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

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/eoi-vehicle-price-data-and-a-vehicle-identification-number-decoder-for-the-new-car-market-ocds-h6vhtk-07b7d4). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Notice summary:** 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.

## Key Information
- **Status:** PLANNING (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Department for Transport](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/department-for-transport-gov-d9)
- **Planned Pipeline Value:** £110,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Technical support services
- **Delivery Location:** Not published
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Official Documents:** 1 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/eoi-vehicle-price-data-and-a-vehicle-identification-number-decoder-for-the-new-car-market-ocds-h6vhtk-07b7d4#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-07b7d4`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** not shown for these lots; the published data do not support one.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/eoi-vehicle-price-data-and-a-vehicle-identification-number-decoder-for-the-new-car-market-ocds-h6vhtk-07b7d4#tl-md)

## 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.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** planning
- **CPV codes:** 71356300

- **Contract Period:** 01/01/2027 to 01/01/2028

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F106336-2026)
- **Last Source Update:** 2026-11-09T15:20:40.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-11-13T09:43:46.376Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-07b7d4
- **Licence:** Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.