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DWP

DWP 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: 2023-11-08 to 2026-11-08Updated 2026-11-08

£831.2M

Total spend

38

Contract awards

32

Unique suppliers

£21.9M

Avg contract

According to ENKII, DWP has awarded 38 contracts worth £831.2M to 32 suppliers between 2023-11-08 and 2026-11-08, at an average contract value of £21.9M, with the top five suppliers holding 95% of contract value.

Top suppliers

Top suppliers to DWP

Top-five suppliers hold 95% of contract value — a concentrated market.

SupplierAwardsTotal value
Capita Business Services Ltd1£606.6M
Clarity1£89.8M
Capgemini UK plc2£65.0M
Accenture (UK) Ltd2£16.3M
Reward Gateway (UK) Ltd1£10.7M
Invotra Limited1£8.6M
Scott Logic Ltd1£6.5M
Credera Limited1£6.1M
Experian Limited1£3.7M
SAS Software Ltd1£2.8M
IBM United Kingdom Ltd1£2.2M
Calder Conferences Limited1£2.1M
Opencast Software Europe Limited1£1.7M
UBDS IT Consulting Limited2£1.5M
LinkedIn Technology Limited1£1.2M
Softcat Limited1£1.1M
Denodo Technologies Limited1£985K
Specsavers Optical Superstores Ltd1£750K
Computacenter (UK) Ltd1£600K
Tata Consultancy Services1£588K

Procurement categories

What DWP buys

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

IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

72
24 awards£720.4M

Software package and information systems

48
6 awards£7.0M

Petroleum products, fuel, electricity and other sources of energy

09
2 awards£226K

Radio, television, communication, telecommunication and related equipment

32
1 award£25K

Supporting and auxiliary transport services; travel agencies services

63
1 award£89.8M

Research and development services and related consultancy services

73
1 award£200K

Administration, defence and social security services

75
1 award£10.7M

Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security

79
1 award£2.1M

Health and social work services

85
1 award£750K

Recent contracts

Latest DWP contracts awarded

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

CMS Migration BaNCS Product Migration to OCI support

Tata Consultancy Services · 2026-10-27

£588K

Intranet - End of Life

Invotra Limited · 2026-10-14

£8.6M

Future Sourcing, Representativeness and Use of Online Job Advert Data

Frontier Economics · 2026-10-13

£200K

AWS and OPH Stat Xplore relet

BedigitalUK Ltd · 2026-09-20

£422K

Data Warehouse Route to Cloud

Credera Limited · 2026-09-17

£6.1M

Strategic Central Cloud Platform Team Services

Accenture (UK) Ltd · 2026-09-10

£12.1M

Data Bridge - Data Virtualisation Software

Denodo Technologies Limited · 2026-09-09

£985K

Parliamentary TV maintenance

Whitehall TV Services Ltd · 2026-06-21

£157K

Parliamentary TV supply and installation

Whitehall TV Services Ltd · 2026-06-03

£25K

LinkedIn 2026-2029

LinkedIn Technology Limited · 2026-05-25

£1.2M

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Market analysis

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Supplier concentration and timing patterns that shape SME bid strategy.

23%

Awards to SMEs

95%

Top-5 supplier share

95%

Framework call-offs

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Awards to social enterprises

Around 23% of DWP’s classified awards go to small and medium-sized enterprises. Around 95%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 DWP

How much does DWP spend on procurement?

DWP awarded 38 contracts totalling £831.2M between 2023-11-08 and 2026-11-08, working with 32 unique suppliers. Average contract value is £21.9M.

Who are DWP's top suppliers?

The largest suppliers to DWP by total award value are Capita Business Services Ltd, Clarity, Capgemini UK plc. The top five suppliers together hold 95% of contract value.

What does DWP buy from suppliers?

DWP's procurement is concentrated in it services: consulting, software development, internet and support, software package and information systems, petroleum products, fuel, electricity and other sources of energy, alongside specialist categories. See the full CPV breakdown below.

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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

  • · Find a Tender (find-tender.service.gov.uk)
  • · Contracts Finder
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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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