Official UK procurement notice
Time and Motion Study · UK public procurement notice
Authority: Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis is a Preliminary Market Engagement Exercise - this is not a tendering opportunity or a call for competition.
This is to inform the market of the requirement and gather information and feedback from the market via a Supplier Questionnaire in advance of publishing a future tender.
The Office of the Traffic Commissioner (OTC) requires an independent time and motion study to establish a robust evidence base for the time, effort and resources required to deliver its principal casework, licensing, tribunal, compliance, finance, correspondence and support processes.
The study will identify the end-to-end elapsed time, active handling time, waiting time, rework, hand-offs and variation associated with agreed process families. It will distinguish productive activity from unavoidable delay and system or process constraints, analyse why variation occurs, and interpret the findings against actual and forecast workload. The resulting evidence must enable OTC to calculate the capacity and full-time equivalent resource required to deliver each process and the overall workload at agreed service levels.
The study is not an assessment of individual employee performance. Results must be reported at process, role or team level and interpreted in the context of case complexity, statutory requirements, quality controls, reasonable adjustments, system performance and dependencies on other organisations.
Please note this is a draft outline of the requirement and will be subject to amendment prior to any potential procurement exercise.
The responses to the market engagment will help determine the value and length of the contract.
CPV: Research consultancy services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency buys Research consultancy services (CPV 7321), and who usually turns up
Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Research consultancy services (CPV 7321) →
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.
Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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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.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside the region where that award was delivered.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 42 days of the bid deadline.
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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.
Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.
Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid41% / 13%
2–324% / 7%
4–629% / 33%
7+6% / 47%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate30% / 60%
Within ±2%60% / 40%
Above estimate10% / 0%
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 7321Estimate 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 15 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid13%
2–37%
4–633%
7+47%
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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
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 8 Oct 2026, 12:50 BST
- Last source update
- 8 Oct 2026, 12:50 BST
- Authority reference
T280023314- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-095178- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
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How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
8 Oct 2026 → 8 Mar 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published18 days ago8 Oct 2026, 12:50 BST
- Today27 Oct 2026
- Market engagementin 2 days29 Oct 2026, 23:59 GMT
The purpose of this market engagement is to inform suppliers of the upcoming requirement and to gather information and feedback via a Request for Information (RFI), ahead of publishing a future tender.
Following the responses received to the RFI, DVSA intends to finalise the tender documentation and publish the tender via the Central Digital Platform.
Please read the Specification and Supplier Questionnaire sections within the Market Engagement RFI, available through the Department for Transport’s (DfT) Jaggaer eSourcing Portal.
Instructions for Suppliers:
- Respond to the questions in the Supplier Questionnaire section and submit your responses via DfT’s eSourcing Portal (Jaggaer) by 11:00hrs on 29th October 2026. This will appear as a Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ).
- Search for the opportunity ‘Time and Motion Study’
- If you have any questions, please raise them via the portal by 11:00hrs on 16 October 2026.
Accessing the Portal:
- DfT’s Sourcing Portal: dft.app.jaggaer.com ↗
- For technical issues with registration, contact Jaggaer’s helpdesk:
- Phone: 0800 069 8630
- Email: help_uk@jaggaer.com
Note: You will need a DUNS number (Dun & Bradstreet) to register.
If you do not know your number, you can search for it here:
www.dnb.co.uk/duns-number/lookup.html ↗
If a DUNS number is not found, please follow the guidance provided on how to acquire one.
- Tender notice expectedin 76 days11 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 131 days8 Mar 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published8 Oct 2026, 12:50 BSTUK2
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 (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender