Department for Transport (DFT) tenders, awards, and pre-procurement notices.

Department for Transport (DfT) is a central government department, with commercial work spanning road, rail, aviation and maritime transport across the United Kingdom. The Group Commercial Directorate leads procurement for DfT from Great Minster House. National Highways, HS2 Ltd and Network Rail each run their own separate procurement as arm's-length bodies of DfT. The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency, the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency and the Maritime and Coastguard Agency also buy separately.

Over the past 5 years, most of DfT's contract awards have been in business services, architectural and engineering services and research and development.

Recent notices from Department for Transport (DFT)

Browse open tenders, awarded contracts, and pre-procurement documents from Department for Transport (DFT). Click on any notice to view more details.

What Department for Transport (DFT) buys

See a list of Department for Transport (DFT)'s top procurement categories by notice volume over the last five years.

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CategoriesCountValue
  1. Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
    468
    £5.1bn
  2. IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
    374
    £4.8bn
  3. Research and development services and related consultancy services
    293
    £4.5bn
  4. Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services
    282
    £5.4bn
  5. Software package and information systems
    121
    £92.0m
  6. Financial and insurance services
    106
    £139.6m
  7. Education and training services
    101
    £13.5m
  8. Transport services (excl. Waste transport)
    73
    £177.6m
  9. Repair and maintenance services
    71
    £18.4m
  10. Construction work
    61
    £33.2m

Unlock decision-makers at Department for Transport (DFT)

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