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title: "Provision of Engineering Services for DVLA Utilities and Drivers Programme"
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# Provision of Engineering Services for DVLA Utilities and Drivers Programme

Buyer: DRIVER & VEHICLE LICENSING AGENCY  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-b5fd17-39360ae1-a054-4353-9e1d-88046cbe40c8

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## Summary

The Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) based in Swansea, Wales, has awarded a contract for the provision of engineering services to BJSS Limited. The project, titled "Provision of Engineering Services for DVLA Utilities and Drivers Programme" and classified under the industry category of IT services (CPV code 72000000), aims to support the agency's change and operational programmes by integrating IT systems onto new, open-source, cloud-hosted platforms. The procurement stage is complete, with the contract period running from 1st April 2025 to 1st October 2026. This selective procurement was conducted through a call-off from a framework agreement, with a total contract value of £4,000,000.

This tender offers significant opportunities for businesses involved in IT consulting, software development, and support services to enhance their portfolio and reputation by collaborating with a major government agency. Companies capable of providing technically skilled and experienced resources, particularly those proficient in re-architecting IT systems and adhering to stringent technological standards, stand to benefit greatly. The contract is particularly suited for SMEs and VCSEs, aligning with DVLA’s requirement for flexible delivery and the provision of highly skilled engineering developers and support services.

## Notice

DVLA requires a supplier to provide a supply of specialised resource to support the delivery of the departments ambitious change and operational programmes. These programmes broadly looks to re-architect and re-engineer all IT systems onto new, open-source, cloud-hosted commodity IT platforms. These systems are to integrate together and into a number of common components DVLA is seeking a supplier to provide expertise and specialism to boost capacity and enhance capability in order to meet the outcomes of this requirement. We require a supplier who is able to help us to uplift our internal capability with a range of skills, whilst providing a short-term uplift in capacity to assist in the delivery of a number of technical deliverables. DVLA will take the lead responsibility for delivery of programmes, projects or individual pieces of work. The supplier will generally work as part of DVLA blended teams and will need to adhere to the DVLA technology standards (work will be agreed via individual Statements of Work). The DVLA have an extensive change pipeline and approved programmes of work to be delivered, and need to ensure that there is a mechanism in place to ensure that development capacity required for deliverer can be onboarded in a timely manner to meet delivery objectives This service provision needs to be able to provide technically skilled, experienced resource to deliver the technical solutions to meet DVLAs programmes of work. DVLA requires a supplier to provide a flexible delivery of highly skilled Engineering developers/support services to aide in the design, development and support of the Utilities and Drivers Programmes of work. The supplier may also be required to support the components developed, this will be dependent on the maturity of to product that the statement of work will be aligned to. This would cover 4th line support (primarily investigation and code changes) in-hours (between 9am and 6pm Monday to Friday) with potential for out-of-hours. All deliverables must be in line with DVLA solutions. The appointed supplier shall have the ability to deliver a mix of engineering services in line with deliverables, as set out in the individual Statements of Work as well as having the ability to interact and give guidance on best practice and react to technical challenges.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Contracts Finder |
| Latest notice | https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/66f87fc6-4a90-4314-87bb-cde491fa3bf8 |
| Notice type | Award Notice |
| Procurement type | Framework |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Selective |
| Procurement method details | Call-off from a framework agreement |
| Tender suitability | SME, VCSE |
| Awardee scale | Large |
| All stages | Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 2 Apr 2025 |
| Submission deadline | 29 Jan 2025 |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 27 Feb 2025 |
| Contract period | 31 Mar 2025 - 1 Oct 2026 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | £4,000,000 |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | £4,000,000 |
| Contracts value | Not specified |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Not specified |
| Awards status | Active |
| Contracts status | Not specified |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | DRIVER & VEHICLE LICENSING AGENCY |
| Locality | SWANSEA |
| Post town | Swansea |
| Postcode | SA6 7JL |
| Country | Wales |
| ITL 1 | TLL Wales |
| ITL 2 | TLL4 Mid and South West Wales |
| ITL 3 | TLL43 Swansea |
| Local authority | Swansea |
| Electoral ward | Mynydd-bach |
| Westminster constituency | Swansea West |
| Delivery location | TLL Wales |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | BJSS |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

### Codes

- 72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

## Release History

- 2 Apr 2025 at 11:20 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/66f87fc6-4a90-4314-87bb-cde491fa3bf8

## Documents

- https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/66f87fc6-4a90-4314-87bb-cde491fa3bf8
  2nd April 2025 - Awarded contract notice on Contracts Finder
- https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/95818a9d-d3a8-475a-ada6-7348b2254870
- https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/5cacd677-78e5-44d5-a652-d98a158a16d7

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