Official UK procurement notice
DVLA Payment Gateway · UK public procurement notice
Authority: Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionDVLA is an Executive Agency of the Department for Transport (DfT). Its primary aims are to facilitate road safety and law enforcement by maintaining accurate registers of drivers and vehicle keepers, and to collect Vehicle Excise Duty (VED).
The Buyer requires a Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliant Payment Gateway that meets banking standards, aligns with customer needs, and integrates seamlessly with digital and telephony services. The service must be in place from 1st June 2027 to ensure business continuity.
The Payment Gateway must:
- Support multi-channel payments (online, telephony and Interactive Voice Recognition (IVR)
- Offer customisable hosted payment pages or iFrame
- Be usable on a variety of devices, including mobile, in both English and Welsh
- Provide a PCI-compliant authorisation and settlement platform
- Handle peak loads of 120 transactions per second
- Be available 24/7/365
- Include 24/7/365 incident support for Priority 1 and 2 incidents (at minimum)
This service will support the Buyer’s online and telephony channels for services including, but not limited to:
- Electronic Vehicle Licensing
- Duplicate V5C documents
- Vehicle Personalised Registrations
- Vehicle First Registration
- Trailer Registration
- Enforcement Penalty Payments
- Driving Licence Applications
- Digital Tachographs (Driver and Company)
CPV: Banking and investment services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 20 May 2025, 13:55 BST
- Last source update
- 3 Mar 2026, 10:33 GMT
- Authority reference
CRN/25/13- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-018803- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
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How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
20 May 2025 → 1 Jun 2027 · 5 dates- Planning notice published20 May 2025, 13:55 BST
- Tender notice expected334 days ago26 Nov 2025, 23:59 GMT
- Latest notice published237 days ago3 Mar 2026, 10:33 GMT
- Market engagement224 days ago16 Mar 2026, 23:59 GMT
Please contact [email protected] to receive the questions and participate in this market engagement exercise.
- Today27 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 216 days1 Jun 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
4 events · 4 releases on Find a Tender · since 20 May 2025- Pipeline notice published20 May 2025, 13:55 BSTUK1
- Preliminary market engagement notice published24 Jul 2025, 12:07 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published2 Mar 2026, 14:11 GMTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published3 Mar 2026, 10:33 GMTUK2
Routine re-releases (4)
- 2025-05: 1 release · 20 May 2025
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (4)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender