Spend profile

Award value by month — rolling 24 months. Line shows 12-month moving average.

£512.6m
12 m spend
£217.3m
Prior 12 m
+136%
YoY change
£113k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
DfT, Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£126m£252m£378m£504mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

Forward flow — planned notices through to completed awards in the last 90 days.

Planned

44

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

0

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

5

£1.3m

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

How this buyer procures — by procedure, instrument, and publication source.

Contract type

Unspecified598 · £1.1bn
services60 · £991.0m
goods9 · £46.7m

Instrument type

contract663 · £2.0bn
call off4 · £133.3m
Source:Contracts Finder: 567Find a Tender: 100

Awarded contracts · 175 live

All contracts with a published award notice where DfT, Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency is the contracting authority.

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Top suppliers · by total award value

Ranked by cumulative awarded value. YoY = last 12 months vs prior 12 months.

1
DE
1 contract · 11 Feb
£316.0m
2
DA
£246.0mest.
3
EP
1 contract · 02 Feb
£133.2m
4
MF
2 contracts · 29 Nov06 Jan
£81.9m
5
BB
2 contracts · 31 May
£72.3m
6
PO
3 contracts · 15 Dec
£65.9m
7
AG
1 contract · 31 Jul
£56.0m
8
XL
1 contract · 09 Jul
£29.3m
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···
216 other suppliers
long tail · 51 SMEs
£300.7m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Business, legal, advisory
54 contracts
£516.0m
25%
Postal, telecoms
4 contracts
£390.7m
19%
Financial, insurance
12 contracts
£292.4m
14%
Other
36 contracts
£246.8m
12%
Repair & maintenance
8 contracts
£227.5m
11%
Other community services
4 contracts
£133.3m
7%
IT services, software
158 contracts
£117.3m
6%
Printed matter
3 contracts
£111.1m
5%

Activity heatmap

Award volume by CPV division × month. Darker = more £ awarded.

Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Business, legal, advisory
0
0
0
0
0
Postal, telecoms
0
316
Financial, insurance
Other
0
0
Repair & maintenance
Other community services
133
LessMore (£m awarded)

Commercial & procurement leadership

Who signs off contracts, owns frameworks and runs SME engagement.

Coming Q3 2026

Curated leadership roster

Chief commercial officer, framework owners, SME lead and clinical sign-offs per buyer. Top-50 contracting authorities first, rolling out by sector.

Modifications · 1 in 90 d

Variations logged under Procurement Act 2023 s.74. Above-tolerance modifications attract a flag.

Coming Q3 2026

Per-modification s.74 classification + tolerance flagging

We see 1 notice tagged with a modification flag in the last 90 d. Next phase parses each one against PA 2023 s.74 limbs and surfaces above-tolerance flags.

Compliance & transparency

FOIA performance, statutory disclosures & prompt payment.

Coming Q4 2026

FOIA & prompt-payment ingestion

Notice timeliness and modification flags are derivable today. FOIA refusal rate, prompt-payment %, KPI reporting and net-zero plans need new data sources — work scoped, ingestion next quarter.

SME & social value

Performance against Cabinet Office targets & PPN 06/20.

21%
SME supplier share
target 33%
114
SME award rows
11
VCSE award rows
224
Distinct suppliers
⚠ Below target. SME supplier share at 21% vs Cabinet Office target of 33%.

Peer benchmark

vs other buyers in the same type. Highlighted row = this buyer.

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News mentions

Major UK press & trade publications.

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Statutory & accountability

Legal status, identifiers & accountable officers.

Identifiers & contact

Type
Contracting authority
Region
United Kingdom

Board & accountable officers

Coming Q3 2026

Accountable officer + board roster

Pulled from gov.uk for arm's-length bodies and from Companies House for company-form buyers — chair, CEO, SRO and sign-off authority per contract band.

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