Cabinet Office: tenders, sectors & how to win their contracts

Cabinet Office has published 73 tenders in United Kingdom.

Its buying spans 12 CPV divisions, most often business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing, security.

Across 27 awarded contracts the median value is £225k.

Its published awards total £600.2m.

How to win their contracts

Measured from Cabinet Office's own published record — no estimates, no generic advice.

Plan for about 17 days to prepare a bid — that is the median gap between publication and deadline across 6 of their tenders.
They publish about 1.1 tenders a month, measured over 65 months of history.
Half of their 27 awarded contracts are worth £225k or less — size your bid to that range.
Most of their buying falls in business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing, security, it services: consulting, software development, internet and support, education and training services.
Their most frequent suppliers are KPMG LLP (3), Ernst & Young LLP (2), Epiq Systems Ltd (2) — expect to bid against incumbents who already know this buyer.

Tender	Winner	Tender closed	Contract Value
Cabinet Office SaaS Requirement	Epiq Systems Ltd	27 February 2026	£134.7k
Manston Inquiry e-Disclosure Platform	Epiq Systems Ltd	26 February 2026	£124.1k
Host, manage, maintain and running of The National Security ...	CGI IT UK Limited	1 August 2023	£0
Recruitment Advertising and Media Buying	TMP Worldwide LTD	20 June 2022	£2.9m
CO NEBM Covid Inquiry	Odgers Berndtson	10 June 2022	£50k
CSR/128 - The Civil Service Central Government Apprenticeshi...	Lifetime Training Group LTD	30 May 2022	£43.8m

Supplier	Contracts	Total Value
KPMG LLP	3	£451m
Ernst & Young LLP	2	£83.2m
Epiq Systems Ltd	2	£258.7k
Satellite Applications Catapult Ltd	2	£70.4k