Awarded contract

Provision of Personalised Registration Auction Services

Details

Buyer: Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency
Supplier(s): JOHN PYE & SONS LIMITED
Value: £8,720,000
Duration: 6 years
Topic: Electronic auction services
Published: 16 April 2025
Source: uk:contracts_finder

Tender description

The provision of personalised registration auction services on a national (UK wide) basis. The services to be provided are: 1. Timed Online Auctions and Ancillary Services; 2. DVLA auction marketing and Associated Promotional Activity; and 3. Hosting, design, content and functionality of bilingual (English & Welsh) website www.dvlaauction.co.uk The Contract is for an initial term of 3 years and 6 months which shall be comprised of: - a period of 6 months for the delivery of an Implementation Plan (termed the "Transition & Implementation Period"), followed by - the period commencing from the end of the Transition & Implementation Period until the expiry of the initial term and any extensions granted by the Buyer. The Buyer reserves the right to offer two separate extensions of 12 months each, to provide for a maximum of two further years. The maximum Contract duration (including optional extensions) will therefore be 5 years and 6 months (i.e. 3.5 +1 +1 years). No Timed Online Auctions (and therefore no revenue generation) will take place under this Contract during the Transition and Implementation Period.

Timeline

Completed: Award date1 April 2025
Completed: Award published16 April 2025
Current notice
Next: Contract expiry date30 September 2030in 4 years

About the buyer

The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency runs driver and vehicle registration services, and buys as a central government agency through a virtual procurement team shared across the Department for Transport family. Much of its buying follows Cabinet Office guidance and pan-government arrangements for office solutions, temporary staff, travel and uniforms. Strategic contracts cover categories such as ICT, telephony, estates, print and mail, and enforcement work like wheel-clamping.

Over the past 5 years, most of Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency's contract awards have been in IT services, software and information systems and business services.

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

Job title	Phone number	Work email
Head of Procurement	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@driver-and-vehicle-licensing-agency.gov
Commercial Director	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@driver-and-vehicle-licensing-agency.gov
Procurement Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@driver-and-vehicle-licensing-agency.gov
Category Lead	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@driver-and-vehicle-licensing-agency.gov
Senior Buyer	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@driver-and-vehicle-licensing-agency.gov
Contracts Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@driver-and-vehicle-licensing-agency.gov