Closed tender

Payment Exception Project

Details

Buyer: Department For Work and Pensions (DWP)
Value: £22,532,075
Topic: Financial and insurance services
Published: 9 September 2025
Submission: 27 October 2025
Source: uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

Payment Exception Project is a cash-out service required to fulfil the Secretary of State obligation to ensure payment of entitlement to customers who do not have a transactional account (bank, building society, credit union). The service supports unbanked customers to receive payment of entitlement through an alternate method of payment to that of the BACS payment process, on a date of payment entitlement.

Timeline

Completed: Tender published9 September 2025
Current notice
Completed: Submission date27 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. 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.

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