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)
Microsoft surface hubs for DWP corporate center
The Department sought to procure a number of Microsoft Surface Hubs for the corporate hubs. These will allow for better communication between centres.
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
Digital debt services project
The DWP wishes to purchase a debt management system which includes implementation, provision, management and operation for a range of operational sites that house approximately 2,3
User experience control center
User Experience Control Center (This contract award was not published at the time of award. It has been published for transparency purposes to provide a record of existing departme
Heroku platform for pension wise
Heroku Platform Enterprise Support
The provision of JEGS and JESP training for UK civil service
The Provision of JEGS and JESP Training for UK Civil Service
Postal services - bulk mail (down stream access)
Collection and transportation of mail items from fixed mail production sites into Royal Mail inward mail centres
User experience control centre
User Experience Control Centre (This contract award was not published at the time of award. It has been published for transparency purposes to provide a record of existing departme
Strategic security operations centre (SSOC)
Strategic SOC will include the People, Processes, and Technology required to provide security oversight of the DWP systems and services. (This contract award was not published at t
Graduate development services phase 3
Graduate Development Services (This contract award was not published at the time of award. It has been published for transparency purposes to provide a record of existing departmen
IBM software enterprise licence agreement
Software enterpise licence agreement for IBM software, program licensing and software support (This contract award was not published at the time of award. It has been published for
Cloud enterprise accreditation (note: published for completeness, see description for details)
Axway novation (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 contracts).
Dedicated courier network
Dedicated Courier Network
Office supplies - lot 2 CCS framework RM3723
Computer Consumables
Telephone interpreting services
Telephone Interpreting Services
International mail
Postal Services - International Mail
ABP-0434 jegs/jesp training framework
ABP-0434 JEGS/JESP Training Framework
Bpdts contingent labour
BPDTS Contingent Labour
Provision of specialist contingent labour services
Contingent Labour ONE call-off to supply temporary and specialist staff to DWP
The provision of fraud investigation service covert surveillance equipment and vehicle installation services
The Provision of Fraud Investigation Service Covert Surveillance Equipment and Vehicle Installation Services