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)
Cisco ASA 5525-X firewalls + annual support
Cisco ASA 5525-X Firewalls + Annual Support
Youth engagement fund
On 30 April 2014 a package of measures to help address youth unemployment and homelessness were announced. These included a new Youth Engagement Fund of over £16m over three years
Youth engagement fund
On 30 April 2014 a package of measures to help address youth unemployment and homelessness were announced. These included a new Youth Engagement Fund of over £16m over three years
Generic customer service sector based work academy training - for all jobcentre plus claimants
Glasgow (GLED) and West of Scotland (WoS) JCP Districts wish to procure 40 x 1 week Generic Customer Service Sector Training courses to provide the Pre-Employment Training element
Call off agreement under the single supplier framework agreement for the provision of front office counter services and other related services
This is a Call Off Agreement under the Single Supplier Framework Agreement for the provision of Front Office Counter Services and other Related Services. This call off agreement is
DC compliance breach assumptions
Provision of research to improve the regulator's evidence base regarding the volumes of DC and hybrid schemes that a) will need to comply with legislative requirements introduced i
Youth engagement fund
On 30 April 2014 a package of measures to help address youth unemployment and homelessness were announced. These included a new Youth Engagement Fund of over £16m over three years
Youth engagement fund
On 30 April 2014 a package of measures to help address youth unemployment and homelessness were announced. These included a new Youth Engagement Fund of over £16m over three years
DC code research
Provision of research to inform the formal consultation process that will be undertaken ahead of the revisions that will be made to the Defined Contribution (DC) Code of practice a
Flexibility research
Provision of research to: 1) gather robust evidence so that we can understand the charges and barriers consumers face when exiting, transferring between or investing in Defined Con
Transactional print contract
The procurement for this service was conducted by Crown Commercial Services on behalf of DWP and managed electronically via HM Revenue & Customs e-Sourcing Suite. The contract will
South yorkshire - support for employment and support allowance (ESA) customers
The Support for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) Customers is specifically for the South Yorkshire District, where a gap in provision for Employment and Support Allowance (ES
Permanent & fixed term recruitment
Permanent & Fixed Term Recruitment
Permanent & fixed term recruitment
Permanent & Fixed Term Recruitment services
Permanent & fixed term recruitment
Permanent & Fixed Term REcruitment services
Permanent & recruitment services
Permanent Recruitment Services
Permanent & recruitment services
Permanent & Recruitment Services
Permanent & fixed term recruitment
Permanent & Recruitment Services
Provision of support on probabilistic safety assessment (PSA) for the generic design assessment (GDA) of the UK AP1000
1 BACKGROUND TO THE PROJECT 1.1 In December of 2011 ONR formally completed Step 4 of the Generic Design Assessment (GDA) of Westinghouse Electric Company’s (WEC) UK AP1000 reactor
ISO27001:2013 professional translation services
Review, advise and draft content of mandatory documentation, predominantly around the changes between 2005 and 2013 versions of ISO 27001 standard