Top suppliers
Top suppliers to Department for Work and Pensions
Top-five suppliers hold 54% of contract value — a concentrated market.
Procurement categories
What Department for Work and Pensions buys
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV) breakdown of contracts awarded over the reporting period.
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Latest Department for Work and Pensions contracts awarded
The most recently published award notices on Find a Tender and Contracts Finder.
Crisis and Resilience Fund
IFF · 2026-11-03
£775K
Financial Support Services – Proof of Solution (PoS)
Accenture (UK) Limited · 2026-11-03
Public and Personal Safety Training (PPST)
COLLEGE OF POLICING LIMITED · 2026-11-02
£22K
Child Poverty Strategy Parents and Carers Longitudinal Study
IFF · 2026-10-30
£2.0M
Insurance Brokerage Services
Willis Limited · 2026-10-30
£10K
Magnet Axiom AX200 Examinations training
Magnet Forensics LLC · 2026-10-29
£21K
Accessibility Audit for the Synergy Programme
User Vision Limited · 2026-10-28
£325K
Accessibility Audit
Nomensa Limited · 2026-10-26
£354K
NCS MoG Level 4 Employability Practitioner Apprenticeship - ST0663
The Education and Skills Partnership · 2026-10-21
£1K
Digital Advisory Service 26 - 28
Gartner UK Ltd · 2026-10-20
£747K
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4
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174
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37
planned procurements
Work this buyer has said it intends to tender
5
frameworks running
Routes to sell here without a full tender
9
tender packs read
What it asks bidders for: insurance, certificates, scoring
Market analysis
Bidding into Department for Work and Pensions — what to expect
Supplier concentration and timing patterns that shape SME bid strategy.
25%
Awards to SMEs
54%
Top-5 supplier share
65%
Framework call-offs
53
Awards to social enterprises
Around 25% of Department for Work and Pensions’s classified awards go to small and medium-sized enterprises, and 53 have gone to voluntary, community or social enterprises. Around 65%of awards are call-offs from framework agreements — getting onto the right framework matters as much as the bid itself here.
Frequently asked
Common questions about selling to Department for Work and Pensions
How much does Department for Work and Pensions spend on procurement?
Department for Work and Pensions awarded 824 contracts totalling £11.2bn between 2023-11-08 and 2026-11-08, working with 512 unique suppliers. Average contract value is £13.9M.
Who are Department for Work and Pensions's top suppliers?
The largest suppliers to Department for Work and Pensions by total award value are G4S Secure Solutions (UK) Limited, Mitie FM Limited, ISS Mediclean Ltd. The top five suppliers together hold 54% of contract value.
What does Department for Work and Pensions buy from suppliers?
Department for Work and Pensions's procurement is concentrated in it services: consulting, software development, internet and support, education and training services, business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security, alongside specialist categories. See the full CPV breakdown below.
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SECTOR
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Sources & methodology
How this profile is compiled
Analysed by ENKII · Updated 2026-11-08
This profile aggregates public-record procurement data published by the UK Government under the Open Government Licence v3.0. ENKII fetches, deduplicates, and aggregates source records; we don't edit the underlying facts.
Source portals
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