01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- LIFE TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
- Company number
- SC083107
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
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
3 May 2026Next statement due
17 May 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- -15.0%
- Mean bonus gap
- 14.1%
- Women receiving bonus
- 92.1%
- Men receiving bonus
- 92.7%
- Women in top quartile
- 42.9%
- Women in lower quartile
- 51.4%
Earlier reporting years (8)
- 1000 to 49995.7% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49995.4% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49996.9% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49997.1% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49993.9% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49994.5% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499910.2% median hourly gap
- 500 to 9995.9% 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
- 3 August 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 0 days
- Longest standard term
- 90 days
- E-invoicing offered
- Yes
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- No qualifying construction contracts
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
The most frequently applied payment terms agreed with suppliers is 30-45 days.
- Dispute resolution process
As a company we place great importance on building and maintaining strong relationships with our suppliers.
Should a supplier need to a raise a dispute with regards to an invoice or payment, this should be directed to our accounts payable team. The accounts payable team will then follow appropriate escalation procedures to the relevant approver/requisitioner.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 29.0 average days to pay15.0% outside terms
- 14.0 average days to pay18.0% outside terms
- 28.0 average days to pay8.0% outside terms
- 38.0 average days to pay75.0% outside terms
- 35.0 average days to pay72.0% outside terms
- 42.0 average days to pay43.0% outside terms
- 30.0 average days to pay40.0% outside terms
- 25.0 average days to pay36.0% outside terms
- 29.0 average days to pay26.0% outside terms
- 24.0 average days to pay34.0% outside terms
- 26.0 average days to pay28.0% 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 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
Life Technologies Limited
Registration Z1823006
- Registered from
- 3 July 2009
- Current end date
- 2 July 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.
06 Public procurement
Contracts Finder awards
Applied Biosystems QuantStudio 5 Quantitative PCR cycler & analysis system & a TaqMan RNase P Instrument Verification Kit
UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND · ocds-b5fd17-2e9b7635-5463-4961-849e-643ce59d768c
- Award value
- £29,930.15
- Contract period
- 26 June 2025 – 27 June 2025
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
RFL - QS5 0.2ML QPCR SYSTEM, NHSSC CONTRACT REF - Contract Reference Number: 2023/S 000-028831
Partners Procurement Service · ocds-b5fd17-5a2e7968-43f4-45ce-af29-9cea4ab4171f
- Award value
- £34,724.23
- Contract period
- 20 March 2025 – 20 March 2025
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
Cell Sorter for Biological Sciences
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON · ocds-b5fd17-fdca352c-03e1-4e60-947b-64f1b9688534
- Award value
- £532,016.57
- Contract period
- 6 March 2025 – 31 May 2025
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
GSS24728 - SuperFi II PCR kit
UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED · ocds-b5fd17-ca9bd833-2ba2-4ff8-b6ce-3e43050147a1
- Award value
- £10,140.51
- Contract period
- 1 October 2024 – 11 October 2024
- Procedure
- Competitive quotation (below threshold)
GSS23744 - UK Research and Innovation: Molecular Biology and Laboratory Chemicals Framework
UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED · ocds-b5fd17-88661dc5-8540-4486-9164-372167ad7c5f
- Award value
- £0.01
- Contract period
- 1 August 2024 – 31 July 2028
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
Supply of CaptureSelect⢠C-tagXL Affinity Matrix
CENTRE FOR PROCESS INNOVATION LIMITED · ocds-b5fd17-27c98b4c-9c47-45af-8571-4e83440aa486
- Award value
- £200,000
- Contract period
- 7 August 2024 – 7 August 2025
- Procedure
- Negotiated procedure without prior publication (above threshold)
GSS24380 - Platinum SuperFi II Polymerase
UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED · ocds-b5fd17-16080189-2c08-4d57-a184-fd3a5a095c45
- Award value
- £13,914.12
- Contract period
- 23 May 2024 – 31 March 2025
- Procedure
- Competitive quotation (below threshold)
GSS23564: UK Research and Innovation - Oligonucleotide Synthesis and Nucleic Acid Sequencing Services Framework
UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED · ocds-b5fd17-74e8fecd-7b07-4b52-9a99-6eb798f48255
- Award value
- £0.01
- Contract period
- 22 February 2024 – 21 February 2027
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
GSS24131 - Lab Equipment Maintenance Cover
UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED · ocds-b5fd17-dfcbb352-cb15-48e0-b668-c517019c11b1
- Award value
- £11,869.96
- Contract period
- 28 February 2024 – 27 December 2024
- Procedure
- Competitive quotation (below threshold)
RapidHT Cartridges
Defence Science and Technology Laboratory · ocds-b5fd17-350f0ce3-961c-4536-a611-956e03b124ed
- Award value
- £19,989.94
- Contract period
- 24 January 2024 – 29 February 2024
- Procedure
- Single tender action (below threshold)
RapidHit Purchase
Defence Science and Technology Laboratory · ocds-b5fd17-8dc68b22-3330-4d35-94c0-063ca106a33b
- Award value
- £81,247.73
- Contract period
- 29 September 2023 – 2 October 2023
- Procedure
- Single tender action (below threshold)
Veritipro TC for HID Instrument plus Software and Service Contract
University Of The West Of England · ocds-b5fd17-a654eca8-d171-4335-8e66-930a737d307a
- Award value
- £134,627.17
- Contract period
- 6 July 2023 – 7 July 2023
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
C-tag resin for process development
CENTRE FOR PROCESS INNOVATION LIMITED · ocds-b5fd17-fb7e5038-a21c-4b05-a04e-1d1a6afaabf5
- Award value
- £40,124.50
- Contract period
- 8 June 2023 – 1 May 2024
- Procedure
- Open procedure (below threshold)
Renewal of Service Contract
Defence Science and Technology Laboratory · ocds-b5fd17-a760472a-d8d0-479b-9b00-da9ef6fadcc9
- Award value
- £17,374.50
- Contract period
- 7 June 2023 – 6 June 2026
- Procedure
- Single tender action (below threshold)
HID DNA quantification system and accessories
Defence Science and Technology Laboratory · ocds-b5fd17-9bbb70a5-c3cb-4255-aa76-125a5c57f550
- Award value
- £39,385.16
- Contract period
- 20 February 2023 – 31 March 2023
- Procedure
- Single tender action (below threshold)
Purchase, delivery and installation of specialist laboratory equipment. EVOS M5000, DSS, 1Y REX
UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA · ocds-b5fd17-b71a3790-1aad-4ea4-9743-9c8676c4e9e5
- Award value
- £0
- Contract period
- 28 January 2023 – 31 March 2023
- Procedure
- Single tender action (below threshold)
FM22345 - PCR Machine
UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED · ocds-b5fd17-6f6daf24-4a55-49a0-b304-30982987687e
- Award value
- £48,996.21
- Contract period
- 22 December 2022 – 3 January 2023
- Procedure
- Competitive quotation (below threshold)
Sanger Sequencer 3730 Upgrade
Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew · ocds-b5fd17-7f6ea026-e6d7-4c2a-b94e-2e5ab5df8bf5
- Award value
- £125,441.48
- Contract period
- 22 December 2022 – 22 December 2025
- Procedure
- Single tender action (below threshold)
Service for ThermoFisher (Life Technologies) Equipment and purchase of reagents 2022
The Metropolitan Police Federation · ocds-b5fd17-4be01c44-bac2-43c7-8a5c-5a295ed807ca
- Award value
- £47,156
- Contract period
- 1 April 2022 – 31 March 2023
- Procedure
- Single tender action (below threshold)
2274 - Consumables for Molecular Biology
CENTRE FOR PROCESS INNOVATION LIMITED · ocds-b5fd17-4b16bae6-4f58-45bf-8066-65dd4ab80f32
- Award value
- £3,900,000
- Contract period
- 12 April 2022 – 11 April 2026
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
Kingfish Flex Extraction Instrument
Defence Science and Technology Laboratory · ocds-b5fd17-6fd4969e-5cdb-41f2-b11f-41490255207f
- Award value
- £87,605.58
- Contract period
- 18 March 2022 – 31 March 2022
- Procedure
- Single tender action (below threshold)
2289 - Supply of qPCR Analysers
CENTRE FOR PROCESS INNOVATION LIMITED · ocds-b5fd17-c2ab14b2-1d55-4ec5-a046-6c985780b923
- Award value
- £189,330
- Contract period
- 21 December 2021 – 20 December 2025
- Procedure
- Open procedure (below threshold)
Invitrogen Attune CytPix Flow cytometer
UK Centre For Ecology & Hydrology · ocds-b5fd17-c2802ad5-74c8-4924-8ae5-1be1ee7b7652
- Award value
- £133,323.42
- Contract period
- 1 December 2021 – 31 January 2022
- Procedure
- Single tender action (below threshold)
PHE_Scientific Provision to purchase Quantstudio7-Genotyping/genomic expansion
Public Health England · ocds-b5fd17-6155b56e-0ad1-4b28-bb7c-1e406bd76e25
- Award value
- £400,000
- Contract period
- 30 April 2021 – 29 April 2022
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
PHE_Scientific Provision for purchase of the TaqMan SARS-CoV-2 Mutation panel
Public Health England · ocds-b5fd17-1158ed84-378d-47bd-a532-cc4fb67f84fb
- Award value
- £150,000
- Contract period
- 28 April 2021 – 27 October 2021
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
Awarded Service Contract
Defence Science and Technology Laboratory · ocds-b5fd17-57e5a3d7-7275-4c29-b178-02a5b0e951ef
- Award value
- £14,680
- Contract period
- 27 April 2021 – 26 April 2022
- Procedure
- Single tender action (below threshold)
National Microbiology Framework - Lot 2: Research and Development Goods and Services
Public Health England · ocds-b5fd17-14133027-6a6f-4a1f-8518-268021f54a78
- Award value
- £1,500,000,000
- Contract period
- 23 April 2021 – 22 April 2023
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
National Microbiology Framework - Lot 2: Research and Development Goods and Services
Public Health England · ocds-b5fd17-14133027-6a6f-4a1f-8518-268021f54a78
- Award value
- £1,500,000,000
- Contract period
- 23 April 2021 – 22 April 2023
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
National Microbiology Framework - Lot 3 Manufacturing, Product Development and Commercialisation
Public Health England · ocds-b5fd17-751db5e6-85dc-4aac-82a2-c5c7f21c7167
- Award value
- £2,500,000,000
- Contract period
- 9 April 2021 – 8 April 2023
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
National Microbiology Framework - Lot 1: Diagnostic Goods and Services
Public Health England · ocds-b5fd17-f7d14908-7da1-4faa-8801-324f837a758e
- Award value
- £3,000,000,000
- Contract period
- 9 April 2021 – 8 April 2023
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
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.
07 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Thermo Fisher Scientific Life Holdings 2 Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Notified
- 7 March 2023
The company has not yet completed the steps to find its PSCs
- Notified
- 3 May 2017
- Ceased
- 26 July 2016
Thermo Fisher Scientific Life Holdings Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 7 March 2023
PSC records are company-filed public-register information. When the exact same displayed individual name occurs at multiple companies, BritDB offers a non-indexed cross-reference page. It is a name match only, not proof that the records describe the same person. Service addresses and partial dates of birth are deliberately omitted.
08 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.
This company-level check covers the Charity Commission for England and Wales. Links are accepted only when the official extract supplies this exact company registration number. Scottish charities now have separate OSCR profiles, but OSCR’s bulk fields do not provide a Companies House number, so BritDB does not infer a company link.
09 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.
CCNI publishes company numbers without a jurisdiction prefix. BritDB links only when the plausible padded UK and NI candidates resolve to exactly one Companies House company.
10 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
The imported UK Sanctions List did not supply this Companies House number as a UK-linked business identifier. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
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.
11 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
CSP26759 - Quantstudio Contract Renewal
UK Research and Innovation · updated 12 August 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Waiver - BWC_RQ3 - 06798 - Life Technologies Ltd - Cancer service Panel
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust · updated 4 August 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
MFT-MT-0683 "2x 3500xL Genetic Analyzer 1x DNA Analyzer ABI Pr
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust · updated 28 July 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Logistics fee
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST · updated 2 June 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Waiver - BWC_RQ3 - Life Technologies Ltd - Medical Equipment
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust · updated 27 March 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
UKRI-5893 Service contract for Real Time PCR machines and plate loader
UK Research & Innovation (UKRI) · updated 10 March 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Maintenance contract for QUANTSTUDIO 6 PRO
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust · updated 12 February 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Maintenance contract for 3500xL Genetic Analyzer
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust · updated 12 February 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
CSP25628 - Neon electroporator
UK Research and Innovation · updated 3 December 2025
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Genexus sequencing instruments and associated Bioinformatics support Maintenance Contract - Life Technologies
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust · updated 24 November 2025
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
CSP25500 - Quantstudio contract renewal
UK Research and Innovation · updated 23 October 2025
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
CSP25190 - QuantStudio PCR systems service contract
UK Research and Innovation · updated 18 July 2025
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Cell Sorter for Biological Sciences
University of Southampton · updated 4 April 2025
- Tender value
- £745,000
- Awards
- 1
UK Research and Innovation - Molecular Biology and Laboratory Chemicals Framework
UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED · updated 12 September 2024
- Tender value
- £16,000,000
- Awards
- 11
Supply of CaptureSelect™ C-tagXL Affinity Matrix
CENTRE FOR PROCESS INNOVATION LIMITED · updated 7 August 2024
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
UK Research and Innovation - Oligonucleotide Synthesis and Nucleic Acid Sequencing Services Framework
UK Research and Innovation · updated 25 June 2024
- Tender value
- £8,000,000
- Awards
- 12
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.
12 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.
13 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
Other manufacturing n.e.c.
14 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
16 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.
15 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
- Company name
Previous name: INVITROGEN LIMITED
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
16 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.
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.
Companies House, Charity Commission, OSCR and UK Sanctions List information is public-register data. BritDB reproduces and organises it with source-specific limits; official external links are kept on the dedicated source pages.