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)
Software delivery and exploratory testing service
Software delivery and exploratory testing service
Ecase correspondence complaints case management system 2019
eCase background: Digital had a requirement to replace the system (Comet) supporting Ministerial Correspondence (MC), Parliamentary Questions (PQs) and Freedom of Information (FoI)
Awarded contract - contingent external legal services to support dwp's it/digital work pipeline
Awarded Contract notice for Direct Award from a CCS Framework (RM3746 General Legal Advice Services)
MCF2 framework award (RM6008)
A 6 month contract is awarded to Incendium Consultancy Ltd under Lot 2; "Business Consultancy Services" of CCS Framework RM6008; Management Consultancy Framework 2 (MCF2).
Awarded contract notice for legal services - sale of IP addresses (block 3)
Awarded contract for Legal Services - Sale of IP Addresses (Block 3)
Mstore upgrade and data export award
- There are two phases. Firstly, the current M-Store system (version 2) will be upgraded to the most up to date version (3). This will allow SSCL to continue their duties as our su
AE CRM assurance
Provision of assurance services to CRM upgrade work being undertaken on the Automatic Enrollment IT Platform.
Provision of consultancy for health transformation executive report on jvs
Awarded Contract Notice for Provision of Consultancy for Health Transformation Executive Report on JVs.
Contract award: eessi progamme accessibility features
The Electronic Exchange of Social Security Information (EESSI) Programme is a cross EU initiative to move from the current clerical process for exchanging information between Membe
Attribute exchange proof of concept
Creation of a Proof of Concept solution utilising elements of the Gluu Product Suite (Gluu Server and Glue Gateway). The PoC is required to prove that the Gluu suite can support th
Legacy bridge proof of concept
Produce a proof of concept to establish a "Legacy Bridge", that could convert batch updates from legacy systems into an event stream for consumption by new service, and allow consu
Infrastructure monitoring of the PSN
The DWP requirement is to carry out continuous health check and response time monitoring of our "Agent Portal". Alerts should be generated in the event the portal is not available,
Provision of internal courier services
The Supplier must provide a Next Day service offering daily secure Visits to all the Sites. The types and volumes of Items will vary at each of the Sites. The Customer requires tha
Gazette data feed
Provision of subscription services to The Gazette.
Data hosting and configuration services
Provision of ongoing hosting, maintenance and support for The Pensions Regulators Moodle 3.1 Learning Management System (LMS) which hosts the Trustee toolkit, Public Service toolki
Managing sickness absence in small and medium enterprises phase 3
See attached Invitation to Tender
Dynamic purchasing system for employment and health related test and learn provision
NB: The closing date for this DPS is open ended, the start for the DPS is November 2018 and not 18 Mar 2023 as entered on this Opportunity Notice. UPDATE MARCH 2020 Update due to a
Delivery & analysis capability
Outcome based service to deliver milestone outcomes across application monitoring, Truesignt capability and Netscout expansion to support DWP World Class Service.
Agile cloud software development
Outcome based provision of ServiceNow Development skill sets to support the ongoing development of the platform, to reduce the backlog of requirements from the business and expedit
Transformation to cloud services
Outcome-based service to support DWP transformation its network infrastructure to support the adoption of Cloud services.