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)
Specialist employability support
Specialist Employability Support (SES) is a new national provision, designed to help unemployed disabled adults to secure and sustain employment or self-employment. The programme f
Vendor-agnostic 3rd party advice
The scope of this project is to engage with a vendor-agnostic 3rd party to advise TPR of any shortcomings or potential improvements with our current backup solution(s). TPR current
ITSM toolset service and implementation support
The Authority requires an IT Service Management Toolset (Toolset) based on the Contracting Authority's software as a service delivery model. The Toolset should include configuratio
Jobsearch support for lone parents and carers - lincs, notts and rutland
The provision will comprise a part time 16 hours per week, 4 week long course for groups of 12 to 16 participants and provide a further 6 weeks of in-work support for those finding
Young investment programme- black country
The Black Country JCP District wishes to procure the Young Investment Programme (YIP). YIP is a two week motivational and employability course, for 18 to 24 year olds who are in th
Additional and intensive employability support to lone parents - east anglia
The East Anglia Additional & Intensive Employability Support for Lone Parents is specifically for the East Anglia District, where a gap in provision for Income Support (IS) and Job
Career coaching for pre work capability assessment ESA claimants
Thames Valley JCP District wishes to procure an intensive, specialist, career focused coaching programme for ESA claimants that are awaiting their Work Capability Assessment (WCA).
Mentoring and employability skills for 50+ claimants in london & the home counties (6 cpas)
The provision is targeted at claimants primarily in receipt of JSA aged 50+ but does not exclude other claimant groups but this is where we would expect most of the claimants to co
Risk and reliability user group
EPRI and Participant agree to cofund with others the EPRI User Group or Subscription project (the “Project”) described in the attached Exhibit 1. EPRI shall use its best efforts to
Hosted software services
Following acceptance of the implementation of the KONETIC Software or from any date agreed in a Statement of Work and subject to the these terms, KONETIC shall provide or procure t
Mentoring and employability skills for 50+ claimants in london & the home counties (6 cpas)
The provision is targeted at claimants primarily in receipt of JSA aged 50+ but does not exclude other claimant groups but this is where we would expect most of the claimants to co
Mentoring and employability skills for 50+ claimants in london & the home counties (6 cpas)
The provision is targeted at claimants primarily in receipt of JSA aged 50+ but does not exclude other claimant groups but this is where we would expect most of the claimants to co
Mentoring and employability skills for 50+ claimants in london & the home counties (6 cpas)
The provision is targeted at claimants primarily in receipt of JSA aged 50+ but does not exclude other claimant groups but this is where we would expect most of the claimants to co
Support TO THE office FOR nuclear regulation FOR non-governmental organisation conference AND training 2014 - 2015
SUPPORT TO THE OFFICE FOR NUCLEAR REGULATION FOR NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATION CONFERENCE AND TRAINING 2014 - 2015
Mentoring and employability skills for 50+ claimants in london & the home counties (6 cpas)
The provision is targeted at claimants primarily in receipt of JSA aged 50+ but does not exclude other claimant groups but this is where we would expect most of the claimants to co
Framework agreement FOR THE provision OF recruitment marketing services 2013 - 2015
This Framework Agreement governs the relationship between the HSE and the Provider in respect of the provision of the Services by the Provider to the HSE. The HSE may at its absolu
Mentoring and employability skills for 50+ claimants in london & the home counties (6 cpas)
The provision is targeted at claimants primarily in receipt of JSA aged 50+ but does not exclude other claimant groups but this is where we would expect most of the claimants to co
Support ONR development OF norms 2
SUPPORT ONR DEVELOPMENT OF NORMS 2
Provision of a stategic planner to support ONR CNRP
With the ONR becoming a standalone Public Corporation away from HSE, it is essential to enhance the disciplines for financial management and delivery governance across the organisa
Provision OF facilitating, coaching AND mentoring
The Provision of facilitating, coaching and mentoring services to ONR. The services will be delivered on dates and at times to be agreed with the ONR Contract Manager, on a call-of