Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2016-04-08
Buyer: Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA)
Country: UK
Region: UNITED KINGDOM
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 80530000
Estimated value: 10000000 GBP

Technical requirements: DVSA has a range of statutory duties to ensure that relevant drivers and businesses comply with regulations and other mandatory requirements related to the acquisition of this training. The successful bidder will be required to provide the following three core services:
1. Accreditation (applications and approvals) — manage and assess applications from potential training providers to become approved bodies for the delivery of a range of driver training courses, and make recommendations for approval. Assess the content of driver training courses proposed for delivery by approved training bodies, and make recommendations for approval;
2. Audit and Quality Assurance — implement and maintain a suitable audit and quality assurance programme in relation to approved training providers and courses to ensure that providers and courses meet required quality standards;
3. Database Management — put in place secure information systems, compliant with statutory and other mandatory government data security requirements.
The successful bidder will be required to put in place all necessary supporting business processes and systems to ensure delivery of the core services specified above.
The statutory requirements to be delivered through provision of the core services (currently contracted separately) are the provision of driver training courses relating to:
1. Driver Certificate of Professional Competence (Driver CPC) — https://www.gov.uk/topic/transport/driver-cpc
3. Taxi Drivers (Northern Ireland) — http://www.nidirect.gov.uk/index/information-and-services/motoring/driving-for-a-living/driving-or-operating-taxis/taxi-driver-licensing/renewing-your-taxi-driver-licence.htm
4. The Drink Drive Rehabilitation scheme (DDRS) in England and Scotland — https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/drink-drive-rehabilitation-scheme
Based on current cumulative volumes, the successful bidder will be expected to deliver on average approximately 430 centre and 3 600 course approval applications per year, 250 verification visits per year and approximately 700 centre and 1 000 course audits per year. Approvals have either a 5 or 7 year life span. Volume of applications will therefore vary on a cyclical basis.
— listen to ideas about the expression of the specification to optimise clarity for interested service providers and value for all parties;
— prepare interested service providers for the procurement process and handover of the work if successful.
Please insert ‘Training Accreditation Services PIN expression of interest’ in the subject line of the email.
A draft specification and set of requirements will be issued to interested service providers prior to the pre-competitive engagement event.
Note — these will be draft documents only. The documents will be subject to amendment prior to any procurement exercise but should help interested service providers to form a view on likely requirements and terms.


Award value: 10000000