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# In-Service Conformity Light-Duty Emissions Testing

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/in-service-conformity-light-duty-emissions-testing-ocds-h6vhtk-02967c). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Department for Transport: "In-Service Conformity Light-Duty Emissions Testing". Published status: complete. Published Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Department for Transport](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/department-for-transport-gov-d9)
- **Published Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Engineering services
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Awarded Value:** £430,328 (exc. VAT, 1 contract)
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-02967c`

## 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:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **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/in-service-conformity-light-duty-emissions-testing-ocds-h6vhtk-02967c#tl-md)

## Description
The Vehicle Certification Agency (VCA), with the understanding of the Swedish Transport Agency (STA), invites submissions from Suppliers for the undertaking of light-duty vehicle emissions testing for the purposes of the “New In-Service Conformity (ISC) Methodology”, introduced in Annex II (Part B) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1151, as amended by 2018/1832 (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/GA/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32018R1832).
In this Contract, the Supplier will be required to source, examine and test vehicles in accordance with this methodology, for a minimum of two ISC annual programmes (2020 and 2021) with an option to extend the contract to cover a third annual programme (2022) subject to the agreement of all parties.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 71300000
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Description:** A review by the European Commission of the historical light-duty emissions In-Service Conformity (ISC) tests, previously only performed by the manufacturers, revealed that very few ‘fails’ were reported to type approval authorities. This is despite k...

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** In-Service Conformity Light-Duty Emissions Testing (active)
  - Award id: `003860-2021-VCA0002-1`
  - Supplier(s): **AVL Powertrain UK Limited**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-6844`
  - Value: £430,328 † (exc. VAT)

> † value taken from the contract record; the award notice published none.

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** In-Service Conformity Light-Duty Emissions Testing (active)
  - Signed Value: £430,328
  - Signed Date: 24/02/2021

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F003860-2021)
- **Last Source Update:** 2021-02-25T22:56:05.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-27T19:03:17.290Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-02967c