GLOBAL LIFE SCIENCES SOLUTIONS OPERATIONS UK LTD

Active
Company number 12063780Private limited companyIncorporated 2019

Key figures

£637,337,000-8.5%
Net assets 2025
-8.5%
Average annual change 2024–2025
0200 m400 m600 m800 m20242025

† GLOBAL LIFE SCIENCES SOLUTIONS OPERATIONS UK LTD filed these accounts on paper, so Companies House publishes them only as a scanned image. The figures for the years marked † were read automatically from the scan and kept only where the statements add up (for example net assets equal total equity), but a reading error is still possible — check the original accounts at Companies House.

Ratios

2025

Sector comparison

SIC 46760

Where the company stands among the 2,625 active companies whose first SIC code is 46760 (Wholesale of other intermediate products).

Turnover£161,087,000
Higher than 93% · median £18,762,288 among 128 that publish turnover
Net assets£637,337,000
Higher than 99% · median £85,569
Total assets£723,143,000
Higher than 99% · median £315,667
Cash£24,455,000
Higher than 99% · median £111,167
Employees1,102
Higher than 99% · median 2
Company age7.4 years
Younger than 60% · median 10.7 years
Largest in this sector by net assets
  1. GLOBAL LIFE SCIENCES SOLUTIONS OPERATIONS UK LTD£637.3m
  2. H YOUNG HOLDINGS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY£108.5m
  3. BEAVER-VISITEC INTERNATIONAL SALES LIMITED£82.8m
  4. ELLIOTT BAXTER & COMPANY LIMITED£78m
  5. INPOST DISTRIBUTION LIMITED£68.6m
  6. PATTONAIR LIMITED£64.6m
  7. H YOUNG (OPERATIONS) LIMITED£57.5m
  8. AQL INTERNATIONAL LTD£50.6m
  9. TLC (SOUTHERN) LIMITED£44.3m
  10. MAYFLEX UK LIMITED£40.4m

Positions are approximate. Figures come from each company's latest accounts; money and employee figures are compared only with companies that filed accounts in pounds for a period ending in the last two and a half years and are not dormant, so those groups are smaller than 2,625. The line on each bar marks the median.

Summary: GLOBAL LIFE SCIENCES SOLUTIONS OPERATIONS UK LTD

What kind of company is it?

GLOBAL LIFE SCIENCES SOLUTIONS OPERATIONS UK LTD is a private limited company registered with Companies House under company number 12063780. It was incorporated on 21 Jun 2019. Its status is active. The registered office is in Little chalfont (HP7). Its nature of business (SIC 2007) is wholesale of other intermediate products (46760), research and experimental development on biotechnology (72110).

How is the company doing financially?

The latest accounts in the database are for 2025 (period ending 31 Dec 2025); the company files full accounts. Turnover was £161,087,000. Profit for the year was £57,062,000. Net assets were £637,337,000, down 8.5% on the previous year. Cash at bank and in hand was £24,455,000. Total assets were £723,143,000 and total liabilities £61,434,000. The company had an average of 1,102 employees. Figures are available for 2 financial years (2024–2025).

How does it compare with similar companies?

Compared with 2,625 active companies whose first SIC code is 46760: By turnover it ranks higher than 93% of the 128 that publish turnover (median £18,762,288). By net assets it ranks higher than 99% of them (median £85,569). By total assets it ranks higher than 99% of them (median £315,667). By cash it ranks higher than 99% of them (median £111,167). By number of employees it ranks higher than 99% of them (median 2). It is younger than 60% of them (median age 10.7 years).

Does it supply the public sector?

The company is named as a supplier in 52 public contract award notices from 28 public sector buyers since 2019. Contracts awarded to it alone have a combined published value of £6.1m. Its most frequent buyer is UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED (9 contracts). 8 of the awards are shared with other suppliers, typically framework agreements. It is recorded as the recipient of 4 central government grants worth £104.8k, from Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.

What do public registers and reports show?

HMRC lists it as an importer of goods, mainly optical, medical and measuring instruments, machinery, electrical equipment. HMRC lists it as an exporter of goods, mainly optical, medical and measuring instruments, furniture and lighting, electrical equipment. In its latest payment practices report it took an average of 26 days to pay suppliers, and 10% of invoices were not paid within agreed terms. Its gender pay gap report for 2025/26 shows median hourly pay for women 16% lower than for men.

Who runs and controls the company?

One person with significant control is registered.

When are its next filings due?

The next accounts are due by 30 Sep 2027. The next confirmation statement is due by 4 Jul 2027.

Filed accounts2024–2025
2024 †2025 †
Turnover158,451,000161,087,000
Profit for the year15,116,00057,062,000
Cash at bank and in hand69,905,00024,455,000
Total assets778,897,000723,143,000
Total liabilities60,963,00061,434,000
Net assets / total equity696,202,000637,337,000
Average number of employees1,0601,102

A dash (—) means no accounts were filed for that year or the item is not in the accounts; 0 is a zero stated in the accounts. Small companies usually file only a balance sheet, so the profit and loss account is often missing.

Public contracts

52 contracts

GLOBAL LIFE SCIENCES SOLUTIONS OPERATIONS UK LTD is named as a supplier in 52 public contract award notices from 28 public sector buyers since 2019. The 41 contracts awarded to it alone with a published value add up to £6.1m. 8 awards are shared with other suppliers and not counted in that total.

Contracts per year
Main buyers28
UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED
9 contracts · £604.1k
CENTRE FOR PROCESS INNOVATION LIMITED
7 contracts · £2.1m
UK Research and Innovation
6 contracts · £161.4k
THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM
4 contracts · £342.2k
UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD
2 contracts · £1.1m
Contracts
  1. CSP26921 - AKTA upgrade parts‡UK Research and Innovation · £19,870 · runs until Dec 2026
  2. Chromatography System‡NHS Blood and Transplant · £291,955 · runs until Sep 2028
  3. Biacore 8K v2 Full Coverage Service Maintenance AgreementJOHN INNES CENTRE · £27,400 · runs until Jul 2027
  4. Amersham Typhoon IPCardiff University · £76,883 · runs until Jun 2031
  5. CSP26545 - Biacore Service contract 2026‡UK Research and Innovation · £18,100 · runs until Jun 2027
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  1. CSP26279 - AKTA flux for Ingo‡UK Research and Innovation · £22,938 · runs until Nov 2026
  2. Purchase and maintenance of Chromatography System‡Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency · £140,000 · runs until Feb 2031
  3. Protein Purification System‡Northumbria University
  4. Protein Purification SystemNorthumbria University at Newcastle
  5. 250262 - Contract for Supply, Delivery, Installation & Commissioning of a Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) System.‡Queen's University Belfast · runs until Jan 2029
  6. CSP25652 - AKTA upgrade‡UK Research and Innovation · £22,751
  7. FPLC For Protein PurificationASTON UNIVERSITY · £75,000 · runs until Nov 2027
  8. Environmental Decontamination 2026‡SUPPLY CHAIN COORDINATION LIMITED · shared by 3 suppliers, up to £28,000,000 in total · runs until Mar 2028
  9. CSP25158 - Service Contract Renewal - Full Care Entitlement for Biacore BCT100‡UK Research and Innovation · £17,500
  10. Formulation machine‡THE PIRBRIGHT INSTITUTE · £154,360
  11. Purchase of Liquid Nano particle machine‡Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) · £300,000 · runs until Dec 2029
  12. GB-Cambridge: UKRI-4514 AKTA Pure 25 System‡UK Research and Innovation · £60,287
  13. UKRI- GSS24870 Imaging Instrument Competitive quotation‡UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED · £34,046
  14. GB-Cambridge: UKRI-4172‡UK Research & Innovation · £103,287
  15. BE24132 - Biacore Service ContractUK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED · £16,900
  16. GSS24033 - FETAL BOVINE SERUMUK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED · £27,484
  17. Protein Purification SystemDefence Science and Technology Laboratory · £42,292
  18. The Supply, Delivery, Installation and Warranty of a Western Imaging Machine with FluorescenceUNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX(THE) · £38,800 · runs until Oct 2028
  19. 2947 - Oligonucleotide Synthesis and Purification EquipmentCENTRE FOR PROCESS INNOVATION LIMITED · £2,000,000 · runs until Sep 2027
  20. Biacore serviceUK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED · £16,200
  21. Contract for the Supply and Installation of an ÄKTA Pure 25L to the University of BirminghamTHE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM · £58,568
  22. 2850-S - GoSilico SoftwareCENTRE FOR PROCESS INNOVATION LIMITED · £65,000
  23. Two (2) Fast Protein Liquid Chromatology (FPLC) Systems‡APHA · £80,388
  24. Supply of Microbial & Mammalian Fermenters, Bioreactors and Associated Analytical EquipmentCENTRE FOR PROCESS INNOVATION LIMITED · shared by 2 suppliers, up to £45,000,000 in total · 3 lots
  25. 2339 - Framework for the Provision of Process ConsumablesCENTRE FOR PROCESS INNOVATION LIMITED · shared by 5 suppliers, up to £213,477 in total · runs until Dec 2026
  26. Contract for the Supply and Installation of an Amersham Typhoon 5 to the University of BirminghamTHE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM · £94,750
  27. CS22563 - Fluor SystemUK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED · £33,069
  28. Contract for the Supply and Installation of an AKTA Pure package to the University of BirminghamTHE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM · £42,070
  29. Provision of Mass Spectrometry and Chromatography Equipment including Associated Servicing, Maintenance and RepairsAPUC LIMITED · shared by 17 suppliers, up to £25,000,000 in total
  30. Call off Agreement fo Cell Manipulation: Cell Fusion Instruments/Electroporation‡NHS BLOOD AND TRANSPLANT (NHSBT) · £100,000
  31. GB-Cambridge: UKRI-2324 Purchase of Protein Purification Systems‡UK Research & Innovation · £101,611
  32. 2274 - Consumables for Molecular BiologyCENTRE FOR PROCESS INNOVATION LIMITED · shared by 18 suppliers, up to £3,900,000 in total
  33. 2274 - Ongoing Supply of Molecular Biology Consumables‡CENTRE FOR PROCESS INNOVATION LIMITED · shared by 13 suppliers, up to £31,200,000 in total · 8 lots
  34. Continuous chromatography equipment for the purification of RNA vaccines and therapeuticsUNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD · £184,586
  35. Ongoing Supply of Specialist FiltersCENTRE FOR PROCESS INNOVATION LIMITED · shared by 7 suppliers, up to £500,000 in total
  36. Equipment including Liquid Chromatography and protein/vector purification systems for the use in the manufacture of gene therapy drugs/treatments for research…‡UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD · £950,000
  37. To supply and fit 1 off VIA Freeze Duo / VFD_30006CELL THERAPY CATAPULT LIMITED · £53,291
  38. 2 X AKTA GoBIRKBECK COLLEGE · £63,743
  39. Chromatography SystemUniversity of Bristol · £34,278
  40. Contract for the Supply and Installation of an AKTA pure package to the University of BirminghamTHE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM · £146,824
  41. National Microbiology Framework - Lot 2: Research and Development Goods and Services‡Public Health England · shared by 69 suppliers, up to £1,500,000,000 in total
  42. UKRI - RE20713 - VIA Freeze Controlled Rate FreezerUK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED · £25,312
  43. UKRI RE20490 ÄKTA pure 25 M‡UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED · £49,310
  44. UKRI RE20435 Fast Performance Liquid Chromatography and Consumables‡UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED · £101,099
  45. 1LGY-Goods-Laboratory Equipment‡NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY · £56,846
  46. Fetal Bovine Serum‡UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED · £300,699
  47. Call off Agreement to Cell Manipulation: Cell Fusion Instruments/Electroporation‡Nhs Bt · £100,000

From contract award notices on Contracts Finder (since 2016) and Find a Tender (since 2021), published by the Cabinet Office under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Values are as published by the buyer and usually cover the whole contract term; the total leaves out awards shared between several suppliers, where the published figure is a ceiling for all of them, placeholder values and single figures of £1 billion or more. Notices marked ‡ do not state a company number and were linked by an exact match on the registered name. Contracts below the publication thresholds and those of devolved buyers that publish elsewhere are not included.

Government grants

4 grants

GLOBAL LIFE SCIENCES SOLUTIONS OPERATIONS UK LTD is recorded as the recipient of 4 central government grants since 2021, together worth £104.8k.

Grants
  1. MW-ATTC - RunwayDepartment for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · £33,125 · UKRI - Innovate - Scheme 21/22
  2. Northern Alliance ATTCDepartment for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · £40,366 · UKRI - Innovate - Scheme 21/22
  3. A coordinated strategy to scale-up advanced therapies for patient in ManchesterDepartment for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · £26,257 · UKRI - Innovate - Scheme 21/22
  4. Standard Approach to atMP tissue ColLEction (Sample)Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · £5,040 · UKRI - Innovate - Scheme 21/22

From the Government Grants Register published by the Cabinet Office (financial years 2016/17 onwards, Open Government Licence v3.0). It covers grants from central government departments and their agencies where the register states the recipient's company number and the recipient name matches this company; grants from local authorities, lottery distributors and devolved governments are not included.

Statutory reporting

Payment practices1 Jan 2026 – 30 Jun 2026
Average time taken to pay invoices
26 days
Invoices not paid within agreed terms
10%
Member of a payment code
No
  • Within 30 days 70%
  • 31 to 60 days 12%
  • After 60 days 18%
Earlier periods (6)
Period ending
Days to pay
Within 30 days
Late
31 Dec 2025
27
67%
5%
30 Jun 2025
26
69%
8%
31 Dec 2024
26
69%
8%
30 Jun 2024
24
73%
9%
31 Dec 2023
21
77%
10%
30 Jun 2023
23
79%
11%

View the latest report on GOV.UK

Gender pay gap2025/26
Median hourly pay
women 16% lower
Mean hourly pay
women 16.9% lower
Median bonus pay
women 34% lower
Employer size
1000 to 4999 employees
Lower pay quarter58.2% womenLower middle43.3% womenUpper middle37.8% womenUpper pay quarter31.6% women
Earlier years (5)
Year
Median hourly pay
Mean hourly pay
2024/25
women 21.2% lower
women 18.3% lower
2023/24
women 16.5% lower
women 19.2% lower
2022/23
women 16.4% lower
women 18.5% lower
2021/22
women 12.6% lower
women 17.8% lower
2020/21
women 15.1% lower
women 18% lower

A positive gap means women's average hourly pay is lower than men's across the whole employer; it is not a comparison of pay for the same work. View on the Gender pay gap service

Figures the company reported itself to the government's Check payment practices service, Gender pay gap service and Modern slavery statement registry (Open Government Licence v3.0). Only large companies and employers with 250 or more staff have to report, so most companies have nothing here.

Registers and licences

International trade‡

Listed by HMRC as an importer of goods in 12 of the last 12 months on record, most recently August 2026. Main goods: optical, medical and measuring instruments, machinery, electrical equipment, furniture and lighting and vehicles.

Listed by HMRC as an exporter of goods in 12 of the last 12 months on record, most recently August 2026. Main goods: optical, medical and measuring instruments, furniture and lighting, electrical equipment, vehicles and organic chemicals.

From HMRC's monthly lists of importers and exporters. Traders can ask to be left off the lists, so absence does not mean a company does not trade.

Sources: Charity Commission for England and Wales, Care Quality Commission, Home Office and HM Revenue & Customs, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Entries marked ‡ come from lists that do not state a company number and were linked by an exact match on the registered name.

History

4 events
  1. Financial year 2025 endedAccounts: turnover £161.1m, net assets £637.3m, 1,102 employees
  2. Financial year 2024 endedAccounts: turnover £158.5m, net assets £696.2m, 1,060 employees
  3. Pall European Holdings Limited registered as a person with significant control
  4. Company incorporatedPrivate limited company

Dates as recorded at Companies House: incorporation, name changes, officer appointments and resignations, current persons with significant control, and the end of each financial year with figures in the database. Former persons with significant control are not listed.