Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

GOV.UK register: Executive agencyCentral governmentSouth West EnglandBristol

Official UK PPONPTMM-2614-YJDV

Open now3next deadline 5 Oct 2026
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Tenders you can still bid for.

Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.

Notices, last 12 months91+44% vs prior 12 months (63)
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Notices published in the last 12 months.

Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.

Typical bids per lot241.2% single-bid · 17 bid reports
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.

Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.

Based on 17 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

Top-3 supplier share13%of 135 awarded procedures · 114 suppliers
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How much of this buyer’s work goes to its three most frequent suppliers.

Share of its awarded tenders that name at least one of the top three. Each tender is counted once.

135 awarded tenders, 114 different suppliers.

Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.

All awards we hold.

Contracts ending ≤18 months2510 within 6 months
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.

Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.

A likely retender, not a certain one.

Published award value, 24m£296mnet · on 102 of 125 single-supplier awards · top 5 = 66%
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.

Sum of award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.

Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.

Open notices

3 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build

NoticeDeadlineDays leftPublished value
GVTS & Enforcement sites equipment upgrade5 Oct 20265d£5,500,000
Under Vehicle Inspection Equipment 20266 Oct 20266d£205,000

All 3 open notices for this authority →

What they buy
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What kind of work is bought here.

Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.

Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each

How they buy
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How work here is packaged.

Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.

Last 24 months · 154 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim

Commercial tool
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How work here is packaged.

Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.

  • Contract 99% (152 notices)
  • Framework 1% (2 notices)
Procedure route
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Which procedures buyers here use.

Notices by the procedure they declare: open, selective, limited or direct. Open and selective are competitions; limited and direct are not.

  • Limited / restricted 47% (73 notices)
  • Open 17% (26 notices)
  • Direct award 16% (25 notices)
  • Route not published 16% (24 notices)
  • Selective 4% (6 notices)
Typical bids per lot
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.

Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.

Based on 17 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

2robust · n=1741.2% of lots drew a single bid
Deadline → award
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How long this buyer takes to decide after bids close.

Middle value in days from deadline to first award notice, on this buyer’s own tenders.

Based on 13 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

42 daysrobust · n=13
Notice amendments
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.

Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.

Based on 154 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

043 of 154 notices amended
Award vs estimate
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Do this buyer’s awards land above or below its own estimates.

Each lot’s published estimate against its award, on this buyer’s competitions, like for like.

Based on 12 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

Last 24 months.

0% at estimaterobust · n=12

Who wins here
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Which suppliers win the most here.

Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.

All published awards naming a supplier · ranked by distinct procedures, not pounds · panel and call-off entries inflate award records

SupplierProceduresShareLast 24mAward recordsLast activity
MILLBROOK PROVING GROUND LIMITEDframework/DPS on 185.9%6815 Jun 2026
Gartner UK Limited64.4%6610 Sept 2026
BJSS Limited43%241 Sept 2025
Pearson Professional Assessments Limited32.2%3320 May 2025
Horiba Mira Ltdframework/DPS on 132.2%3317 Jul 2026
Driver and Vehicle Standards Angency32.2%3322 Sept 2026
Mahle Powertrain Ltdframework/DPS on 132.2%2323 Apr 2026
HAYS SPECIALIST RECRUITMENT LIMITED21.5%2213 May 2025

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 13% of 135 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 114 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards — not a statement of preference.

Published award value (24m)
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.

Sum of award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.

Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.

£296mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 102 of 125 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 66%.
Typical single-supplier award (24m)
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What one of this buyer’s contracts is usually worth.

Middle value of the same awards as the total above.

Last 24 months.

£99k middle valuerobust · n=102Middle half £35k–£468k; 20 duplicate amounts excluded from both figures (heuristic for republished framework ceilings).
Largest published awards
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The biggest published awards.

Awards to a single supplier with a published value, largest first, so you can check the totals against the notice.

A repeated framework total can appear here. Open the notice to check.

SupplierAwardedTermPublished value
Driver Services Platform Digital DeliveryKainos Software Limited——£73,000,000 †
DVSA Publishing Services with The Highway Code and The Highway Code for Northern IrelandThe Stationery Office8 Sept 20265 yrs · up to 7 yrs£40,000,000
≈ £8.0m/yr
Test Engine and Test Content Management (TETCM) - ModificationPearson Professional Assessments Limited——£30,000,000 †
Theory Test Assessment PlatformPearson Professional Assessments Ltd (Pearson Vue)——£26,000,000 †
Theory Test Assessment PlatformPearson Professional Assessments Ltd (Pearson Vue)——£26,000,000 †

Contracts ending
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.

Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.

A likely retender, not a certain one.

Published end dates only · 62 of 143 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast

Soonest 10 of 25 contracts ending within 18 months.

Recent procedures

Latest 50 of 178 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
Compressed Air Systems Servicing & Inspection 2026Repair and maintenance servicesOpen26 Aug 2026£80,000
K280022574 tender_6262 - ServiceNow Managed Services 2025IT services: consultingAwarded / complete24 Sept 2026£10,000,000
Penetration testing/IT Health Checks 2026Computer audit and testing servicesAwarded / complete22 Sept 2026—
Penetration Testing/IT Health Checks 2026Computer audit and testing servicesAwarded / complete17 Sept 2026—
Calibration, Repair and Maintenance of DVSA Weigh Pads for Enforcement and IVA 2026Calibration servicesAwarded / complete14 Sept 2026£600,000
Research Services – FinanceSubscription servicesAwarded / complete10 Sept 2026—
DVSA Publishing Services with The Highway Code and The Highway Code for Northern IrelandBusiness services: lawAwarded / complete9 Sept 2026£40,000,000
Carriage of hazardous chemicals and dangerous goods trainingEducation and training servicesAwarded / complete26 Aug 2026£79,000
Secure Waste ManagementPaper collecting servicesOpen21 Aug 2026£100,000
Water ServicesAwarded / complete14 Aug 2026—
PSN AWS Connectivity 2026Awarded / complete14 Aug 2026—
Carriage of Hazardous Chemicals and Dangerous Goods trainingEducation and training servicesAwarded / complete10 Aug 2026£65,000
TramLink NottinghamAwarded / complete10 Aug 2026—
Inelo Basic Tachoscan 2026Awarded / complete4 Aug 2026—
Training and Testing Audit Services ReprocurementAuditing servicesPlanned3 Aug 2026£3,606,290
PPM ToolAwarded / complete3 Aug 2026—
Calibration, Repair of existing BM, Tecalemit and AVL equipment plus maintenance of legacy equipmentAwarded / complete31 Jul 2026—
ADAS AEB Programme 2026-27Mechanical and electrical engineering servicesAwarded / complete17 Jul 2026—
Media Strategy, Planning and Buying ServicesAwarded / complete15 Jul 2026—
Level 3 Diploma in Vehicle Maintenance and RepairEducation and training servicesOpen13 Jul 2026£448,000

Search all 178 procedures for this authority →

Data coverage & method
  • Source: Find a Tender OCDS releases; mixed PCR 2015 / Procurement Act 2023 history — no legal-regime label is applied.
  • Counts are procedures (one notice family), not lots. Authority cluster = canonical buyer plus beneficiary and procuring-entity roles.
  • Published procedure values exist on a minority of notices; their lifetime sum (£1.5bn, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
  • Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 127 award records on 117 procedures (125 to a single canonical supplier, 2 multi-supplier). 86 values come from the contract record when the award carried none.
  • Bid counts, deadline-to-award, amendments and award-vs-estimate come from the nightly buyer analytics row; each figure’s own method and sample is behind its , the long form on Methodology.
  • Contract end dates: 62 of 143 published contracts carry a period end; 25 end within 18 months, 10 within 6.
  • Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (20 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)

Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.

GB-FTS-100548GB-FTS-117183GB-FTS-120231GB-FTS-125580GB-FTS-127154GB-FTS-129432GB-FTS-140682GB-FTS-144016GB-FTS-144786GB-FTS-147897GB-FTS-148809GB-FTS-152271GB-FTS-15949GB-FTS-172637GB-FTS-180063GB-FTS-63727GB-FTS-74528GB-FTS-87903GB-FTS-95751GB-FTS-95753

Canonical page id: GB-PPON-PTMM-2614-YJDV