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Provision of a Laboratory Service for Testing of Drug Abuse/Misuse

Buyer: Department for Transport →

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BuyerDepartment for Transport
StatusClosed
Deadline13 Dec 2024
ValueValue not published
Published2 Oct 2024

What is being bought

DVLA requires a contract for the provision of Laboratory Services which will deliver urine drug testing and confirmation services accurately and confidentially to support the decision-making process within Drivers Medical Group (DMG).

Delivery location

UK

Categories

Laboratory services 71900000

Lot details

Lot 1

The Authority requires a contract which will deliver urine drug testing and confirmation services to assist the Authority in determining a drivers medical fitness to hold a driving licence. The successful supplier must be capable of accurately and confidentially carrying out both testing and confirmation services which will provide national coverage throughout Great Britain. The Contractor/ Supplier will be required to transport samples from Franchise Doctors across Great Britain to the Contractor's/Supplier's nominated laboratory/laboratories for analysis. Monitoring, collating and feeding back trend analysis data would be advantageous, in particular on drugs below cut offs, which when combined, could result in impairment. Additional information: The procurement documents are available from 07/10/24 for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at: https://dft.app.jaggaer.com/web/login.html

Statusactive
Value£2,400,000
Contract periodFrom 5 Jan 2026 to 4 Jan 2028

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Not publishedNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 71. The category anchor is Laboratory services (71900000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 716,8934 median · 31.4 average (2,531 of 6,893 with a bid count)4.2 average (2,807 of 6,893 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer0Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UK1,5574 median · 69.2 average (525 of 1,557 with a bid count)7.2 average (601 of 1,557 with named award suppliers)Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementYes
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byGPA
Submission policyNot published
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

No documents are published in the current source record.

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-0446a6
Latest release ID031540-2024
Latest release timestampWed Oct 02 2024 12:02:11 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsOpen procedure
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basis32014L0024
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: end2024-12-13T13:00:00Z
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: start2024-12-13T13:00:00Z
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailshttps://dft.app.jaggaer.com/web/login.html
Submission languagesen
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender valueNot published
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release3

Notice history

DateEventReference
2 Oct 2024tender031540-2024
14 Mar 2024tenderUpdate008242-2024
8 Mar 2024planning007451-2024

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

Complete current OCDS release JSON
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Complete JSON history (3 releases)
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