Department for Work and Pensions: tenders, sectors & how to win their contracts

Department for Work and Pensions has published 169 tenders in United Kingdom.

Its buying spans 12 CPV divisions, most often education and training services.

Across 49 awarded contracts the median value is £4.7m.

Its published awards total £7.5bn.

How to win their contracts

Measured from Department for Work and Pensions's own published record — no estimates, no generic advice.

Plan for about 32 days to prepare a bid — that is the median gap between publication and deadline across 15 of their tenders.
They publish about 2.6 tenders a month, measured over 64 months of history.
Half of their 49 awarded contracts are worth £4.7m or less — size your bid to that range.
Most of their buying falls in education and training services, business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing, security, health and social work services.
Their most frequent suppliers are Maximus UK Services Ltd (3), Oracle Corporation UK Limited (3), IBM UK Ltd (2) — expect to bid against incumbents who already know this buyer.

Tender	Winner	Tender closed	Contract Value
Data and Analytics On Premises Subscription Licences, Suppor...	DWP	20 June 2023	£4m
Access to Work: Holistic Assessment (ATW:HA)	Reed In Partnership Limited	30 May 2023	£18.1m
Library Services	EBSCO INTERNATIONAL INC	1 April 2023	£236.3k
Library Services - Bookboon	Access UK Ltd.	1 April 2023	£201.7k
Provision of Library, Journals and Subscription Services	Prenax Ltd	1 April 2023	£176.7k
Library Services - Prenax	Prenax Ltd	1 April 2023	£215.5k

Supplier	Contracts	Total Value
Maximus UK Services Ltd	3	£474.9m
Oracle Corporation UK Limited	3	£4.4m
IBM UK Ltd	2	£23.4m
Serco Ltd.	2	£20.1m
Prenax Ltd	2	£392.1k
Shakespeare Martineau LLP	2	£196.9k