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 leeds user research lab services
The Department for Work and Pensions is looking to hire a research facility on a time and materials basis. The research will be varied, with a number of DWP projects utilising the
DWP leeds user research recruitment services
Department for Work and Pensions Digital requires participant recruitment for regular user research activities. Participants will take part in research for a number of projects del
Mobile connectivity
Mobile connection services, providing voice and data connections services across the estate
Universal jobmatch
Provision and support of a free to use, national jobs board, known as Universal Jobmatch
Supply, delivery and installation of office furniture and associated services - lot B ergonomic office furniture
Award of a Call off Contract to Wagstaff Bros. Limited for the Supply of Ergonomic Office Furniture to the Department for Work and Pensions.
FDM phase 5 graduate development g-cloud contract
This is two year contract let via G-Cloud to provide junior IT and business consultants to support business areas throughout DWP Digital Group. Services will be 'called off' to fle
UCFS gbest pen test
GBEST Penetration Test for UCFS
ISO 27001
ISO 270001 Audit for Universal Credit Full Service
DWP data centre circuits
2 point to point fibre-based circuits with a single 10Gb/s wavelength between the Corsham and Farnborough
Gbest TI test
Security - G Best Threat Intelligence Test for Universal Credit
DWP cloud support - azure partner for the DWP electronic exchange of social security information (eessi) programme
DWP Cloud Support - Azure Partner for the DWP Electronic Exchange of Social Security Information (EESSI) Programme
Remediation & support agreement
Cisco have been brought in through a two year call-off contract with delivery through Statements of Work as required to provide a service as experts in their networks to address su
Strategic contingency service for payment disruption
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is considering options for the future delivery of its Strategic Contingency Services required in the event of a short or long term disrup
Security screening
The Regulator is seeking a Provider for pre-employment security screening to commence 2018; however set up and training elements maybe required in advance resulting in the contract
Journals-research library
Journal Subscriptions for business related insight, research and personal development purposes in 3 different service offerings and 2 different formats (Print, Electronic or a comb
Lot A - supply, delivery and installation of standard office furniture and associated services
Contract Award Notice relating to the Award of a call-off Contract to Triumph Furniture Limited under Lot 2 of CCS Framework Agreement RM3812. This contract is for the Supply, Deli
Cost modelling (note: published for completeness, see description for details)
MOJ Professional Services for Construction Framework - Lot 2 (This contract award was not published at the time of award. It has been published for transparency purposes to provide
CADS cloud hosting 2017(Note: published for completeness, see description for details)
Cloud Hosting for CADS (This contract award was not published at the time of award. It has been published for transparency purposes to provide a record of existing departmental con
Relationship support - targeted preventative support (lot B) (note: published for completeness, see description for details)
Targeted Preventative Support is an evidenced based preventative intervention which works with parental couples, who are likely to face relationship stress or be at risk of relatio
Digital recruitment advertising (note: published for completeness, see description for details)
Digital Recruitment Advertising (This contract award was not published at the time of award. It has been published for transparency purposes to provide a record of existing departm