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Department for Transport
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Total contracts
208
Known spend
£1bn
196 disclosed
Average value
£5m
Per contract
Active suppliers
10
Last 5 years
Top suppliers
Last 5 years- 1
TRL
5 winslatest 03 Sept 2026£7m
- 2
BSI Standards limited
5 winslatest 06 Aug 2026£2m
- 3
SYSTRA Limited
4 winslatest 28 Sept 2026£3m
- 4
Niblock (Builders) Limited
4 winslatest 11 Jun 2026£1m
- 5
Mott MacDonald Limited
4 winslatest 14 Sept 2026£891,154
- 6
Steer Davies & Gleave Limited
3 winslatest 05 Oct 2026£2m
- 7
AECOM Ltd
£885,400
- 8
KPMG LLP
3 winslatest 17 Jul 2026£372,995
- 9
Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
2 winslatest 26 Jan 2026£43m
- 10
Eurofins Clinical Diagnostics UK Limited
2 winslatest 28 Jul 2026£6m
What they buy
By CPV categoryBusiness servicesCPV 79
6 contracts · £14m
Education & trainingCPV 80
4 contracts · £2m
SoftwareCPV 48
3 contracts · £39m
R&D servicesCPV 73
3 contracts · £944,943
IT servicesCPV 72
2 contracts · £763,932
Printed matterCPV 22
1 contract · £45m
Architectural & engineeringCPV 71
1 contract · £3m
Construction worksCPV 45
1 contract · £570,398
Tender activity
Notices published per month — last 24 months
All contracts (208)
SS richard montgomery mast reduction project
The Department for Transport ("DfT") intends to procure a supplier to deliver mast reduction works (cutting and removal) on the SS Richard Montgomery ("SSRM"), a protected wreck lo
Mass transit taskforce (MTTF) secretariat
The Better Connected strategy published by the Department for Transport in April 2026 committed the Department to establishing a Mass Transit Taskforce. This procurement is to appo
Department for transport - RFI - PDF accessibility tagging services
DfT is re-procuring a contract for an external Supplier with practical experience and capacity to create accessible PDF files and to review and remediate untagged or incorrectly ta
Update to light duty cost and performance model
An update and improvement of the Cost and Performance model for cars and vans, previously delivered and last updated in 2020. The outputs of the model are used consistently in the
Provision of laboratory services for testing of alcohol dependency
Provision of Laboratory Services for Testing of Alcohol Dependency
Executive masters in public policy
This is a cross government contract to provide Masters level courses for policy professionals, DfT are setting up an individual contract to enable payment to the supplier
TLOT10207 - seatbelt and mobile phone observation survey 2026
The Department intends to use the findings from the survey data to produce estimates of the current level of mobile phone and seatbelt compliance across Great Britain’s roads for t
Aviation fleet data service
This contract is for the provision of an Aviation Fleet Data Service. The data will be used to monitor changes in the composition of the global aviation fleet, and to build an unde
Provision of seafarers data collection
This contract is to collect data on seafarers in the UK shipping industry. This data will form the basis of published statistics on UK seafarers active at sea, which are a core par
Provision of c-suite programme
Provision of an executive leadership development programme for senior leaders, designed to strengthen leadership effectiveness, change management capability, strategic influence, a
Roads policing innovation project and continued work 26/27
Dedicated support to take forward the recommendations of the Roads Policg Review with Police Services and others.
Linking police and health data 2026 onwards
this is a Partnership with an NHS Trust to link accident data from police and health service data
Core aircraft accident training
Provision of the Aircraft Accident Investigation & Investigating Human Performance course for AAIB Inspectors
SCI feasibility studies DNO 4 - SPEN
The SCI Feasibility Studies DNO 4 - SPEN
Contingency parking site in kent FM and welfare services
The provision of facilities management & welfare servivces at a contingency parking site in Kent.
BODS connect team
The requested work is to form a dedicated BODS Connect Team (BCT) to provide ongoing, hands-on support for BODS. The BCT will help bus operators and data publishers improve the acc
Provision of specialist planning and consenting advisory support to the euston delivery company (EDC)
Provision of specialist planning and consenting advisory services to support the Euston Delivery Company in the development of an integrated strategy aligning transport, commercial
Provision of i3P membership (2026/27)
The Infrastructure Industry Innovation Partnership (i3P) is a Connected Places Catapult (referred to herein as CPC) programme that has been established to develop, share and promot
HR qualification membership - CIPD
Annual professional membership fee for Human Resource Professionals
IMO escalator fire shutter remedial works
The existing horizontal escalator fire shutter is inoperable. Three fire shutter specialist companies have reviewed the fire shutter. Two of the specialists advised that a like for