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UK GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT

Public-sector buyer · United Kingdom

Department for Work & Pensions

Department for Work & Pensions is a UK public-sector contracting authority. This profile aggregates its public-record procurement — top suppliers, categories, recent awards, open tenders and expiring contracts.

Data period: 2023-06-17 to 2026-06-17Updated 2026-06-17

£52.0bn

Total spend

1,050

Contract awards

598

Unique suppliers

£51.7M

Avg contract

According to ENKII, Department for Work & Pensions has awarded 1,050 contracts worth £52.0bn to 598 suppliers between 2023-06-17 and 2026-06-17, at an average contract value of £51.7M, with the top five suppliers holding 61% of contract value.

Top suppliers

Top suppliers to Department for Work & Pensions

Top-five suppliers hold 61% of contract value — a concentrated market.

SupplierAwardsTotal value
MAXIMUS UK SERVICES LIMITED9£13.9bn
Business 2 Business1£7.5bn
Capita Business Services Ltd10£4.6bn
Maximus UK Services Ltd4£4.0bn
Atos IT Services UK Ltd2£1.8bn
G4S Secure Solutions (UK) Limited4£1.8bn
Serco Ltd1£1.7bn
IBM UNITED KINGDOM LIMITED4£1.4bn
INGEUS UK LTD3£1.1bn
Serco Limited3£1.0bn
Alexander Mann Solutions Limited1£872.0M
Capita Group Plc3£861.5M
Route 101 Limited3£707.5M
Teleperformance Limited1£694.0M
Capita Business Services UK Ltd1£679.4M
CAPITA BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED1£664.2M
Ingeus UK Limited6£650.0M
Mitie FM Limited6£642.0M
Maximus UK Services Limited4£602.1M
Serco Group2£587.1M

Procurement categories

What Department for Work & Pensions buys

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV) breakdown of contracts awarded over the reporting period.

79630000

79630000
10 awards£10.8bn

79410000

79410000
83 awards£10.6bn

85140000

85140000
20 awards£9.1bn

85310000

85310000
3 awards£7.6bn

72220000

72220000
215 awards£2.4bn

71310000

71310000
44 awards£2.3bn

79710000

79710000
4 awards£1.8bn

79610000

79610000
6 awards£1.7bn

79210000

79210000
16 awards£705.1M

79510000

79510000
3 awards£691.3M

48510000

48510000
7 awards£646.4M

79990000

79990000
5 awards£568.5M

79620000

79620000
10 awards£422.8M

72260000

72260000
91 awards£361.1M

72510000

72510000
5 awards£267.9M

48210000

48210000
56 awards£263.4M

72410000

72410000
8 awards£205.7M

45450000

45450000
1 awards£178.5M

72210000

72210000
31 awards£164.0M

71530000

71530000
4 awards£120.0M

Recent contracts

Latest Department for Work & Pensions contracts awarded

The most recently published award notices on Find a Tender and Contracts Finder.

Service Design in Government 2026

Software Acumen Limited · 2026-06-10

£11K

Functional Assessment Services (FAS) 2023 -Lot 4

Ingeus UK Limited · 2026-06-08

Vocalink Fixed Extranet Maintenance Services

Vocalink International Limited · 2026-06-07

£446K

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Pre-Prod environment for PIP, CMS, CAMLite, PIP and PXB OCI workloads

Oracle Corporation UK · 2026-06-04

£1.2M

Engineering Lifecycle support (Architecture Insights Service Lifecycle Modelling

Pixel Global · 2026-06-04

£1.2M

Functional Assessment Services (FAS) 2023 – Lot 5

Capita Group Plc · 2026-06-03

£179.7M

LTME Device Call Off

CDW Limited UK · 2026-06-01

£708K

Data Platforms and Operations Data Domain Teams

UBDS IT Consulting Limited · 2026-05-28

£1.9M

Creative Media Productions

TAG EUROPE LIMITED · 2026-05-27

£950K

Functional Assessment Services (FAS) 2023 – Lot 3

Serco Group · 2026-05-22

£587.1M

Chartered Manager Level 6 Apprenticeship ST0272

University of Lancashire · 2026-05-22

£21K

Level 5 Digital Learning Designer Apprenticeship ST0794

LDN Apprenticeships · 2026-05-22

£640K

JEGS Training

BEAMANS LIMITED · 2026-05-22

£38K

CMG Sage X3 Licence's 26&27

Datel Computing Ltd · 2026-05-22

£21K

Hybrid Hosting Transformation (HHT) Overall Delivery Enablement Management Services - C9958

Redesmere Limited · 2026-05-21

£5.8M

Hybrid Hosting Transformation (HHT) Overall Delivery Enablement Management Servi

Redesmere Limited · 2026-05-21

£5.8M

Executive Master in Public Policy - Level 3 of the Policy Profession Standards

LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE · 2026-05-21

£15K

NNSP - pre-select training

Police & Crime Commissioner for Merseyside & Chief Constable for Merseyside · 2026-05-21

£26K

Practical Accessibility

THIS IS GAIN LTD · 2026-05-20

£11K

Lift Technical Audit Services 2

TUV SUD Ltd t/a Dunbar Boardman · 2026-05-19

£338K

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Open opportunities

Open Department for Work & Pensions tenders

Tenders currently inviting bids. SMEs can respond via the official tender portal.

Enforcement Services for the Child Maintenance Service

Deadline: 2026-08-11

£3.5M

Sponsor Bank Service

Deadline: 2026-09-06

£1.4M

Short Term Payment Contingency

Deadline: 2026-09-06

£2.7M

Short Term Payment Contingency

Deadline: 2026-09-21

£2.7M

DWP Estates 2030 Programme Support

DWP Estates 2030 Programme Support

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Creative Campaign Development and Delivery

£15.0M

Sponsor Bank Service

£1.4M

Short Term Payment Contingency Service

£2.7M

DWP AI Transcription

Appropriate Adult Services

£250K

UC Project Zora - Application Decomposition & Microservices Transition

Future Employment Support

£1.2bn

Transitional Arrangement - Media Buying

£958K

Live Surveillance

£2.0M

Appropriate Adult Services

£250K

Future Employment Support

DWP Courier Services

£30.0M

Employment support products for JCS

Pipeline

Contracts expiring in the next 12 months

When these contracts end, Department for Work & Pensions typically re-tenders. SMEs preparing bids 3-6 months ahead win disproportionately often.

Syntura Circuit Migrations

Expires: 2026-06-19

£83K

Application Delivery Controller F5

Expires: 2026-06-20

£945K

Labour Market System data Migration, data access and database decommissioning

Expires: 2026-06-23

£3.0M

Labour Market System data Migration, data access and database decommissioning

Expires: 2026-06-23

£4.5M

IIAC

Expires: 2026-06-25

£95K

Research Tool - UserTesting

Expires: 2026-06-29

£255K

Restart Scheme

Expires: 2026-06-29

£1.7bn

Data Access Layers (DAL) Factory

Expires: 2026-06-30

£13.8M

Provision of DDaT Resources for DWP Product and Delivery Practice

Expires: 2026-07-08

£32.4M

Oracle Database & Platform Migration

Expires: 2026-07-10

£388K

Participant Recruitment for DWP Digital Modernisation

Expires: 2026-07-16

£200K

DWP Fit Out, Refurbishment, Minor Works, Capex Projects and Life Cycle Works Taxi Rank 2023

Expires: 2026-07-20

£1.6bn

SO072_Expo-e_Crown Hosting Data Centre Internet DDoS_1gb MIG

Expires: 2026-07-26

£9K

Provision of Apprenticeship L3 Customer Service ST0071 for Scotland.

Expires: 2026-07-31

£1.0M

Apprenticeship L3 Customer Service ST0071, for Scotland.

Expires: 2026-07-31

£1.0M

Scope 3 Carbon Emissions Annual Reporting

Expires: 2026-07-31

£202K

Apprenticeship L5 Training Provider Services

Expires: 2026-07-31

£350K

Lived Experiences of Adequacy in Retirement

Expires: 2026-08-02

£65K

Contract Award -Legal Services Scotland for the Child Maintenance Service

Expires: 2026-08-03

£6.6M

Legal Services Scotland -Conflict of Interest Supplier

Expires: 2026-08-03

£5K

Learning Passport Replacement

Expires: 2026-08-07

£80K

DWP SSL Certificates 2025

Expires: 2026-08-17

£298K

DDaT Specialists for The Garage Delivery Factory and Live Service teams

Expires: 2026-08-23

£35.4M

Technical Solution Development (Bereavement and Care)

Expires: 2026-08-31

£3.0M

British Computer Society Membership 2025/2026

Expires: 2026-08-31

£98K

L4 Digital Forensic Technician ST1343 Apprenticeship ecm_12198

Expires: 2026-08-31

£270K

British Computer Society Membership 2025/2026

Expires: 2026-08-31

£98K

Learning and Development Planning Solution

Expires: 2026-09-03

£77K

Hybrid Cloud Engineering Operations Services

Expires: 2026-09-03

£3.0M

ecm_12348 NASSTAR for Historical Call Recording Storage

Expires: 2026-09-06

£35K

Citizen Relationships Service

Expires: 2026-09-07

£1.9M

ID&T Cyber Security Assurance Contractor

Expires: 2026-09-09

£607K

Local Supported Employment

Expires: 2026-09-10

£343K

Local Supported Employment

Expires: 2026-09-10

£343K

Legal Advice for new Service lines under new Workforce Solutions Contract - Awarded Contract

Expires: 2026-09-11

£50K

Provision of Apprenticeship L3 Public Sector Compliance Officer ST0708 to DWP

Expires: 2026-09-16

£900K

The Provision of Apprenticeship L4 Data Protection and information governance practitioner. to DWP.

Expires: 2026-09-17

£120K

HHT Support Data Centre Exit

Expires: 2026-09-19

£1.7M

ecm_11972 Provision of Digital Specialists for Maternity Allowance Modernisation Project

Expires: 2026-09-30

£4.5M

ecm_12052 - Provision of Digital Specialist Resources for DWP Digital Services - Children & Families Function

Expires: 2026-09-30

£11.4M

Integration Transformation Resources

Expires: 2026-09-30

£4.0M

PMO Surge Support

Expires: 2026-10-06

£13.4M

Universal Credit Intensive Work Search Review Frequencies Trial

Expires: 2026-10-09

£238K

OTS Deployment

Expires: 2026-10-12

£520K

PIP/CMS Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

Expires: 2026-10-14

£399K

ecm_11330 - DWP Intelligent Automation Garage: Robotic Process Automation (RPA) - UiPath Licenses

Expires: 2026-10-17

£10.0M

Fraud, Error & Debt - CFEMS Platform

Expires: 2026-10-27

£23.2M

BT Business Broadband

Expires: 2026-10-30

£79K

ISF Membership

Expires: 2026-10-31

£17K

ISF Membership

Expires: 2026-10-31

£17K

Market analysis

Bidding into Department for Work & Pensions — what to expect

Supplier concentration and timing patterns that shape SME bid strategy.

61%

Top-5 supplier share

243d

Avg response window

46d

Median response window

20mo

Avg contract duration

Frequently asked

Common questions about selling to Department for Work & Pensions

How much does Department for Work & Pensions spend on procurement?

Department for Work & Pensions awarded 1,050 contracts totalling £52.0bn between 2023-06-17 and 2026-06-17, working with 598 unique suppliers. Average contract value is £51.7M.

Who are Department for Work & Pensions's top suppliers?

The largest suppliers to Department for Work & Pensions by total award value are MAXIMUS UK SERVICES LIMITED, Business 2 Business, Capita Business Services Ltd. The top five suppliers together hold 61% of contract value.

What does Department for Work & Pensions buy from suppliers?

Department for Work & Pensions's procurement is concentrated in 79630000, 79410000, 85140000, alongside specialist categories. See the full CPV breakdown below.

How can my business bid for Department for Work & Pensions contracts?

Department for Work & Pensions publishes open tenders on Find a Tender and Contracts Finder. ENKII matches your business against live tenders, identifies certifications you'll need, and surfaces frameworks worth applying to. Free Readiness Score in 3 minutes.

What's the typical response window for Department for Work & Pensions tenders?

Department for Work & Pensions typically gives suppliers a median of 46 days to respond (average 243 days). Standard contract duration is around 20 months.

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Sources & methodology

How this profile is compiled

Analysed by ENKII · Updated 2026-06-17

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

  • · Find a Tender (find-tender.service.gov.uk)
  • · Contracts Finder
  • · Spend Network
Full methodology — calculations, refresh cadence & caveats

Source records remain subject to Open Government Licence v3.0 attribution. ENKII doesn't warrant accuracy beyond the source portals' own publication.

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