Department for Work and Pensions

What they have awarded, by year

Our award history is not continuous. We hold notices published January 2021 to July 2022, and September 2022 to November 2022, and July 2023 to August 2026, and nothing published between December 2022 and June 2023 — a gap of 7 months. Any period overlapping that gap is understated here, and the change between periods is not a market trend.

• 2024£2,375,129,319 · 223
• 2025£3,194,644,860 · 269
• 2026£1,620,898,229 · 186

Years with no bar are years we hold no award notices for this buyer — which may mean they bought nothing, or that we do not have that period. We do not fill gaps in.

What they buy

• IT services383 contracts
• Education182 contracts
• Business services121 contracts
• Software87 contracts
• CPV 7342 contracts
• Architecture & engineering28 contracts
• Office & IT equipment19 contracts
• CPV 3217 contracts
• Health & social16 contracts
• Furniture10 contracts

Who wins their work

• Capgemini UK plc20 awards
• IBM United Kingdom Limited16 awards
• Deloitte LLP14 awards
• Oracle Corporation UK Limited11 awards
• Computacenter (UK) Ltd9 awards
• Softcat PLC9 awards
• CDW Limited8 awards
• IFF Research Limited7 awards
• Accenture (UK) Limited7 awards
• Maximus UK Services Limited7 awards

How contested their contracts are

Of the awards that report it, the average was 5.4 bidders, and 6 were awarded to a single bidder — 22% of that sample.

Based on the 27 of 944 awards that publish a bidder count — buyers are not required to, and most do not.

How often they buy

Across the period we hold, Department for Work and Pensions has awarded a contract roughly every 0.3 months on average.

That is an average across all their categories, not a schedule — and it is not a prediction of when any particular contract comes up. UK award notices almost never publish a contract end date, so nobody can build a reliable expiry calendar from open data. Why that is, and what works instead.