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DWP procurement policies and procedures

This collection brings together the policies and procedures for procurement at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).

The department follows the policies and procedures in the documents listed here.

Read more about procurement at DWP.

Diversity and equality requirements

Government Buying Standards

Life chances through procurement

Low Value Provision (LVP)

LVP is used to provide short vocational and occupational training to claimants who have a job offer or need training to be able to compete for vacancies in their local labour market.

Offshoring policy

Security policies and standards

These apply to DWP suppliers and contractors where explicitly stated in the security schedule of the contract.

No purchase order, no pay policy

Services in Wales

Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs)

Sustainable procurement strategy

Terms and conditions of contract

The model terms and conditions are applied to all contracts where the anticipated contract value is over £10,000.

The general terms and conditions are applied to low value and low risk requirements below £10,000.

In addition, the Model Services Contract and the Combined Schedules to the Model Services Contract are applied to IT delivery and business process outsourcing with a likely contract value of £10m or more.

Suppliers should also always refer to the specific terms and conditions issued as part of a procurement tender exercise.

Updates to this page

Published 21 October 2013
Last updated 9 January 2023 + show all updates
  1. DWP has introduced a 'No purchase order, no pay' policy. The policy covers all DWP suppliers unless you operate with us under an exception agreement. This means that DWP won't pay you unless you quote a valid DWP Purchase Order number on your invoice. This policy aims to strengthen financial controls and increase compliance. This has been added as item 9 on the DWP procurement page, which follows the Security policies and standards section.

  2. Link added to 'Provider Referrals and Payments (PRaP) system for DWP' information.

  3. Low Value Provision (LVP) information added to the document collection.

  4. First published.