Department for Work & Pensions: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
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Tenders you can still bid for.
Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.
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Notices published in the last 12 months.
Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.
Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.
Based on 19 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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How much of this buyer’s work goes to its three most frequent suppliers.
Share of its awarded tenders that name at least one of the top three. Each tender is counted once.
340 awarded tenders, 203 different suppliers.
Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.
A likely retender, not a certain one.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
Open notices
1 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
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| Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for Employment and Health Related Test and Learn Provision | 10 Feb 2029 | 864d | £20,000,000 |
What they buyi
What kind of work is bought here.
Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.
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What kind of work is bought here.
Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.
Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each
72 IT services: consulting, software, internet36 procedures · 15%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting22 procedures · 9%48 Software package and information systems10 procedures · 4%75 Administration, defence and social security10 procedures · 4%85 Health and social work services9 procedures · 4%80 Education and training services8 procedures · 3% · 1 open66 Financial and insurance services8 procedures · 3%70 Real estate services6 procedures · 2%How they buyi
How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
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How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
Last 24 months · 241 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim
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How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
- Contract 95% (230 notices)
- Framework 3% (8 notices)
- Dynamic purchasing system 1% (3 notices)
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Which procedures buyers here use.
Notices by the procedure they declare: open, selective, limited or direct. Open and selective are competitions; limited and direct are not.
- Direct award 56% (135 notices)
- Route not published 17% (41 notices)
- Open 10% (24 notices)
- Selective 10% (24 notices)
- Limited / restricted 7% (17 notices)
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.
Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.
Based on 19 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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How long this buyer takes to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from deadline to first award notice, on this buyer’s own tenders.
Based on 7 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Based on 243 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
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Do this buyer’s awards land above or below its own estimates.
Each lot’s published estimate against its award, on this buyer’s competitions, like for like.
Based on 15 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
Who wins herei
Which suppliers win the most here.
Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.
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Which suppliers win the most here.
Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.
All published awards naming a supplier · ranked by distinct procedures, not pounds · panel and call-off entries inflate award records
| Supplier | Procedures | Share | Last 24m | Award records | Last activity |
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| MAXIMUS UK SERVICES LIMITED | 16 | 4.7% | 2 | 19 | 17 Jul 2026 |
| Reed in Partnership Ltd | 15 | 4.4% | 0 | 16 | 11 Jul 2024 |
| Atos IT Services UK Limited | 13 | 3.8% | 0 | 13 | 27 Mar 2024 |
| Capita Business Services Ltd | 12 | 3.5% | 4 | 17 | 17 Jul 2026 |
| Ingeus UK Limited | 10 | 2.9% | 1 | 15 | 17 Jul 2026 |
| Ernst and Young LLP | 9 | 2.6% | 8 | 9 | 29 Jul 2026 |
| PROGRESSION DEVELOPMENT LTD | 7 | 2.1% | 7 | 7 | 12 Aug 2026 |
| Serco Limited | 7 | 2.1% | 3 | 10 | 17 Jul 2026 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 12% of 340 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 203 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards — not a statement of preference.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
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What one of this buyer’s contracts is usually worth.
Middle value of the same awards as the total above.
Largest published awards iThe biggest published awards. Awards to a single supplier with a published value, largest first, so you can check the totals against the notice. A repeated framework total can appear here. Open the notice to check. | Supplier | Awarded | Term | Published value |
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| Functional Assessment Services (FAS) 2023 – Lot 1 | MAXIMUS UK SERVICES LIMITED | — | 8 yrs | £942,350,728 † ≈ £118m/yr |
| Functional Assessment Services (FAS) 2023 – Lot 1 | MAXIMUS UK SERVICES LIMITED | — | 8 yrs | £933,737,833 † ≈ £117m/yr |
| The Functional Assessment Service Lot 1 (Northern England and Scotland) | MAXIMUS UK SERVICES LIMITED | — | — | £918,148,703 † |
| DWP Estates Security Services Contract | G4S secure Solutions (UK) Ltd | — | — | £904,940,000 † |
| Synergy Business Process Services (BPS) | Capita Business Services Ltd | — | — | £873,410,000 † |
Contracts endingi
Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.
A likely retender, not a certain one.
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.
A likely retender, not a certain one.
Published end dates only · 272 of 389 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Digital Corporate Services | Cognizant Worldwide Ltd | 30 Sept 2026 | £0 |
| Practical Accessibility | Bunnyfoot Ltd. | 30 Sept 2026 | £11,190 |
| Visual Facilitation Training | ADVANCED PEOPLE STRATEGIES LIMITED | 1 Oct 2026 | £13,440 |
| Practical Accessibility | THIS IS GAIN LTD | 1 Oct 2026 | £11,190 |
| ISF Membership | Information Security Forum | 31 Oct 2026 | £17,000 |
| TLS & PKI | PROGRESSION DEVELOPMENT LTD | 1 Nov 2026 | £18,000 |
| The Work Health Conversation - an educational package | THE AT WORK PARTNERSHIP LTD | 1 Nov 2026 | £37,500 |
| Diffuse Mesothelioma Payment Scheme (DMPS) Levy Collection | Tracing Services Ltd | 3 Nov 2026 | £257,842 |
| Communications Data Investigations Single Point of Contact (CDI SPoC) training. | College of Policing | 8 Nov 2026 | £18,903 |
| ecm_11975 ( Now C4617) Managed Enforcement Services for the Child Maintenance Service | QUALCO UK | 9 Nov 2026 | £1,116,760 |
Soonest 10 of 62 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 430 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| The 'Foundations of Internal Auditing (FIA)' qualification | Awarded / complete | 21 Jul 2026 | — |
| Technical DevOps services for DWP Tech Debt registerIT services: consulting | Awarded / complete | 17 Jul 2026 | — |
| Functional Assessment Services (FAS) 2023 – Lot 5Health and social work services | Awarded / complete | 17 Jul 2026 | £2,796,800,000 |
| Hootsuite CVID 702946 | Awarded / complete | 17 Jul 2026 | — |
| Workplace Services Procurement Programme Support (WPSPPS)Project management consultancy services | Awarded / complete | 17 Jul 2026 | — |
| Workplace Services Procurement Programme Support (WPSPPS)Project management consultancy services | Awarded / complete | 17 Jul 2026 | — |
| Women into Leadership 2026 | Awarded / complete | 16 Jul 2026 | — |
| MSc Cyber Security | Awarded / complete | 15 Jul 2026 | — |
| Autism Internship Programme | Awarded / complete | 14 Jul 2026 | — |
Data coverage & method
- Source: Find a Tender OCDS releases; mixed PCR 2015 / Procurement Act 2023 history — no legal-regime label is applied.
- Counts are procedures (one notice family), not lots. Authority cluster = canonical buyer plus beneficiary and procuring-entity roles.
- Published procedure values exist on a minority of notices; their lifetime sum (£2.2bn, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 232 award records on 190 procedures (230 to a single canonical supplier, 2 multi-supplier). 173 values come from the contract record when the award carried none.
- Bid counts, deadline-to-award, amendments and award-vs-estimate come from the nightly buyer analytics row; each figure’s own method and sample is behind its , the long form on Methodology.
- Contract end dates: 272 of 389 published contracts carry a period end; 62 end within 18 months, 33 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (58 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)
Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.
+34 further identifiers not listed here.
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