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Published 9 Nov 2026, 15:20 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

EOI - Vehicle price data and a vehicle identification number decoder for the new car market

Official notice
Competition analysis

Authority: Department for Transport (Central government)

ServicesBelow thresholdSME suitableVCSE suitable
Sectors: Architecture & Engineering (71) Delivery: Delivery location not published
Planned pipeline value£110,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 1 yrends 1 Jan 2028 · starts 1 Jan 2027
Notice summaryFrom the published notice

The Department for Transport is inviting expressions of interest for a potential future procurement of 2 data products: One includes the purchase of granular vehicle pricing data, providing information on historic vehicle prices. This will also detail information related to vehicle incentives and discounts that may be offered by manufacturers, dealership or government, as part of a financing or promotional deal.

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The Department for Transport is inviting expressions of interest for a potential future procurement of 2 data products: One includes the purchase of granular vehicle pricing data, providing information on historic vehicle prices. This will also detail information related to vehicle incentives and discounts that may be offered by manufacturers, dealership or government, as part of a financing or promotional deal. The second is a VIN decoder. A VIN is a unique code which is used by automobile manufacturers to identify individual vehicles. DfT is looking to procure a decoder that, when provided with a unique VIN, will provide information covering the manufacturer, make, model, trim, model year and plant assembly location.

CPV: Technical support services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 1 yrSMEVCSE
Contract period: 1 Jan 2027 – 1 Jan 2028 (1 yr)
Eligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligible
71356300 Technical support services

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published

How Department for Transport buys Engineering-related scientific and technical services (CPV 7135), and who usually turns up

Department for Transport’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Engineering-related scientific and technical services (CPV 7135) →

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How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bid
This buyerDepartment for Transport · division 71
The marketEngineering-related scientific and technical services (CPV 7135)
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
i

The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.

Buyer: 6 of 20 known-size awards · market: CPV 7135 · Greater London (authority’s region), n=53
30%47%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
i

Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in Greater London (authority’s region).

Buyer: 1 of 1 known-location awards · market: CPV 7135 · Greater London (authority’s region), n=39
1 of 131%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.

How long to a decision?
i
Buyer: 7 decided notices · market: CPV 7135 · UK-wide, n=45
24 days28 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 24 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.

Buyer: exactly 18 of 23 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 7135 · Greater London (authority’s region), n=65
78%63%

Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.

How many bids did past lots attract?

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This buyer8 lots with bid counts · broad CPV 71
13% had one bid
The market8 lots with bid counts · CPV 7135 · Greater London (authority’s region)
0% had one bid
% of lots with a published bid count: this buyer (8) / the market (8) · select a colour for counts
1 bid13% / 0%
Buyer: 1 of 8 lots with published bid counts. Market: 0 of 8 lots with published bid counts.
2–30% / 25%
Buyer: 0 of 8 lots with published bid counts. Market: 2 of 8 lots with published bid counts.
4–638% / 75%
Buyer: 3 of 8 lots with published bid counts. Market: 6 of 8 lots with published bid counts.
7+50% / 0%
Buyer: 4 of 8 lots with published bid counts. Market: 0 of 8 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

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This buyer6 lots with estimate and award · broad CPV 71
33% below estimate
The market62 lots with estimate and award · CPV 7135 · UK-wide
48% below estimate
% of lots with an estimate and award: this buyer (6) / the market (62) · select a colour for counts
Below estimate33% / 48%
Buyer: 2 of 6 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 30 of 62 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%67% / 27%
Buyer: 4 of 6 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 17 of 62 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate0% / 24%
Buyer: 0 of 6 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 15 of 62 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
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Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list

Lot #1CPV 713512 monthsSME suitablePublished estimate£110k
Expected competition
i

Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 182 past lots.

—No model forecast yet10% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 182 similar lots
1 bid10%
18 of 182 similar past lots received 1 bid (10%).
2–320%
37 of 182 similar past lots received 2–3 (20%).
4–632%
59 of 182 similar past lots received 4–6 (32%).
7+37%
68 of 182 similar past lots received 7+ (37%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 5 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

No comparable awards for this lot yet.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £110k, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

Who has supplied this buyer on similar work?
i

No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.

Who could compete for this lot?
i

Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.

About this data
  • Estimates, labelled. The price range, possible competitors and earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards, not published facts, win chances or price advice. The buyer’s own record and the wider market are shown apart, never mixed.
  • Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0, updated through the day and rebuilt nightly. Not every figure uses both feeds, and each one shows how many records it rests on: see the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Planned procurement
Procurement threshold
Below threshold
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
9 Nov 2026, 15:20 GMT
Last source update
9 Nov 2026, 15:20 GMT
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-106336
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Technical support services
Delivery area
Not published
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07b7d4 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

9 Nov 2026 → 1 Jan 2027 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published3 days ago
    9 Nov 2026, 15:20 GMT
  2. Today
    13 Nov 2026
  3. Market engagementin 10 days
    23 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT

    For responses to the EOI please can suppliers respond via the PQQ on the e-sourcing system Jaggaer. If your organisation is not currently registered onto the e-portal platform: In order to submit a response for this opportunity, you will need to register on the DfT e-sourcing portal via dft.app.jaggaer.com/web/login.html ↗

    The following link will take you to the PQQ on Jaggaer: dft.app.jaggaer.com/go/0185307901A1C0D68528 ↗ or by searching for “pqq_858

    Please could you confirm your interest and your response to the EOI via the PQQ on the e-sourcing system Jaggaer only by the deadline 12:00 23rd November 2026.

  4. Contract startsin 48 days
    1 Jan 2027

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    9 Nov 2026, 15:20 GMT
    UK2

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

Department for Transport

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-PPON: PLTC-5358-LTWZ Great Minster House, 33 Horseferry Road, London, London, SW1P 4DRContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure