Buyer profile
Department For Work and Pensions
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Total contracts
1,270
Known spend
£28bn
1027 disclosed
Average value
£27m
Per contract
Active suppliers
10
Last 5 years
Top suppliers
Last 5 years- 1
G4S Secure Solutions (UK) Limited
2 winslatest 28 Apr 2025£2bn
- 2
Mitie FM Ltd
2 winslatest 15 Apr 2025£1bn
- 3
Capita Group Plc
2 winslatest 17 Jul 2026£861m
- 4
SHARED SERVICES CONNECTED LIMITED (‘SSCL’)
2 winslatest 25 Jul 2025£807m
- 5
INGEUS UK LTD
2 winslatest 17 Jul 2026£755m
- 6
Adzuna Limited
2 winslatest 09 Apr 2025£30m
- 7
IBM UK Ltd
2 winslatest 29 Sept 2025£23m
- 8
MAXIMUS UK SERVICES LIMITED
1 winlatest 17 Jul 2026£942m
- 9
Capita Business Services Ltd
1 winlatest 17 Jul 2026£721m
- 10
Serco Group
1 winlatest 17 Jul 2026£721m
What they buy
By CPV categoryIT servicesCPV 72
387 contracts · £844m
Education & trainingCPV 80
190 contracts · £421m
Business servicesCPV 79
180 contracts · £5bn
SoftwareCPV 48
113 contracts · £528m
R&D servicesCPV 73
87 contracts · £1m
Health & social workCPV 85
48 contracts · £3bn
Financial & insuranceCPV 66
32 contracts · £35m
Office & computing equipmentCPV 30
29 contracts · £34m
Renewal radar
Awarded contracts predicted to come up for re-tender in the next 18 months
- Legal Services for Synergy Business Process Service (BPS) - Awarded Contract
Predicted using median duration of UK contracts in the same CPV division (11 months from contract start date → renewal expected by May 2027).
May 2027
40% confident
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Pre-Prod environment for PIP, CMS, CAMLite, PIP and PXB OCI workloads
Predicted using explicit duration found in the tender description (12 months from contract start date → renewal expected by May 2027).
May 2027
80% confident
- Transactional Print for Printed Customer Communications
Predicted using median duration of UK contracts in the same CPV division (11 months from contract start date → renewal expected by Jul 2027).
Jul 2027
40% confident
- Crown Hosting Service
Predicted using median duration of past contracts from this buyer in the same CPV division (17 months from contract start date → renewal expected by Nov 2027).
Nov 2027
60% confident
- Public Cloud Services (G-Cloud 14)
Predicted using median duration of past contracts from this buyer in the same CPV division (17 months from contract start date → renewal expected by Nov 2027).
Nov 2027
60% confident
- Level 4 Software Tester Apprenticeship Rapid Award
Predicted using median duration of UK contracts in the same CPV division (15 months from contract start date → renewal expected by Nov 2027).
Nov 2027
40% confident
Tender activity
Notices published per month — last 24 months
All contracts (1270)
DWP technical vision
- The Technical Vision will establish a target state operating model including functional and technical architecture for D&A that meets customer needs, is aligned to DWP's objectiv
D&A cloud research licenses
Provision of 5 Gartner licences for Data and Analytics
Event platform beta
Provide architectural direction and engineering leadership to support successful delivery of the Event Platform
Data governance and management assurance
Data Governance Framework Development
IRIS C19 re-factoring
Refactoring of the Integrated Risk and Intelligence Services (IRIS) to alleviate specific high pressure points on the existing (recently remediated) platform in dealing with the in
Executive license agreement
Contract for provision of access to Gartner analytical products and market information for DWP Executives
Gartner license agreement
The contract is for provision of licenses that enable access to market reports and analytical content provided by Gartner.
Agile professional services to support the deployment of axon and EDC
DWP is seeking to future proof it's architecture and capability through the deployment of a Business Glossary and Data Catalogue. This will allow the department to make better use
Intranet hosting
Contract Notice for BPDTS Ltd
TAM transformation tooling cloud enablement services
A 12 month G Cloud 11 contract for the delivery of TAM Transformation Tooling Cloud Enablement Services. Delivery will be undertaken via a number of individually Buyer governed Sta
PSM application support, incident resolution and accessibility testing
PSM application support, incident resolution and accessibility testing
Optical recognition and complex analysis
Complete the development of a bespoke OCR solution
Executive search services (DP & chair members)
Executive Search Services for Determination Panel & Chair Members
Legacy application modernisation
C-Store is an HR legacy payroll and finance system used within DWP for several years, last operational in 2007. The system is now used in a read only capacity to determine pensiona
Sponsor bank for short term contingency
This notice is to advise of the award of contract for the Sponsor Bank element of the Short Term Payment Contingency service. Sponsor Bank services are required to manage funding i
PSM application support, incident resolution and accessibility testing
PSM application support, incident resolution and accessibility testing
Network infrastructure support services
BeDigital - Network Infrastructure and Support Services. Technical Architect for infrastructure solution designs.
Legal support - data sharing agreement (NHS digital) - awarded contract
Legal Support - Data Sharing Agreement (NHS Digital) - Awarded Contract
Security design service for DCBT
Provide cloud security design, proportionate security architectures, controls and develop implementation roadmaps
Configuration & programming DMS
DMS Augmented Service Delivery.