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)
Installation of screens
Provision and installation of 12 screens into The Pensions Regulator's offices. 6 of the screens to be in a video wall format and a further 6 single screens. Also provision of ongo
Pipcs 2019/20 apps dev & apps maintenence development services
The requirement is to deliver development changes to PIPCS as requested of BPDTS Ltd by DWP in a number of releases. The current release dates are February 2019, October 2019 and M
DWP user research recruitment services - london
Department for Work and Pensions Digital requires participant recruitment for regular user research activities. We're looking for suppliers who can recruit participants who reflect
Intelligent automation resources
The Intelligent Automation Garage (IAG) is DWP's in-house robotic centre, based out of Newcastle and Manchester sites. DWP are interested in understanding which suppliers are curre
Experian QAS
Address Validation Service
User accessibility worksheets
Update user accessibility worksheets and perform testing with all defined Accessibility tools/softwares i.e. JAWS screen reader, Dragon - Voice recognition tool, ZoomText - Screen
HCS services support
The OPH team required a supplier who could help in implementing a number of activities to expand the current OPH capacity and to automate future request compute and storage fulfilm
Solarwinds
The architectural design, installation and configuration, training of TPR infrastructure staff and the required software including 12 months support and maintenance.
Development of the child maintenance group analytic platform - phase 1
Develop a new MI and Analytical Platform to support the Child Maintenance Group's user needs.
Development and live support of the DWP digital children's platform
In accordance with its strategic objective the Buyer intends to operate with a mixed delivery model consisting of both a core team which will be supplemented by supplier Digital te
Contract awarded
On boarding ICSS services for X86 & AIX Development environment (to be hosted on IBM Cloud) for existing release 11i and R12 upgrade Project
Contract awarded
AIX Development environment (to be hosted on IBM Cloud) for existing release 11i and R12 upgrade Project
DWP user research labs london
The Department for Work and Pensions Digital requires user research lab hire for regular user research activities in the London area. The research will be varied, with a number of
Retail vouchers
As part of our staff reward strategy we require retail vouchers that can be pre-ordered as small thank you gifts for staff. These vouchers should be available to spend in an extens
Website analytics
This requirement is for Website analytics services on the Automatic Enrollment website domains,
Commercial legal advice - GDPR
Commercial Legal Advice - GDPR
Technology recruitment framework
The Regulator has established a framework of qualified suppliers to provide all of our permanent and fixed term Technology recruitment requirements.
Heath & safety equipment
Provision of health and safety equipment
Hyperscale cloud enablement service
Consulting and advisory service on integration and use of Hyperscale Cloud services on specific components and deliverables including user stories - which can be tested end to end
Debt management config programming and build resource
The Digital Project Team, based in Manchester requires support from an experienced DM Config Programming and Build resource. The resource's responsibilities should include the foll