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)
Data loss protection solution for engineering devices
Mvision is used as the Data Loss Protection solution for Engineering Devices. The service protects the Engineering Office 365 tenant, provides shadow IT information and protection,
F5 support and maintenance renewal
This is 12-month renewal of the existing hardware and maintenance agreement for DWP's F5 estate.
DTH - security readiness
The provision of a robust review of the department's Dynamic Trust Hub (DTH) environment prior to deployment into production
DWP AND capex life cycle works
DWP AND CAPEX Life Cycle Works
DWP estates contractor framework
DWP is looking to put in place prior to 01.04.18 a new Estates Contractor Framework providing Minor Works & Capital Projects together with all ancillary & incidental works and/or s
Cloud cost optimisation tooling
DWP have strategic Hyperscale Cloud Hosting contracts which were placed to represent best value for money and high availability in order for services to be highly available to DWP'
La-ped EAS-R remediation
The Employee Authentication Service (EAS) provides 3rd parties including Local Authorities and OGDS with secure access to DWP systems. This contract requires the supplier to furthe
Office supplies
Contract for the provision of office supplies e.g. Stationary.
MAcro4 tubes MVS software for MVS in IBM zcloud
Macro4 z/OS software for MVS PACS computer system
Mantissa RMS software for MVS in IBM zcloud
Software that provides spool and reports for PACS computer system
OPH platform AIX power systems refresh - hardware and S&M
OPH Platform AIX Power Systems Refresh. This is a 5 year Call-off contract awarded via CCS RM6068 Technology Products and Associated Services (TePAS). This contract will provide: A
Event management services
Provision of Event Management services to The Pensions Regulator
Award of property legal services contract - project_20300 - DWP estates property legal services
This procurement exercise is being conducted as a further competition via the Crown Commercial Service framework RM3786 General Legal Advice Services. The further competition will
Award of property legal services contract - project_20300 - DWP estates property legal services
This procurement exercise is being conducted as a further competition via the Crown Commercial Service framework RM3786 General Legal Advice Services. The further competition will
DWP estates JCP and office fit out framework - partial refresh
DWP Estates JCP and Office Fit Out Framework - Partial Refresh
Bpdts employee benefits 2020
Award notice for BPDTS Employee Benefits 2020
Financial analysis tool eikon
Subscription to use Refinitiv's financial analysis tool Eikon
Data stream services
Subscription to Refinitiv Data Stream
Customer notifications professional services
Value uplift to the existing contract
Testing health check services
Establish a documented overarching test policy and strategy for Health, including a set of robust NFRs and implement test harness which aligns to defined test strategy.