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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: 2023-08-01 to 2026-08-01Updated 2026-08-01

£52.5bn

Total spend

1,009

Contract awards

581

Unique suppliers

£54.2M

Avg contract

According to ENKII, Department for Work & Pensions has awarded 1,009 contracts worth £52.5bn to 581 suppliers between 2023-08-01 and 2026-08-01, at an average contract value of £54.2M, with the top five suppliers holding 60% of contract value.

Top suppliers

Top suppliers to Department for Work & Pensions

Top-five suppliers hold 60% 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 Limited7£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
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.

Business and management consultancy services

79410000
83 awards£11.4bn

Personnel services except placement and supply services

79630000
11 awards£10.8bn

Miscellaneous health services

85140000
20 awards£9.1bn

Social work services

85310000
3 awards£7.6bn

Systems and technical consultancy services

72220000
201 awards£2.3bn

Consultative engineering and construction services

71310000
42 awards£2.3bn

Security services

79710000
4 awards£1.8bn

Placement services of personnel

79610000
6 awards£1.7bn

Accounting and auditing services

79210000
17 awards£705.1M

Telephone-answering services

79510000
3 awards£691.3M

Miscellaneous business-related services

79990000
5 awards£568.5M

Communication software package

48510000
5 awards£487.2M

Supply services of personnel including temporary staff

79620000
10 awards£422.8M

Software-related services

72260000
81 awards£342.5M

Computer-related management services

72510000
6 awards£279.8M

Networking software package

48210000
52 awards£260.2M

Provider services

72410000
8 awards£205.7M

Other building completion work

45450000
1 award£178.5M

Programming services of packaged software products

72210000
26 awards£155.3M

Construction consultancy services

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.

Transactional Print for Printed Customer Communications

Allied Publicity Services (Manchester) Limited · 2026-07-31

£31.9M

CDC Economic Modelling

Pensions Policy Institute · 2026-07-31

£55K

Pathways to Work: Innovation Fund Administration - Call off under the RM6322 - Fund Administration and Disbursement Services (FAADS) Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS)

Ernst and Young LLP · 2026-07-29

£11.5M

The 'Foundations of Internal Auditing (FIA)' qualification

CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF INTERNAL AUDITORS · 2026-07-21

£18K

WorkWell (Expansion) NST

Social Finance Ltd · 2026-07-21

£4.8M

Technical DevOps services for DWP Tech Debt register

Stadia Consulting Group Ltd · 2026-07-17

£3.4M

Technical DevOps services for DWP Tech Debt register

Stadia Consulting Group Ltd · 2026-07-17

£1.4M

Career Transition Support

Manchester Square Partners LLP · 2026-07-15

£30K

Women into Leadership 2026

Political Engagement Limited · 2026-07-13

£11K

Strategic Advice to support the Young People and Work Report - Awarded Contract

Bloom Procurement Services Ltd · 2026-07-10

£149K

Vocalink Fixed Extranet Maintenance Services

Vocalink International Limited · 2026-07-09

£446K

Crown Hosting Service

Crown Hosting Data Centres Limited · 2026-06-30

£11.9M

Public Cloud Services (G-Cloud 14)

Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL, UK Branch · 2026-06-30

£3.1M

Functional Assessment Services (FAS) -Lot 4

Ingeus UK Limited · 2026-06-23

£755.3M

NLA Media Access Licence for Newspaper Content

NLA Media Access · 2026-06-17

£249K

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

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Open Department for Work & Pensions tenders

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Enforcement Services for the Child Maintenance Service

Deadline: 2026-08-11

£3.5M

Short Term Payment Contingency

Deadline: 2026-09-06

£2.7M

Sponsor Bank Service

Deadline: 2026-09-06

£1.4M

Short Term Payment Contingency

Deadline: 2026-09-21

£2.7M

Short Term Payment Contingency

Deadline: 2026-10-02

£2.7M

Sponsor Bank Service

Deadline: 2026-10-02

£1.4M

Transitional Arrangement - Media Buying

£958K

Future Employment Support

Round 2 of Market Engagement for Property Legal Services 3

Open Referral Tool

Open Referral Tool

Open Referral Tool

Open Referral Tool

Actian Software License Subscription Renewal (2026 - 2029)

£3.5M

HHSQ Security

HHSQ Security

Transcription Services

£350K

Enforcement Services for the Child Maintenance Services

£3.7M

Front of House Translation Tool

DWP Estates 2030 Programme Support

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.

Lived Experiences of Adequacy in Retirement

Expires: 2026-08-02

£65K

Legal Services Scotland -Conflict of Interest Supplier

Expires: 2026-08-03

£5K

Contract Award -Legal Services Scotland for the Child Maintenance Service

Expires: 2026-08-03

£6.6M

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

L4 Digital Forensic Technician ST1343 Apprenticeship ecm_12198

Expires: 2026-08-31

£270K

British Computer Society Membership 2025/2026

Expires: 2026-08-31

£98K

Technical Solution Development (Bereavement and Care)

Expires: 2026-08-31

£3.0M

British Computer Society Membership 2025/2026

Expires: 2026-08-31

£98K

Hybrid Cloud Engineering Operations Services

Expires: 2026-09-03

£3.0M

Learning and Development Planning Solution

Expires: 2026-09-03

£77K

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

Integration Transformation Resources

Expires: 2026-09-30

£4.0M

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

Expires: 2026-09-30

£11.4M

Strategic Advice to support the Young People and Work Report - Awarded Contract

Expires: 2026-09-30

£149K

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

Diffuse Mesothelioma Payment Scheme (DMPS) Levy Collection

Expires: 2026-11-03

£181K

API Enterprise Software

Expires: 2026-11-07

£2.2M

itSMF Conference November 2026

Expires: 2026-11-10

£15K

itSMF Conference November 2026

Expires: 2026-11-10

£15K

Content Creator Level 3 Apprenticeship ST0105

Expires: 2026-11-10

£4K

Leading Design Conference November 2026

Expires: 2026-11-12

£25K

Leading Design Conference November 2026

Expires: 2026-11-12

£25K

CISCO Licenses 23/24

Expires: 2026-11-17

£3K

Elastic License Renewal

Expires: 2026-11-19

£69K

DWP Hyperscale Public Cloud Procurement 2023 (OGVA2)

Expires: 2026-11-30

£94.2M

Coaching Level 5 Apprenticeship ST0809

Expires: 2026-11-30

£2K

DWP Hyperscale Public Cloud Procurement 2023 (OGVA2)

Expires: 2026-11-30

£94.2M

On Premise Hosting (OPH) Network Refresh

Expires: 2026-12-07

£4.9M

New Payment Exception Service

Expires: 2026-12-07

£9.0M

Intranet 2022

Expires: 2026-12-08

£10.6M

Counter Fraud and Error Development

Expires: 2026-12-12

£12.8M

Market analysis

Bidding into Department for Work & Pensions — what to expect

Supplier concentration and timing patterns that shape SME bid strategy.

60%

Top-5 supplier share

259d

Avg response window

52d

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 1,009 contracts totalling £52.5bn between 2023-08-01 and 2026-08-01, working with 581 unique suppliers. Average contract value is £54.2M.

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 60% of contract value.

What does Department for Work & Pensions buy from suppliers?

Department for Work & Pensions's procurement is concentrated in business and management consultancy services, personnel services except placement and supply services, miscellaneous health services, 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 52 days to respond (average 259 days). Standard contract duration is around 20 months.

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Sources & methodology

How this profile is compiled

Analysed by ENKII · Updated 2026-08-01

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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