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)
LMS hosting
Provision of hosting, service and maintenance of the Learning Management System (LMS).
Local family offer
DWP led the cross-government Family Stability Review in December 2013. The Review analysed the evidence on the drivers and levers around family formation, stability and breakdown a
Work choice
Work Choice is a specialist disability employment programme launched in October 2010. Work Choice is a voluntary employment programme that helps disabled people with more complex i
Provision OF confirmatory samples AND report TO support ONR’S consideration OF THE delicensing OF DOCK NO 3 AT rosyth royal dockyard LTD (RRDL)
Scope of Work: 1. Detailed analysis of the documentation relating to the monitoring performed of all three areas. 2. On-site survey and sampling. To include 2.1. Walking the ground
The review of westinghouse’s validation evidence for the effectiveness of the AP1000 passive reactor heat removal system
1.1 In 2007, Westinghouse (WEC) submitted its AP1000 reactor design to ONR for a phased Generic Design Assessment (GDA). This culminated in 2011 with ONR publishing a suite of Step
The review of the applicability of submitted UK AP1000 design basis fault modelling to the GDA reference design
.1 ONR has already undertaken a comprehensive assessment of the adequacy of WEC’s extant UK transient analysis of design basis faults (Ref 1) against the 2006 ONR Safety Assessment
Assessment of hitachi-ge allocation of function for the UK ABWR
1.1 In January 2014 ONR formally started Step 2 of the GDA of Hitachi General Electric’s (Hitachi-GE) UK Advanced Boiling Water Reactor (UK ABWR). Hitachi-GE is the Requesting Part
Support for assessment of hitachi-ge human based safety
1.1 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 Reactor (UK ABWR). Hitac
Provision of civil engineering design assessment hinkley point C
Hinkley Point C (HPC) site has been licensed by the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) to facilitate the licensee, NNB Generation Company Ltd (NNB GenCo), to construct and operate
Ready 4 work - intensive support programme for lone parents in the black country JCP district
Black Country JCP District wishes to procure a two week employability programme for lone parents. The course will include a confidence and motivational programme plus help and advi
Health & safety equipment
Provision of specialist or orthopaedic items to comply with Health & Safety legislation including Display Screen Equipment Regulations, eg chairs/specialist computer equipment
Retail vouchers
As part of the regulator’s reward strategy we require retail vouchers that can be pre-ordered as small thank you gifts for staff. The requirement is for vouchers that can be spent
AE contact data
Provision of email address data to assist in a direct email marketing campaign
Assessment of safety standards at onshore salt cavity & naturally occurring reservoir storage sites
HSE is inviting tenders from individuals or organisations to assess the safety standards at boreholes associated with underground salt cavity and naturally occurring reservoir gas
Provision of control and instrumentation support to GDA of UK ABWR
ONR is undertaking a phased Generic Design Assessment (GDA) of the Hitachi General Electric (Hitachi-GE), the Requesting Party (RP), UK Advanced Boiling Water Reactor (UK ABWR). Hi
Health and employability programme pre and post WP -esa/is/jsa
Provision for 13 weeks additional support for ESA claimants with identified health conditions, partners of ESA claimants, This provision is also available to JSA,IB,IS & UC claiman
Scheme admin qualitative research
Provision of qualitative research with administrators and trustees of pension schemes into scheme administration and record-keeping.
Employer design rapid response research
Provision of quick turnaround qualitative research with small and micro employers when required up to the contract value cap.
Gateway to employment - specialist support for claimants with multiple barriers
The provision is targeted at JSA/ESA/IS claimants, not participating in Work Programme, and have health issues/multiple barriers preventing them from moving towards and into sustai
Provision of tanker jetty operations training
This training is required to provide sufficient competence for regulatory HID inspectors involved in carrying out inspections at jetties associated with ship-to-shore transfer of h