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)
FAME licences
Provision of financial accounting made easy licences
DWP lease and landlord management services
The provision of a Lease and Landlord Management (LLM) Service which will provide a property related Finance function (assure, make and receive payments due for rents, rates, insur
Executive search services for the role of executive director of regulatory policy
Executive search, selection and assessment services Additional information: HMRC2016 DPS (PS-2016-PS Services) applies
Legal services panel agreement RM3786 - call off
Call Off for legal counsel under Panel Agreement RM3786 Advice, support and drafting as required in relation to the Health and Disability Services HDAS Contract Extention
Carrenza G cloud 9 call off
Carrenza Cloud Foundry contract for provision of Carrenza Cloud Foundry G-Cloud 9 services (Cloud Hosting)
Security consultant (security architect), design and implementation
This is an Awards Notice to publish the awarded contract of Security Consultant (Security Architect), Design and implementation. The DWP awarded this contract to People Source Cons
Security vulnerability management - awarded contract
This notice is to publish the award of a Security Vulnerability Management contract to Thoughtworks Ltd. The requirements were published on the Digital Marketplace, and was open to
AWS cloud hosting
AWS Cloud Hosting G-Cloud 9 call off contract. The Services to be provided under this call off contract include a range of Cloud Compute Infrastructure Services.
Ukcloud - cloud hosting services
The Services provided in this Call-Off Agreement include a variety of Cloud Compute Hosting services available within the G-Cloud Framework under Lot 1 - Cloud Hosting.
UCFS IT health check
The UC full service requires regular IT health checks in order to ensure its resilience. This contract includes various methods of testing to ensure the service is secure.
New enterprise allowance phase 2
New Enterprise Allowance (NEA) Phase 2 will build on the success of the current NEA scheme and act on the recommendations of the review undertaken by Michelle Mone. The current NEA
Deployment and support of the enterprise wireless service
Contract awarded via RM1045 Network Services Framework.
Audio conferencing managed service - award notification
Award of the Audio Conferencing Managed Service Contract via G-Cloud 9 CCS framework reference RM1557ix. The service includes provision of audio conferencing facilities including a
DWP estates supply chain integrator
DWP Estates Supply Chain Integrator
Curam technical architect required for the delivery of a curam upgrade
PIP1282: Engagement of Curam expertise to support the in-house delivery of the Curam Upgrade initiative. The Curam upgrade is required to maintain an updated Personal Independence
Vehicle hire
Provision of Car Hire and Car Share: standard passenger cars in a range of makes, models and engine sizes. Offering a choice of diesel or petrol, auto or manual transmission and el
Adobe e-forms solution review and cloud migration consultancy
Provision of Specialist Cloud Services to undertake a critical assessment of the current situation and provide a recommended configuration for the re-hosted LiveCycle deployment
Appointment booking system - universal credit full service
To support the provision of Universal Credit full service (UC full service), the Department for Work and Pensions requires an Appointment Booking System for the creation and manage
Website useability testing
This contract is for a standalone piece of work to help future-proof the Customer's website before a new content management system is put in place during 2018. Implementation of th
Dataworks data engineer
Working as part of an agile team on Universal Credit Data Platform, the Data Engineer will identify, build, modify and manage data flows between complex systems.