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The Secretary of State for Transport

Future Theory Test Service (FTTS) Test Centre Network (TCN)

EducationCPV 80000000 80400000 80410000 80411000
Value£231.1m
Awarded21 Dec 2020
Published23 Jan 2021
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£231.1mtotal contract value
median £84k
this tender£0£249.6m

This is a large award for Education & Training — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 23,516 valued Education & Training tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA), an executive agency of the Department for Transport, acting in its capacity as procurement agent on behalf of The Secretary of State for Transport has undertaken a procurement process adopting the Competitive Dialogue procedure (Contract Notice 2019/S 213-523071)for the provision of the Regional Test Centre Networks ("TCN") across Great Britain and Northern Ireland for its Future Theory Test Service (FTTS).

The contracts are also for the benefit of the driver and vehicle agency (an executive agency of the Northern Ireland Department for Infrastructure) .

The TCN is packaged into three regional Lots, Having completed this competition, DVSA has appointed the successful suppliers for each of the three regional Lots in accordance with the procedures set out in the procurement documents, including the detailed contract award process.

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