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)
Enterprise license agreement (IBM)
Enterprise License Agreement (IBM) (This contract award was not published at the time of award. It has been published for transparency purposes to provide a record of existing depa
Technology products - centerprise
Macbooks and Yubikeys (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 cont
SAS subject matter expert
Subject Matter Expert (SME) service consultancy man-days. (This contract award was not published at the time of award. It has been published for transparency purposes to provide a
CADS cloud hosting
Provision of cloud computing for DWP CADS service
Mobile device management (MDM)
Mobile Device Management (MDM) roll out (This contract award was not published at the time of award. It has been published for transparency purposes to provide a record of existing
Security education & awareness programme
The aim of the SEA is to embed security awareness, to deliver a more mature security culture and to effect consistent behaviours to make our people and information secure without c
CIS 2 janus project from discovery stage - digital services 2 framework call off (note: published for completeness, see description for details)
Single Value Added Reseller (VAR) (This contract award was not published at the time of award. It has been published for transparency purposes to provide a record of existing depar
Test only MF1
Test Only MF1
Test only MF1
Test Only MF1
VME support and maintenance
Provision of Support and Maintenance for DWP's VME systems
Dataworks senior data engineer
The senior data engineer will identify, build, modify and manage data flows between complex systems on the UC platform. These data flows must make use of open source technologies,
Test notice only
This is a test
Test notice only
This is a test notice only
Courier services
Courier Services
Psychometric assessment & testing
The regulator is seeking a Provider for a range of psychometric assessments to commence 1st April 2018. Contract duration will be for a three [3] year period, with an option of a 1
The provision of door entry and intruder detection services (aegis)
The existing security entry system (AEGIS) supports the Authority's requirement for enhanced security to enable a reduced manned security presence.
Test notice only
This is a test notice
Test notice only
This is a test notice only
DWP document and data management service reference number: DWP101976
The Contracting Authority, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), is awarding the tender for the secure mail opening, document scanning, indexing, valuables handling and multi
PAFP software support services agreement
Contract award notice - maintenance agreement for PAFP software support services