Published date: 14 December 2020

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 15 January 2021, 12am

Contract summary

Industry

  • Engineering services - 71300000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£750,000

Procurement reference

tender_257298/908435

Published date

14 December 2020

Closing date

15 January 2021

Closing time

12am

Contract start date

1 April 2021

Contract end date

31 March 2022

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (above threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

This procedure can be used for procurements above the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

The Vehicle Certification Agency (VCA), with the understanding of the Swedish Transport Agency (STA), invites submissions from Suppliers for the undertaking of light-duty vehicle emissions testing for the purposes of the "New In-Service Conformity (ISC) Methodology", introduced in Annex II (Part B) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1151, as amended by 2018/1832 (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/GA/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32018R1832).

In this Contract, the Supplier will be required to source, examine and test vehicles in accordance with this methodology, for a minimum of two ISC annual programmes (2020 and 2021) with an option to extend the contract to cover a third annual programme (2022) subject to the agreement of all parties.

More information

Additional text

The competition will be run on the Department for Transport Sourcing Portal:

https://dft.app.jaggaer.com/

In order to participate in the competition and view the ITT documents, you must first register on the portal - you can do this by clicking the grey "click here to register!" button on the link above and following the instructions.

Please note that if you are an existing supplier to the DfT, you may be notified that you already exist within the new system. If this is the case please email CREATE@dft.gov.uk with your preferred email address for registration. This will be updated on the system where you will then be able to check and update all your details accurately.

In addition please note that you will require a DUNS number (Dun and Bradstreet) to register. If you do not know your number access the following link to find yours: https://www.dnb.co.uk/duns-number/lookup.html, click on the D-U-N-S number section. If a DUNS number is not found there is guidance on how to acquire one in the same place.


Should you have any technical issue registering on the system please contact the Jaggaer Helpdesk in the first instance:

Phone: 0800 069 8630
help_uk@jaggaer.com

About the buyer

Contact name

Tamsin Pearce

Address

Great Minster Hse, 33 Horseferry Rd,
London
SW1P 4DR
England

Email

tamsin.pearce@dft.gov.uk