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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)
IT backup solutions
IT Backup Solutions
Provision OF A technical writer TO assist IN THE rewrite AND publication OF THE national objectives, requirements AND model standards document
1 BACKGROUND TO THE PROJECT 1.1 Delivery of revisions to NORMS has always been part of the process of achieving the overall regulatory intent to promote industry ownership and resp
Provision of support on internal hazards safety assessment of the AP1000 GDA issues
BACKGROUND TO THE PROJECT 1) Westinghouse Electric Company is the Requesting Party (RP) for the AP1000 Generic Design Assessment (GDA). During Step 4 of the GDA programme for the A
Provision of support with the detailed assessment of the severe accident aspects of hinkley point C safety submissions
1 BACKGROUND TO THE PROJECT 1.1 The Hinkley Point C (HPC) site has recently been licensed by ONR to allow the Licensee, NNB GenCo, to construct and operate two EPR plants. The HPC
Provision of control and instrumentation technical review for the close out of the westinghouse electric company AP1000 C&I GDA issues
BACKGROUND TO THE PROJECT A Generic Design Assessment (GDA) of the Westinghouse Electric Company (WEC) UK AP1000 reactor was undertaken during the period July 2007 to December 2011
Provision of support in the assessment of radiation fields at the perimeters of selected nuclear licenced sites
There is an obligation on ONR to provide regulatory assurance on the management by licensee’s of radiation fields at their site fences. This requires ONR to establish independent c
E-sourcing contract
This contract is to provide e-sourcing and e-contract management web based services
ESA employability south east wales
The aim of the provision from South East Wales District is to support ESA claimants with mental health and learning difficulties with a range of barriers to move them closer to the
Desktop technical assurance review
Technical assurance review of DWP’s virtualised Desktop Service and proposal to improve its resilience.
DB AFS research
Provision of research to survey Tranche 10 trustees, employers and supporting actuaries associated with defined benefit (DB) trust-based pension schemes, to gauge reactions to and
Perceptions tracker
Provision of a survey among eleven of the Customer’s regulated audiences, to primarily understand perceptions of the Customer’s performance against its statutory objectives and aga
Getting ready 4 work intensive support for lone parents
Mercia Jobcentre Plus District aims to procure a two week employability programme for Lone Parents. The programme will include a confidence and motivational programme plus help and
Lone parents support provision greater wessex - lot 2 - hampshire & isle of wight
The overall aim of the programme is to help eligible claimants in the District of Greater Wessex move closer to employment. This could include people who have been in long term emp
Lone parents support provision greater wessex lot 1 -wiltshire & dorset
The overall aim of the programme is to help eligible claimants in the District of Greater Wessex move closer to employment. This could include people who have been in long term emp
Lone parent employability in south east wales
The South East Wales District of Jobcentre plus intends to use the Flexible Support Fund to procure provision to provide intensive support for Lone Parent benefits claimants throug
Post-work programme support greater wessex
The referrals will consist of JSA, ESA and UC Claimants, who have completed the Work Programme. The Claimants will have a variety of complex work related support needs.The courses
LAN and WLAN
Upgrade of LAN and WLAN services
Make it work
The provision will be available to assist any and all pre and post Work Programme customers in receipt of benefits (including Universal Credit) who would benefit from the motivatio
External perceptions research
Provision of research to enable a deeper understanding of perceptions, motivations and opportunities to engage in relation to the media, MPs, the pensions industry and the general
Provision of support on external hazards safety assessment for step 3 of the GDA of the UK ABWR
BACKGROUND TO THE PROJECT 1) In January 2014 ONR formally started Step 2 of the Generic Design Assessment (GDA) of Hitachi General Electric’s (Hitachi-GE) UK Advanced Boiling Water