LOCSU advised against DVLA legal challenge

LOCSU has opted against making a legal challenge after losing out on the contract to provide DVLA vision screening – revealing it lost out due to price.

The organisation was considering the challenge after Specsavers won the contract under a new single provider model (News 14.02.14).

Alan Tinger, LOCSU chairman, said in a letter to the DVLA: ‘While not originally intended by the DVLA, this has reached a regrettable and destabilising conclusion for the UK optical sector, the repercussions of which will be felt for a long time and may well be a tipping point for driving any other competition out of the market to the detriment of the DVLA in the future.’