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)
Insight profiling
Provision of Insight Profiling
DNA parentage testing service
A fundamental principle of the Child Maintenance Group (CMG) is to provide services that support separated families by assisting with the payment of maintenance between parents for
Project 19936 - appointment booking system g-cloud 7 saas
UC FS required an appointment booking system to book between 21- 25 million appointment per annum. The contract was awarded to Booking Bug under G-Cloud 7 in preperation for a new
Exec 121 coaching
Executive 121 Coaching
Application performance management
This contract is to purchase licenses for an application performance monitoring toolset, and the professional services to ensure optimal installation, configuration and training.
AWS cloud connectivity
UCFS will be migrating the service from the current SCC hosting platform to a public commodity cloud platform (AWS). In order to facilitate this, we need to replicate the connectiv
Infrastructure monitoring of the PSN
HTTPS monitoring of one URL from within the PSN. This should run every minute, and ensure that the HTTP response code is 200, and also that an expected string constant is found in
Resource augmentation for bancs development & live support of the DWP technology children platform
The Supplier is required to provide flexible capacity and capability to support DWP by providing technical specialist resource that can deliver outcomes in the areas of development
Resource augmentation for the development and live support DWP technology children platform teams
The Supplier is required to provide flexible capacity and capability to support DWP by providing technical specialist resource that can deliver outcomes in the areas of development
LMS hosting & support
This contract is delivering hosting and support services for our learning management system
Get up and go (18+) west yorkshire
The West Yorkshire Jobcentre Plus District intends to use Flexible Support Fund to fund the Get Up and Go (18+) programme to support claimants who are aged 18+ and who are claiming
Applications threat security service
Delivering Apps to Smartphones is a key element of transforming the digital workplace and providing colleagues with modern solutions which enable them to be more efficient and effe
ITSM service desk & FM tool
Contract for the replacement of Hornbill Supportworks with ServiceNow's IT Service Automation Application Suite to provide core functionality to the IT and Facilities Service Desk
X86
A 2 year GCloud 7 Framework contract with HPE for provision of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) covering a range of DWP x86 platform-based services. The contract commences 1st Ma
VME
A 2 year GCloud 8 Framework contract with HPE for provision of Platform as a Service (PaaS) covering the DWP VME platform-based services. The contract commences 1st May 2017 with a
MVS
A 2 year G Cloud 8 framework contract with HPE for the provision of Platform as a Service (PaaS) covering the DWP Multiple Virtual Storage (MVS) service. The contract commenced 16
DNA parentage testing service
The authority is seeking a supplier capable of providing a DNA Parentage Testing Service. The overarching qualifying standards set for this opportunity include: • To be accredited
People management pathway training
Blended learning solution providing appropriate learning pathways for people in a line management role
Access to work holistic assessments
The Department for Work and Pensions has contracted with 2 separate suppliers to deliver Holistic Assessment services under the Access to Work programme on a national basis. Servic
Programme assurance specialist
Programme assurance specialist services relating to the design, build and delivery of a regulatory programme.