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DVSA - Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency

WP146 Motorcycle Helmet testing

Engineering & ArchitectureCPV 71000000 71300000 71350000
Value£99k
Awarded10 May 2023
Published16 May 2023
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£99ktotal contract value
median £95k
this tender£0£2.0m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Engineering & Architecture band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 33,646 valued Engineering & Architecture tenders in our corpus.

The brief

This contract has been awarded to a supplier to provide Motorcycle Helmet testing.

Motorcycle helmets sold to the public are required to display Type Approval labels and markings which help motorcycle riders make informed choices about the helmets they choose, and understand they comply with safety regulations relevant to the UK.

DVSA would like to carry out testing to understand that helmets that carry the Type Approval markings comply with the relevant safety regulations.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

This contract has been awarded to

This contract has been awarded to a supplier to provide Motorcycle Helmet testing.

02

Motorcycle helmets sold to the public are

Motorcycle helmets sold to the public are required to display Type Approval labels and markings which help motorcycle riders make informed choices about the helmets they choose, and understand they comply with safety regulations relevant to the UK.

03

DVSA would like to carry out testing

DVSA would like to carry out testing to understand that helmets that carry the Type Approval markings comply with the relevant safety regulations.

Sentences from the notice that state an obligation, surfaced automatically and shown in the order they appear. Not an exhaustive list — always confirm against the tender documents.

The gates

What this notice demands of you

1 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

DVSARegulator registrations
DVSA would like to carry out testing to understand that helmets that carry the Type Approval markings comply with the relevant safety regulations.

Matched against the notice text, so this is a floor — the tender pack will demand things the notice never mentions. “Says must” means the quoted sentence itself used obligation language; anything ambiguous is left as a mention.

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Source & provenance
OCID
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Stage
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Source
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Buyer ref
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