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Digital delivery partner contracts

UK public sector · 112 contracts awarded in the 12 months to 6 October 2026

Covering 600+ buyer portals · 5 years of records · Updated 6 October 2026 · How we count

Contracts awarded
112
Last 12 months
Median contract
£2.9m
Recorded value
Recorded value
£2.0bn
108 of 111 main-service contracts have a published value
Buyers
51
Suppliers
71

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What stands out

  • The five suppliers that won the most digital delivery partner contracts took 27% of them (30 of 112).
  • Contracts awarded per quarter fell 15% from the first half of the period to the second.
  • The median contract, £2.9m, is 26.1 times the median across it & software contracts (£110k).

Who buys digital delivery partner

By contracts awarded, the 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1H M REVENUE & CUSTOMS7 contracts
  2. 2Department of Health and Social Care7 contracts
  3. 3Home Office6 contracts
  4. 4Ministry of Justice6 contracts
  5. 5Department for Education6 contracts
  6. 6NHS England5 contracts
  7. 7Department for Work and Pensions5 contracts
  8. 8Department for Transport4 contracts
  9. 9Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT)4 contracts
  10. 10Arts Council England4 contracts

Top digital delivery partner contractors by contracts won

The 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1TPXimpact8 contracts
  2. 2CGI6 contracts
  3. 3Capgemini6 contracts
  4. 4Kainos5 contracts
  5. 5Deloitte5 contracts
  6. 6Hippo Digital5 contracts
  7. 7IBM4 contracts
  8. 8Answer Digital4 contracts
  9. 9Tata Consultancy Services3 contracts
  10. 10Mphasis UK Limited3 contracts

Latest and largest awards

Each links to the official notice.

Latest

Largest

Contracts awarded by quarter

30Q4 2025*27Q1 202631Q2 202623Q3 20261Q4 2026*
* part quarter

Where the contracts were awarded

England 105 · Wales 5 · Northern Ireland 1 · Scotland 1

London35North West6North East5South West5Wales5Yorkshire and The Humber4West Midlands3South East1Scotland1Northern Ireland1UK-wide or not stated46

What is included

An agile multidisciplinary team, delivery partner or bench of digital specialists that designs, builds and runs a digital service through discovery, alpha, beta and live phases, including live operation of an existing digital service, or supplies delivery capacity to a digital transformation programme.

  • Discovery, alpha, beta and live delivery of a digital service
  • Digital outcomes call-offs
  • Multidisciplinary delivery teams and agile squads
  • Digital transformation delivery partners
  • Benches and frameworks of digital delivery suppliers
  • Product owners, delivery managers, architects and analysts working in a digital team
  • Live-service support of a digital service built this way

What is not included

  • A specified application, tool or integration, or developer-only resource -> it.dev.bespoke-software-development
  • Builds on OutSystems, Power Apps, Pega, Salesforce, Dynamics or ServiceNow -> it.dev.low-code-platform-development
  • Websites and CMS -> it.dev.websites-and-cms
  • Individual contractors placed in the buyer's own teams on time and materials -> it.advice.it-contractors-specialist-resource
  • Organisation-wide transformation consultancy -> it.advice.digital-transformation-consultancy
  • Standalone user research or service design -> it.dev.user-research-and-service-design

Often bought by the same buyers