Expired contract

Sustainable AI

Details

Buyer: Department For Work and Pensions (DWP)
Supplier(s): IT Climate Ed, LLC
Value: £10,000
Topic: Staff training services
Published: 3 September 2025
Source: uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

AI is key to the departments strategy - understanding how we use it sustainably when developing services is key to the implementation of our strategy This course is designed to help develop capability • Week 1: Environmental Impact of AI, Measuring AI's carbon footprint • Week 2: Sufficiency best practices and applications • Week 3: AI optimization strategies (training and inference),ROI of sustainable AI • Week 4: capstone project presentations in the DWP Digital supplier management sphere This will provide some capability to key experts in the department and to validate appropriateness for a wider audience. This is a test and learn exercise to build capability and look at how the training can be used for a wider audience in an appropriate manner. Processed by SSCL ## Contract award

Timeline

Completed: Award published3 September 2025
Current notice
Completed: Award date3 September 2025
Completed: Contract expiry date2 October 2025

About the buyer

The Department For Work and Pensions (DWP) delivers the State Pension and working-age benefits to millions of claimants, and buys as a central government ministerial department with its own commercial teams. Larger contracts are advertised on Find a Tender, with suppliers registering through the Atamis eSourcing portal. Framework agreements are called off through the Government Commercial Agency using Public Sector Contract terms. Suppliers can join its low value purchasing system freely, with no cap on numbers. Dynamic purchasing systems cover welfare-to-work and employment support opportunities. Commercial teams engage the market early through in-person and online supplier events.

Procurement spend from central entities makes up 66% of overall UK public spend.

Over the past 5 years, most of DWP's contract awards have been in education and training, IT services and business services.

Relevant CPV codes

80511000 · Staff training services

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

Job title	Phone number	Work email
Head of Procurement	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@department-for-work-and-pensions-dwp.gov
Commercial Director	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@department-for-work-and-pensions-dwp.gov
Procurement Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@department-for-work-and-pensions-dwp.gov
Category Lead	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@department-for-work-and-pensions-dwp.gov
Senior Buyer	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@department-for-work-and-pensions-dwp.gov
Contracts Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@department-for-work-and-pensions-dwp.gov