Spend profile

Award value by month — rolling 24 months. Line shows 12-month moving average.

£168.8m
12 m spend
£2.1bn
Prior 12 m
-92%
YoY change
£389k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Department for Work & Pensions — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£374m£749m£1123m£1497mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

Forward flow — planned notices through to completed awards in the last 90 days.

Planned

41

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

1

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

10

£79.6m

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

How this buyer procures — by procedure, instrument, and publication source.

Contract type

Unspecified895 · £18.3bn
services101 · £1.7bn
goods4 · £5.2m

Instrument type

contract958 · £19.3bn
call off42 · £652.6m
Source:Contracts Finder: 842Find a Tender: 158

Awarded contracts · 141 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Department for Work & Pensions is the contracting authority.

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Top suppliers · by total award value

Ranked by cumulative awarded value. YoY = last 12 months vs prior 12 months.

1
AI
6 contracts · 31 Jul21 Nov
£1.7bn
2
IM
1 contract · 23 Aug
£1.4bn
3
CB
4 contracts · 31 Jul05 Oct
£884.0m
4
TL
1 contract · 19 Jun
£694.0m
5
IU
4 contracts · 18 Sept31 Jan
£512.3m
6
MU
2 contracts · SME · 18 Sept05 Oct
£485.0m
7
RI
2 contracts · SME · 18 Sept05 Oct
£485.0m
8
SP
2 contracts · SME · 18 Sept05 Oct
£485.0m
9480
···
472 other suppliers
long tail · 160 SMEs
£8.9bn

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Government administration
35 contracts
£8.3bn
43%
Health & social work
16 contracts
£5.0bn
26%
Business, legal, advisory
85 contracts
£2.7bn
14%
Software packages, IT
88 contracts
£1.7bn
9%
IT services, software
383 contracts
£1.2bn
6%
Repair & maintenance
6 contracts
£237.9m
1%
Education, training
72 contracts
£159.5m
1%
Other community services
5 contracts
£140.1m
1%

Activity heatmap

Award volume by CPV division × month. Darker = more £ awarded.

Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Government administration
Health & social work
Business, legal, advisory
20
Software packages, IT
1
2
IT services, software
0
15
20
0
2
40
22
21
21
Repair & maintenance
LessMore (£m awarded)

Commercial & procurement leadership

Who signs off contracts, owns frameworks and runs SME engagement.

Coming Q3 2026

Curated leadership roster

Chief commercial officer, framework owners, SME lead and clinical sign-offs per buyer. Top-50 contracting authorities first, rolling out by sector.

Modifications · 3 in 90 d

Variations logged under Procurement Act 2023 s.74. Above-tolerance modifications attract a flag.

Coming Q3 2026

Per-modification s.74 classification + tolerance flagging

We see 3 notices tagged with a modification flag in the last 90 d. Next phase parses each one against PA 2023 s.74 limbs and surfaces above-tolerance flags.

Compliance & transparency

FOIA performance, statutory disclosures & prompt payment.

Coming Q4 2026

FOIA & prompt-payment ingestion

Notice timeliness and modification flags are derivable today. FOIA refusal rate, prompt-payment %, KPI reporting and net-zero plans need new data sources — work scoped, ingestion next quarter.

SME & social value

Performance against Cabinet Office targets & PPN 06/20.

28%
SME supplier share
target 33%
244
SME award rows
25
VCSE award rows
480
Distinct suppliers
⚠ Below target. SME supplier share at 28% vs Cabinet Office target of 33%.

Peer benchmark

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News mentions

Major UK press & trade publications.

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Statutory & accountability

Legal status, identifiers & accountable officers.

Identifiers & contact

Type
Contracting authority
Region
UK
Contact
Cathryn McCrink
Email
cdestates.categoryteam@dwp.gov.uk

Board & accountable officers

Coming Q3 2026

Accountable officer + board roster

Pulled from gov.uk for arm's-length bodies and from Companies House for company-form buyers — chair, CEO, SRO and sign-off authority per contract band.

Resources

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