Driving School Tenders and Contracts

Driving school procurement covers driving lessons, learner licence training and instructor-led tuition across car, motorcycle and vocational categories. Lessons for apprentices, care leavers and staff come up, as do HGV, C1 and driver CPC courses, courses for prisoners and emergency driving training.

Stotles brings together driving school tenders and contracts from 100+ portals into one search, so you do not have to check each portal separately, and you can set alerts for new opportunities across the UK and Ireland.

If you want to search the government portals directly, Find a Tender carries higher-value contracts across the UK and Contracts Finder carries lower-value contracts in England. Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales and eTendersNI cover Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, Ireland's eTenders covers Irish public bodies, and many councils, NHS bodies and housing associations publish on their own e-tendering portals such as ProContract. Many buyers set up frameworks of approved driving schools or instructors that reopen for new providers, and ambulance trusts publish driver training frameworks on Find a Tender.

Instructors must be registered with the DVSA as approved driving instructors, and vocational courses must be delivered by a centre approved for Driver CPC. Tenders usually set minimum insurance cover, check financial standing and ask for evidence of similar training contracts at selection stage. Under the Procurement Act 2023, suppliers can be excluded for certain criminal convictions, insolvency or failure to pay tax.

Yes. Public sector buyers run framework agreements and open tenders that independent driving schools and instructors can apply to join, alongside larger training providers.

Local councils, NHS ambulance and blood services trusts and the Ministry of Justice are regular buyers. They procure driving tuition for apprentices, staff development and specialist licence categories such as HGV, C1 and emergency response driving.

Read fleet and workforce development plans, apprenticeship programmes, driver CPC renewal cycles and prison education plans, which show work coming due ahead of a notice. On Stotles you can track those signals and the buyers behind them, then follow a notice from pre-tender through to award.

Driving school notices carry 80411000 (Driving-school services), 80510000 (Specialist training services) and 80000000 (Education and training services).