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)
Professional services for integration of identity and access management
Services to provide: Integration of Identity and Access Management with Cloud Services, Automation of Identity and Access Management workflows, Standardise access for all user role
Splunk dashboard tooling
Services required to mature DWP's Splunk Platform used by Technology Services.
Network transformation
Continuity of outcome-based service to support DWP transform its network infrastructure
DWP ITSM strategic toolset
Partner Reseller for IT Service Management Strategic Toolset
Systems integration and data services may 2020
Provision of Cloud Hosting Support
Boundary service transformation may 2020
Migration of existing Boundary Services, development of new Boundary services and a new deployment pattern for Boundary services.
DOS specialists security lead
Secure Design Lead & Information Assurance Services for Dataworks replatforming
DOS - senior technical architect
Provide A Senior Technical Architect Specialist to carry out technical architecture consultancy services for the Dataworks platform.
DOS specialists senior technical architect 2
DOS Specialists - Senior Technical Architect for Dataworks replatforming
DOS specialists senior web ops engineer
DOS Specialist - Senior Web Ops Engineer for DataWorks replatforming
Digital delivery management service
A 12 month contract for Digital Delivery Management services covering TAM, UXCC and Network Services.
Sage support & licensing
Sage Support & Licensing Services
Gitlab 2020
One of Hosting Cloud Services (HCS) goals is to provide a central hub for shared infrastructure services, that PDUs can access in order to build applications in a consistent, secur
Executive committee training
Focused Workshops to be delivered at Executive Committee Away days
Executive committee training
Focused Workshops to be delivered at Executive Committee Away Days
Business continuity software
Business Continuity Software
VME MIPS support & maintenance
VME Million Instructions Per Second (MIPS) Support & Maintenance to enable to the continued use of the Fujitsu VME Platform. The Contract is for 10 months.
VME MIPS licences
VME Million Instructions Per Second (MIPS) licences direct to enable to the continued use of the Fujitsu VME Platform. The Contract is for 12 months.
Estate strategic report
Provision of supplier to undertake a Estate Strategic Report for TPR
Hashicorp 2020 software
To support DWP's cloud strategy Cloud Infrastructure Automation Tooling is required to enable developers, operators and security professionals to agnostically provision, secure, ru