Awarded contract

Financial Times Direct Award

Details

Buyer: Department For Work and Pensions (DWP)
Supplier(s): Financial Times Ltd
Value: £13,547
Duration: 9 months
Topic: Subscription services
Published: 19 June 2026
Source: uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

Subscription to newspaper services, digital and hardcopies. Please note contract dates are as follows: 18.03.2026 -17.03.2027. This has been published retrospectively. ## Contract award

Timeline

Completed: Award published19 June 2026
Current notice
Completed: Award date19 June 2026
Next: Contract expiry date17 March 2027in 4 months

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