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Home Office Procurement Profile (2026): Suppliers, Spend & Pipeline

Home Office Procurement Profile (2026): Suppliers, Spend & Pipeline

Posted by Ben Pollard Picture of Ben Pollard on 27 July 2026
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The Home Office (HO) is one of the UK's largest public sector buyers, spending £3.8 billion directly with suppliers in 2025 alone.

This procurement profile explores HO's structure and strategic priorities, before using Tussell's market-leading data to analyse its procurement spending, top suppliers, preferred frameworks and routes to market, key decision-makers, and emerging opportunities.

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What is the Home Office?

The Home Office is the UK Central Government department responsible for immigration and passports, drugs policy, crime, counter-terrorism and police.

The department - headquartered on Marsham Street, London - is supported by 30 Non-Ministerial Departments, Executive Agencies, and Non-Departmental Public Bodies.

 

What is the structure of the Home Office?

The Home Office is more than a single buying organisation.

The core department has a headcount of 48,825 (IfG, 2026), but its wider group includes numerous agencies and arm's-length bodies with their own budgets and procurement functions. The total number of civil servants working at the Home Office and executive agencies is over 54,000.


Whilst the Home Office oversees police services nationally, local police forces procure independently. As such, they often have their own distinct social value priorities, preferred routes to market, and procurement strategies.

Key committees and boards within the Home Office include the:

  • Departmental Board - overall strategy, performance and governance

  • Executive Committee - senior operational decision-making

  • Investment Committee - governance and oversight of significant investment decisions

  • Portfolio Delivery Board - major programme oversight

  • People Committee - workforce strategy, people programmes, etc. 

 

Who are the Home Office's Arm's Length Bodies (ALBs) and Executive Agencies?

The Home Office is currently supported by 30 agencies and public bodies. These include:

Executive non-departmental public bodies

Advisory non-departmental public bodies

Tribunals

Independent monitoring bodies

Ad-hoc advisory groups

Others

 

 

Who are the key stakeholders and decision-makers at the Home Office?

Political, departmental and commercial leadership is spread across the Home Office.

As of July 2026, its current ministerial team comprises:

Beyond ministers, Tussell identifies 132 key decision-makers across Home Office’s service and procurement categories. Tussell users can access their contact details, including email addresses and LinkedIn profiles.

 

What are Home Office's strategic priorities?

The Home Office's Departmental Strategic Delivery Plan for FY26/27 lays out five key objectives for the current financial year:

  • To reduce illegal migration and restore order at the border.

  • To create a migration system that is fair for British citizens and those who contribute.

  • To restore trust in policing, focusing on visible action and the crimes that matter most to communities.

  • To strengthen national security to protect the UK's people, prosperity and freedoms.

  • To transform the Home Office to be high performing, efficient and agile.

Suppliers who can support these missions should be well placed to succeed in this account.

 

What are the Home Office's social value goals?

The Home Office's social value goals are shaped by the Central Government Social Value Model. This model means HO social value should support at least one of five key government aims:

  • Mission 1 - Kick start economic growth

  • Mission 2 - Make Britain a clean energy superpower

  • Mission 3 - Take back our streets

  • Mission 4 - Break down barriers to opportunity

  • Mission 5 - Build an NHS fit for the future

All above-threshold HO procurements are required to assign a minimum 10% weighting to social value as part of the tender evaluation.


However, specific social value expectations will vary by procurement - depending on industry, contract size, and more.

Where possible, suppliers should take part in preliminary market engagements to help shape social value expectations before the tender stage.

 

How much does the Home Office spend on procurement?

According to Tussell's market intelligence platform, HO procurement spending has increased significantly in recent years.

Between 2019 and 2025, direct Home Office spending with private sector suppliers increased by 111% - or 65% in real terms.

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Unlike other departments like DHSC and DfT, the vast majority of Home Office procurement spending is concentrated within the core department itself, with its wider network of executive agencies and arm’s-length bodies accounting for only a relatively small share.

For suppliers, the combination of highly centralised procurement and sustained spending growth creates a relatively concentrated route to market.

Rather than navigating dozens of major buying organisations, firms that understand the Home Office's priorities and engage early with the central department are better positioned to influence and compete for future opportunities.

 

What does the Home Office spend money on?

Data from Tussell's market intelligence platform shows that more than a fifth of the Home Office's procurement spending is with IT and digital suppliers, with a further 13% going to telecommunications providers.

This reflects the department's growing reliance on digital systems, data and communications infrastructure to support policing, border security, immigration and emergency services. The significant telecommunications spend is also caused by the operation of the Emergency Services Network (ESN), one of the UK's largest and most complex public sector technology programmes.

Beyond technology, the Home Office is also a major buyer of real estate, property and facilities management services, driven largely by its asylum accommodation estate, migration management services, and immigration removal centres.

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HO's procurement split (as of 2025)

  • IT & Digital- 21.0%

  • Telecommunications - 13.0%

  • Real Estate & Property - 12.3%

  • Facilities Management - 9.1%

  • Management Consulting - 8.0%

  • Recruitment & HR - 4.8%

  • Professional Services - 4.1%

  • Construction & Engineering - 3.0%

  • Finance & Insurance - 2.1%

  • Other & Unknown - 22.5%

Which firms are the Home Office's top suppliers?

The Home Office's top supplier is Ready Homes, a short-term housing supplier. The firm earned £464m in revenue from the Home Office alone in 2025, primarily derived from its asylum accommodation services.

Other top Home Office suppliers include Mitie and Serco, who also play significant roles in asylum accommodation and immigration detention & security management.

Telecommunications providers Motorola and BT feature in HO's top ten suppliers, alongside consultancy PA Consulting, technology supplier IBM, and recruitment specialist AMS.

As a Central Government department, HO also maintains strategic supplier relationships through the Cabinet Office's Strategic Supplier programme. Four of these Strategic Suppliers rank among the Home Office's ten largest suppliers by procurement spend: Mitie, IBM, Serco and BT.

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The Home Office's top private sector suppliers by direct spending (as of 2025)

  • Ready Homes - £464m

  • Mitie - £282m

  • Motorola (JV) - £268m

  • IBM - £244m

  • Serco - £196m

  • BT - £159m

  • AMS - £111m

  • PA Consulting - £108m

  • Cushman & Wakefield - £97m

  • GallifordTry - £97m

Which framework agreements does the Home Office use?

In 2025, HO used 43 framework agreements across a range of procurement categories - a number significantly lower than most Central Government departments with significant Arms-Length Body procurement activity.

By call-off volume, its most frequently used live framework in 2025 was G-Cloud 14. The Government Commercial Agency's RM6342 Travel, Transport, Accommodation & Venue Solutions accounted for the highest value of framework call-offs.

According to Tussell's market intelligence platform, HO and its executive agencies use frameworks for at least 28% of above-threshold procurements. Securing a place on the right frameworks - or partnering with suppliers already appointed to them - is therefore an important route to winning business with the department.

Want to see which contracts Home Office awarded through these frameworks - and which framework lots are being used? Speak to our team about Tussell's framework analytics.

 

 

Where do future Home Office opportunities lie?

Tussell's market intelligence platform identifies 250 Home Office contracts due to expire - and likely to be reprocured - in 2027. Over a third of these were awarded via a framework agreement.

However, contract expiries tell only part of the story.

HO is investing heavily in technology, property and facilities. And, suppliers that monitor early buying signals - not just published tenders - will be best placed to engage before they get too deep into the planning stage.

 

What is in the Home Office's procurement pipeline?

Tussell's analysis of early Home Office buying signals indicates significant future demand across the citizen services, IT & digital, machinery & health and social care sectors.

Specific opportunities can be identified using Tussell's Early Opportunities Finder, which monitors thousands of pre-procurement sources - including the Home Office's Commercial Procurement Pipeline, strategy papers, and meeting minutes - to surface buying signals before they reach tender stage.

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The Home Office's early buying signals analysed (H1 2026)

  • Citizen Services (31 early buying signals)

  • IT & Digital (29 early buying signals)

  • Health & Social Care (7 early buying signals)

  • Education & Employment (5 early buying signals)

  • BPO (5 early buying signals)

  • Facilities & Operations (3 early buying signals)

  • Property Services (3)

  • Construction & Engineering (3)

  • Machinery & Equipment (3)

  • Other (3 early buying signals)

 

How to win more Home Office contracts

Winning business with the Home Office requires more than monitoring published tenders.

In practice, the most effective approach combines several things:

  • Get on the right frameworks. By value, at least 52% of above-threshold Home Office contracts are awarded via a DPS or framework agreement. G-Cloud 14 is the most active - but the right ones for your firm will depend on your service offering. Suppliers without framework access either miss those opportunities entirely or need a partner that does hold a place.

  • Engage decision-makers early. You can find decision-makers on platforms like Linkedin - or by using Tussell's key decision-makers module.

  • Monitor the pipeline before it goes to tender. The most competitive procurements are won before the ITT is published. Suppliers tracking early buying signals - strategy papers, pipeline publications, meeting minutes - can shape requirements and build relationships months ahead of the formal process.

Want to see what the Home Office is planning before it reaches tender? Tussell combines best-in-class market insights, framework intelligence, key decision-maker contact information, and early buying signals in one place, helping suppliers identify opportunities sooner, build stronger pipeline, and engage before requirements are fixed. Book a chat with our team today.