Rankings of the largest cryogenic companies sort industrial gas producers by revenue. Useful if you are buying bulk nitrogen by the tanker. Useless for deciding who will still stock your straw format in five years, or who picks up when an alarm sounds on a Sunday.
What a tender audit should actually ask
- Certification. Certified to ISO 9001:2015, and by which body? Ask for the certificate number and verify it. Cryolab holds it through BSI.
- Traceability. Can Certificates of Analysis be supplied on request, with batch numbers tied to delivery notes? For straws and vitrification devices, this decides whether a recall is manageable.
- Distribution status. For branded consumables, is the supplier authorised? Cryolab is the exclusive UK and Ireland distributor for CryoBioSystems, which means a direct line to the manufacturer on technical queries.
- Stock versus lead time. Which lines are UK stock, in writing, per item.
- Servicing. Who services vessels once the warranty ends, and how quickly.
- Continuity. How long has the business traded, and is there a named technical contact?
Score on these, not on brand size
A supplier trading since 2000 with four decades in the IVF sector answers those questions differently from a marketplace listing, and the answers are checkable.
The Cryolab products hub shows the range those questions can be put against directly.
