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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)
JSA new claims
DWP requires a contact centre service provider to deliver a Jobseekers New Claims service line from 1.8.2016 until 31.7.2018 with the potential to extend for an additional 12 month
ESA employability - SE wales
The aim of the provision to support ESA claimants with mental health and learning difficulties with a range of barriers and move them closer to the labour market.The Invitation to
Short message services contract
This Contract will provide Short Message Services (SMS) which will enable the DWP to send and receive text messaging communication.
Events booking services
Events Management Services
Travel and accommodation booking
Provision of travel and accommodation booking services
Opportunity YOU in buckinghamshire and oxfordshire
The provision is to provide additional support to unemployed claimants, Lone Parents and Carers from the four priority groups listed below and living in Buckinghamshire and Oxfords
Phase 1 - relationship support: support (parents together)
Support (Parents Together) Providing couple relationship support to those experiencing relationship distress; especially parents, guardians and disadvantaged groups The aim of this
Phase 1 - relationship support: educate and equip (professionals)
Educate and Equip (Professionals) Providing couple relationship education and support awareness to frontline practitioners and supporting professionals. The aim of this tender exer
Phase 1 - relationship support: educate and equip (public)
Educate and Equip (Public): Providing relationship education to couples especially parents, guardians and disadvantaged groups. The aim of this tender exercise is to appoint a supp
VME-R mobilisation
DWP have decided to re-platform its VME applications to VME-R using Microfocus COBOL as the platform to run its VME-R services. In order to achieve this DWP need a supplier who is:
IT service desk
This Contract is for a UK based, industry standard Service Desk to capture and handle IT incidents and service requests from DWP users The new service has been disaggregated in lin
Provision of support on civil engineering safety assessment for step 3 of the UK ABWR
STATEMENT OF SERVICE REQUIREMENT FOR THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT ON CIVIL ENGINEERING SAFETY ASSESSMENT FOR STEP 3 OF GDA OF THE UK ABWR BACKGROUND TO THE PROJECT 1) In January 2014 O
Provision of specialist technical ventilation services
1. BACKGROUND TO THE PROJECT 1.1 The XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX at Sellafield support the Magnox Operating Programme (MOP) by producing XXXXXXX powder from the nitric acid based XXX feed
CAnopy1_G-Cloud_Message hub service
The current Data Transport Appliance Managed Service continues to maintain the 382 dedicated servers and continues to allow DWP to share benefit data on a daily basis via a nightly
Opportunity health & disability 3 - buckinghamshire & oxfordshire
This Opportunity Health and Disability (OHD) Programme is aimed at jobseekers living in the Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire area who have a health condition or disability which imp
Opportunity health & disability 3 - gloucestershire & the west of england
This Opportunity Health and Disability (OHD) Programme is aimed at jobseekers living in the Bath & NE Somerset, Bristol, North Somerset, Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire l
Graduates in wst yorkshire
Programme to help recent graduates into work
Desktop technical assurance review
Technical assurance review of DWP's virtualised Desktop Service and proposal to improve its resilience
AE tracker
Provision of one-four waves of employer and intermediary surveys to continue monitoring awareness of, and readiness for, automatic enrolment among these audiences and to evaluate t
Event and delegate management
Provision of event and delegate management via the CCS Communications Marketplace .