Official UK procurement notice
Transactions at Counter Services - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice
Authority: Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionScope – Procurement Description:
DVLA maintains the records of over 50 million drivers and about 47 million vehicles in the UK. We collect an estimated £8 billion a year in vehicle tax and process over 77 million transactions a year. Most transactions are digital, but we also offer an in-person channel for our customers who want or need it.
DVLA plans to re-procure the supply of in-person services to DVLA's customers on our behalf, which would include the ability for DVLA customers to transact in-person, with widespread coverage across England, Wales, Scotland & Northern Ireland and with wide-ranging opening hours to cater for a diverse range of customers.
The services could involve one or more third party suppliers being able to:
- Enable customers to carry out, in-person, a variety of DVLA transactions (including vehicle tax).
- Enable access to DVLA application forms.
- Accept a variety of payment methods.
- Complete transactional & payment reconciliation, and report routinely on transactional and financial data.
- Verify customer identity, including physical documentation checking.
- Exchange data securely with DVLA's systems to support customer transactions.
- Return customer documents to DVLA.
Contract value estimates are based on an assumed contract duration of up to seven years (potentially 5 years followed by two optional 1-year extensions).
However please note that the scope and contract duration are still being considered, so the service requirements, dates, and estimated values stated in this notice are provisional and subject to change.
CPV: Customer services · General public services · Provision of services to the community · Supporting services for the government
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedProcedure 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
- 23 May 2025, 09:23 BST
- Last source update
- 28 Jul 2026, 12:12 BST
- Authority reference
CRN-24-01- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-071167- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-052001Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- —
Timeline
23 May 2025 → 1 Jul 2028 · 5 dates- Planning notice published23 May 2025, 09:23 BST
- Tender notice expected119 days ago30 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
- Latest notice published92 days ago28 Jul 2026, 12:12 BST
- Market engagement5 days ago22 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
Further to our previous rounds of Preliminary Market Engagement for this contracting opportunity, DVLA would like to invite potential suppliers to take part in a further round in Autumn 2026, to further inform the design and development of the procurement strategy and requirements.
This round will involve:
- An online webinar (using MS Teams) on 14 October 2026 at 10:00, which will recap DVLA’s potential requirements and explain aspects of requirements which have developed further since the previous market engagement activities;
- 1-2-1 appointments on 22 October 2026, to discuss any questions; and
- A follow-up Survey, to gauge market views on a range of specific topics relevant to DVLA’s requirements.
To register your interest to attend the webinar, please email [email protected] by 12 October 2026. Please include the following details:
- Organisation name
- Organisation address
- A lead contact name and phone number
- Full name of each attendee (maximum 3 per organisation)
- Email address of each attendee
For details of DVLA’s previous Market Engagement activities for this opportunity, click the “related notices” link.
Please note that all dates and values stated in this notice are provisional and are subject to change whilst requirements remain in development.
- Today28 Oct 2026
- Contract starts1 Jul 2028, 00:00 BST
Notice history
6 events · 4 releases on Find a Tender · since 23 May 2025- Pipeline notice published23 May 2025, 09:23 BSTUK1
- Preliminary market engagement notice published12 Aug 2025, 09:33 BSTUK2
- Published value published: £128,000,00012 Aug 2025, 09:33 BST
- Preliminary market engagement notice published24 Nov 2025, 13:20 GMTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published28 Jul 2026, 12:12 BSTUK2
- Published value updated to £86,870,00028 Jul 2026, 12:12 BSTwas £128,000,000
Routine re-releases (4)
- 2025-05: 1 release · 23 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