PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

Provision of Legal Support for the Expiry of PFI Contract

DVLA - Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency · published 4 Apr 2025. 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 IDa05ba11d-ef8f-41a9-957b-7ab558b386bd-838552
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-610a1635-8d67-44ba-8ee1-ff1a580bb396
Buyer identifierGB-CFS-186700
Release typeawardUpdate
PUBLISHED COMMERCIAL FIELDS

Values stay separate.

A tender estimate and an award value answer different questions. Neither is treated as cash paid.

Award value
£609,256
award field
Tender value
£5,000,000
tender field
Procurement method
Call-off from a framework agreement
Category
services
CPV
79111000
Legal advisory services
Delivery
Not stated
SA6 7JL
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

DVLA is looking for a Supplier that understands the importance of the current and future contractual relationships which are critical to the success of a PFI transition and will seek to deliver commercial and contract management and leadership solutions at every stage of the Contract expiry.

Tender statuscomplete
STAGE-DATE LEDGER

Reported dates, without an invented lifecycle.

The current projection contains one award release, not a verified chain of planning, tender, award, contract and modification records. Dates are shown in source-field order and are not silently repaired.

  1. 01Notice publishedPublication timestamp on the held release4 Apr 2025
  2. 02Tender period endsTender-period field as published6 Dec 2024
  3. 03Contract startsContract-period field as published1 Feb 2025
  4. 04Contract endsContract-period field as published31 Jan 2027
SUPPLIER EVIDENCE

Published names and exact identifiers

A company profile appears only when this release carries a usable company number. Name-only suppliers remain name-only.

Published name only

GOWLING WLG (UK) LLP

No legal entity is inferred from this supplier name.

SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 4 Apr 2025 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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