42
- Filed / designated
- 8 July 2005
- Valid until / renewal due
- 8 July 2015
STOUT
Owner Qioptiq Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 13 January 1995
- Valid until / renewal due
- 13 January 2015
This is an exact normalised company-name match, not a registrar-confirmed ownership link. Another legal entity can have the same or a very similar name. UKIPO data is a historical 2018 snapshot; verify the owner and current status before relying on it.
09 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Rhombi Holdings Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Country registered
- England
- Legal authority
- England And Wales
- Legal form
- Private Limited Company
- Place registered
- Companies House
- Registration number
- 07678650
- Notified
- 27 October 2025
Lightsource Holdco Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Country registered
- England
- Legal authority
- The Companies Act 2006
- Legal form
- Private Limited Company
- Place registered
- Companies House
- Registration number
- 16025547
- Notified
- 31 January 2025
- Ceased
- 27 October 2025
Qioptiq Uk Holdings Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Country registered
- England & Wales
- Legal authority
- Companies Act 2006
- Legal form
- Company
- Place registered
- Companies House
- Registration number
- 05612156
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 31 January 2025
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10 Charity register
Charity Commission links
No exact company-number link in this snapshot
The Charity Commission extract did not explicitly associate this Companies House number with a charity. BritDB does not use a name-only match to fill the gap.
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11 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
The CCNI source number did not resolve uniquely to this Companies House record. BritDB did not use a name or address match.
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12 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
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No exact link is not sanctions clearance. UK restrictions can apply through ownership or control even where an entity is not separately named. Always use the current official list and obtain appropriate advice for a legally significant decision.
13 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
No exact GB-COH link in this snapshot
Find a Tender did not explicitly identify this Companies House number in a procurement party. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
These links use only the GB-COH identifier supplied in the procurement record. A company may have other public-sector work that is absent, older, below publication thresholds or published without a Companies House identifier.
14 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
No exact company-number registration linked
The licensed Environment Agency subset did not contain this exact Companies House number. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
This is a privacy-reduced, exact-company subset. The full official register also includes sole traders and applicants without a matching Companies House number. Check the current Environment Agency register before relying on registration status.
15 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
Manufacture of electronic measuring, testing etc. equipment, not for industrial process control
Manufacture of non-electronic measuring, testing etc. equipment, not for industrial process control
Manufacture of optical precision instruments
16 Connected public record
Checks beyond the company register
Charity Commission
0 exact company-number links.
Northern Ireland charities
0 unambiguous company-number links.
Public contracts
0 procurement processes linked by exact GB-COH identifier.
Waste register
0 exact company-number registrations.
Corporate notices
The Gazette is not yet connected.
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link in this report.
A checked source with no exact link is not a clean bill of health. Unchecked sources remain unknown, while sanctions may also apply through ownership or control of a listed person or entity.
17 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
18 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Annual employer reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Statutory supplier-payment reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Global legal identities linked through Companies House registration authority RA000585.
Annual statement summaries linked by exact source company number.
Privacy-reduced candidate associations based on a unique exact name-and-postcode match.
Historic awards linked by exact source-supplied GB-COH company identifier.
Current and ceased significant-control records joined by exact company number.
Daily England and Wales extract matched only by the official company registration number.
Daily CCNI export with company links only where the source number resolves unambiguously.
Complete FCDO list checked by exact UK-linked business registration number.
Procurement parties checked only through exact GB-COH identifiers.
Licensed subset linked only by exact Companies House number.
Financial regulation and licences.
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