PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

PS.23.193 Provision of Outbound Mail Services

DVLA - Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency · published 19 Feb 2026. This page preserves the identifiers and current held fields for one Contracts Finder release; it is not an invoice, performance assessment or complete contract history.

Contracts Finder release ID76d87754-7ba4-40d7-97b2-74e60e1833af-884686
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-6a18e822-8d30-4f94-b74b-88384c6f5981
Buyer identifierGB-CFS-180563
Release typeaward
PUBLISHED COMMERCIAL FIELDS

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Award value
£316,000,000
award field
Tender value
£316,000,000
tender field
Procurement method
Call-off from a framework agreement
Category
services
CPV
64112000
Postal services related to letters
Delivery
Not stated
SA6 7JL
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

This contract will provide the Authority with an outbound bulk mail service. The provision of such is essential to supporting all services and transactions where a physical token or document is required to be sent to a mail recipient. The scope encompasses all bulk mail collection from the Authorities' sites except for 1st class, courier, special delivery and next day service, where alternative solutions are in place. The DVLA requires a contract for bulk UK mail along with a small element of international mail, currently managed by the incumbent supplier via their own Down Stream Access agreement (DSA Solution). The requirement is to maximise postal efficiencies and deliver value for money whilst providing a quality service, ensuring that mail items will be collected and delivered to the required destination(s) in line with the mail profile requirements and without interruption arising from any handover between the incumbent supplier and the Supplier. DVLA expects to produce approximately 95 million items of mail over the life of the contract. However, the quantities, types and frequencies of the mail is not guaranteed or warranted.

Tender statuscomplete
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  1. 01Notice publishedPublication timestamp on the held release19 Feb 2026
  2. 02Tender period endsTender-period field as published6 Aug 2025
  3. 03Contract startsContract-period field as published2 Mar 2026
  4. 04Contract endsContract-period field as published1 Mar 2029
SUPPLIER EVIDENCE

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DHL ECOMMERCE UK LIMITED

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SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 19 Feb 2026 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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