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)
BMC engineers/software experts
Fusion's Engineering Services will work collaboratively on an outcome basis with the current DWP Systems Management Engineering capability and World Class Service team.
Application performance monitoring (APM) strategic tooling
The APM monitoring tool needs to be future proofed to the breadth and scale required of a strategic solution that can flexibly encompass the diverse range of top 30+ DWP applicatio
OPH production consumption delivery
Hybrid Cloud Services has been on a journey during the past 18 months. It is now in a steady state of product development and request fulfilment and has commenced filling critical
Application migration support
In order to develop an understanding of the environments operational within the cloud, it is vital that individual assets and services are tagged correctly with metadata. An effect
Technology asset management - configuration asset MGMT
The engagement is to provide an outcome based Configuration Management service to DWP Infrastructure Services to manage the high volume of configuration work required to undertake
NHS data share
The requirement is to build a viable technical solution, such as a working proof of concept, that will allow DWP to integrate requests for NHS data into its emerging integrated hea
DWP secure media disposal
This contract is for the Secure Disposal of DWP's hardware assets at locations across the UK.
Slack plus plan renewal
This software provides a secure messaging environment that will support the DWP Engineering Practice.
Network services (RM1045) lot 4 procurement for non-geographical numbers
DWP operate over 600 freephone numbers to customers to access welfare and pension services. This contract was to provision the inbound call minutes charged to DWP on a landline, mo
Financial analysis tool
Provision of Financial Investigation Tool software to The Pensions Regulator. To allow financial analysis.
Analytics consultancy
Analytics Consultancy (Org Re-Design)
Newspaper licensing
Provision of contract with the Newspaper Licensing Authority which is a compulsory requirement to allow for any distribution of press cuttings.
Project delivery services
DWP requires capable resources to provide flexibility to meet requirements in the short and medium term without a minimum commitment. Services required include: Technology Delivery
Cloud project support services
DWP requires capable resources to provide flexibility to meet requirements in the short and medium term without a minimum commitment. Services required include: Technology Delivery
IT service management services
DWP requires capable resources to provide flexibility to meet requirements in the short and medium term without a minimum commitment. Services required include: Technology Delivery
Management consultancy award (RM6008)
A 9 month contract is awarded to Incendium Consultancy Ltd under Lot 2; "Business Consultancy Services" of CCS Framework RM6008; Management Consultancy Framework 2 (MCF2).
Provision of consultancy for DWP commercial directorate - interim commercial service
Contracts Finder - Awarded Contract Additional information: This contract was awarded using the CCS Framework RM6008 (Management Consultancy Framework 2) - Lot 2 (Procurement, Supp
Event service poc 2
Produce a proof of concept for a component known as the Business Identifier Manager (BIM), to allow us to understand how this element will interact with the rest of the Event Servi
C-store report extraction and conversion
C-Store report extraction and conversion
Upgrade of meeting room technology
Upgrade of meeting room technology