Official UK procurement notice
UK2 notice - Provision of Merchant Acquirer Services
Authority: Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionDVLA requires a Merchant Acquirer service to ensure service continuity and enable the acceptance of credit and debit card payments from card issuing banks.
The MA service must support payment options for a range of DVLA services, including (but not limited to):
- Electronic Vehicle Licensing (EVL)
- Personalised Registrations (Sales and Retain)
- Enforcement Penalty Payments
- Driver Licence services
- Tachograph Company and Driver Cards
- Trailer Registration
- Duplicate and Replacement Registration Documents
- Driver Customer Services
- Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) Recovery
- First Registration
- Online Enforcement Penalty Payment (OEPP)
- Registration of Number Plate Suppliers (RNPS)
CPV: Banking and investment services
How this framework works
From the published notice- Framework period
- 5 yrs · up to 7 yrs from 1 Dec 2028
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
- “UK2 notice - Provision of Merchant Acquirer Services” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
Competition for Banking and investment services (CPV 6610), and who usually turns up
Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency has too little published record in this market to describe on its own. No delivery region is published, so no market column stands beside whatever it has. This notice is a framework or DPS, so only frameworks and DPS are compared. Whole-market view: Banking and investment services (CPV 6610) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.
No supplier sizes published for this authority.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
No winner locations published for this authority. Local means a registered address in the delivery region.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
No decision dates published to compare.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.
Assess each lot i
What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1CPV 6610Estimate not published
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How many bids this lot may attract.
The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.
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 131 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid10%
2–320%
4–628%
7+42%
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Where the award price may land.
The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.
No comparable awards for this lot yet.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
Who could compete for this lot? i
Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
- Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in 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
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 2 Mar 2026, 11:52 GMT
- Last source update
- 8 Sept 2026, 12:44 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-084854- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-065f6bFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
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Timeline
2 Mar 2026 → 1 Dec 2028 · 5 dates- Planning notice published234 days ago2 Mar 2026, 11:52 GMT
- Tender notice expected178 days ago27 Apr 2026, 23:59 BST
- Latest notice published44 days ago8 Sept 2026, 12:44 BST
- Market engagement41 days ago11 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST
Please contact [email protected] to receive the questions and participate in this market engagement exercise.
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Contract starts1 Dec 2028
Notice history
5 events · 5 releases on Find a Tender · since 2 Mar 2026- Pipeline notice published2 Mar 2026, 11:52 GMTUK1
- Preliminary market engagement notice published2 Mar 2026, 14:06 GMTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published3 Mar 2026, 10:40 GMTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published24 Aug 2026, 11:40 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published8 Sept 2026, 12:44 BSTUK2
Published amendments (1)
Due to the timing of the publication of this RFI, together with the summer holiday period, we have decided to extend the engagement period until 11 September 2026. The contact details remain unchanged. Thank you for your continued engagement and participation.
Routine re-releases (5)
- 2026-03: 2 releases · 2 Mar 2026, 2 Mar 2026
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 (5)
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
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender