Published date: 2 April 2025

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 29 January 2025, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support - 72000000

Location of contract

Wales

Value of contract

£4,000,000

Procurement reference

PS/24/155

Published date

2 April 2025

Closing date

29 January 2025

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

1 April 2025

Contract end date

1 October 2026

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Call-off from a framework agreement

A mini-competition or direct purchase from a pre-established framework agreement.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes


Description

DVLA requires a supplier to provide a supply of specialised resource to support the delivery of the departments ambitious change and operational programmes.

These programmes broadly looks to re-architect and re-engineer all IT systems onto new, open-source, cloud-hosted commodity IT platforms.

These systems are to integrate together and into a number of common components

DVLA is seeking a supplier to provide expertise and specialism to boost capacity and enhance capability in order to meet the outcomes of this requirement. We require a supplier who is able to help us to uplift our internal capability with a range of skills, whilst providing a short-term uplift in capacity to assist in the delivery of a number of technical deliverables.
DVLA will take the lead responsibility for delivery of programmes, projects or individual pieces of work. The supplier will generally work as part of DVLA blended teams and will need to adhere to the DVLA technology standards (work will be agreed via individual Statements of Work).
The DVLA have an extensive change pipeline and approved programmes of work to be delivered, and need to ensure that there is a mechanism in place to ensure that development capacity required for deliverer can be onboarded in a timely manner to meet delivery objectives
This service provision needs to be able to provide technically skilled, experienced resource to deliver the technical solutions to meet DVLAs programmes of work.
DVLA requires a supplier to provide a flexible delivery of highly skilled Engineering developers/support services to aide in the design, development and support of the Utilities and Drivers Programmes of work.
The supplier may also be required to support the components developed, this will be dependent on the maturity of to product that the statement of work will be aligned to. This would cover 4th line support (primarily investigation and code changes) in-hours (between 9am and 6pm Monday to Friday) with potential for out-of-hours.
All deliverables must be in line with DVLA solutions. The appointed supplier shall have the ability to deliver a mix of engineering services in line with deliverables, as set out in the individual Statements of Work as well as having the ability to interact and give guidance on best practice and react to technical challenges.


Award information

Awarded date

27 February 2025

Contract start date

1 April 2025

Contract end date

1 October 2026

Total value of contract

£4,000,000

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

BJSS Limited

Address

Whitehall Quay
Leeds
LS1 4HR

Reference

No reference - other

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No


About the buyer

Contact name

Kelly Gimblett

Address

Longview Road
SWANSEA
SA67JL
Wales

Telephone

01792

Email

kelly.gimblett@dvla.gov.uk