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MOJ Procurement Profile (2026): Suppliers, Spend & Key Contracts

MOJ Procurement Profile (2026): Suppliers, Spend & Key Contracts

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The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is one of the UK's largest public sector buyers, spending an estimated £6.3 billion directly with suppliers in 2025 alone.

This procurement profile explores MoJ'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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MOJ Key Stats - Tussell

 

 

What is the Ministry of Justice (MoJ)?

MoJ is the UK Central Government department responsible for England & Wales' justice system, overseeing courts, prisons, probation services, legal aid, and policies that ensure the fair, efficient, and secure administration of justice.

The department - headquartered at 102 Petty France, Westminster, London - is supported by 35 Non-Ministerial Departments, Executive Agencies, and Non-Departmental Public Bodies.

The four largest MoJ bodies (ranked by procurement spending) are HM Prison & Probation Services, the Central Department itself, HM Courts & Tribunals Service, and Legal Aid Agency.

These four buyers accounted for 97% of MoJ's total procurement spending in 2024 (the last full year for which invoice-level MoJ spending data is available). (Tussell). 

 

 

What is the structure of MoJ?

MoJ is more than a single buying organisation. The core department has a headcount of 8,391 (MoJ, 2026), but its wider group includes 35 agencies and arm's-length bodies with their own budgets and procurement functions. HM Prison and Probation Service alone employs more than 70,000 staff.

Other public sector justice bodies such as the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and UK Supreme Court procure independently, and are not directly tied to MoJ. Instead, CPS works with the Attorney General's Office alongside the Government Legal Department, Serious Fraud Office, and HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate.


Below the national level, local police forces and the Judiciary of England and Wales also form a part of the justice system. Police forces also procure independently, whereas MoJ and its agencies procure on behalf of the courts.

Key committees and boards within MoJ include the:

  • Departmental Board - overall strategy, performance and governance

  • Executive Committee - senior operational decision-making

  • Audit and Risk Assurance Committee - risk, controls and major programme assurance

  • Nominations Committee - senior leadership and succession planning

  • Investment Committee - investment decisions

  • Finance, Performance & Risk Committee - scrutinising, challenging and supporting departmental delivery

  • Portfolio Committee - oversight of major change portfolio 

 


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

MoJ is currently supported by 35 agencies and public bodies. These include:

Executive agencies

Executive non-departmental public bodies

Advisory non-departmental public bodies

Other bodies


Who are the key stakeholders and decision-makers at MoJ?

Political, departmental and commercial leadership is spread across MoJ.

Its current ministerial team comprises:

  • Alex Norris - Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice

  • Catherine McKinnell - Minister of State for Prisons, Probation and Reducing Reoffending

  • Sarah Sackman -  Minister of State for Courts and Legal Services

  • Alex Davies-Jones - Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Victims and Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls

  • Baron Lemos - Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State and Lords Minister

  • Jake Richards - Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Sentencing, Youth Justice and International

Beyond ministers, Tussell identifies 179 key decision-makers across MoJ’s services and procurement categories. Tussell users can access their contact details, including email addresses and LinkedIn profiles.

 

 

What are MoJ's strategic priorities?

The MoJ measures success against three strategic outcomes:

  • Outcome 1 - Punishment that cuts crime
  • Outcome 2 – Swifter justice for victims
  • Outcome 3 – A beacon for justice and the rule of law

To support these outcomes, its longer-term strategic priorities include a 10-year capacity strategy to get prisons built quickly, create 14,000 new prison places by 2031, modernise the prison estate, and increase community monitoring through electronic tagging.

MoJ has also been allocated up to £450m annually through FY28/29 to boost court productivity and reduce backlogs. 

Other significant commitments and projects include:

  • A comprehensive Youth Justice Overhaul

  • The MoJ Nature Strategy.

 

What are MoJ's social value goals?

MoJ’s social value goals are shaped by the Central Government Social Value Model. This model means MoJ 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 in-scope, above-threshold MoJ 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 MoJ spend on procurement?

Tussell estimates MoJ and its agencies' 2025 procurement spending at around £6.3bn, although this remains provisional because the department has not yet published its invoices for November and December. (Learn more about the Central Government invoice publishing gap).

According to Tussell's market intelligence platform, MoJ procurement spending has risen by 62% since 2019 - or 25% in real terms.

MOJ procurement spending over time

HM Prison & Probation Service is the highest spending MoJ buyer, accounting for more than 50% of the department's total procurement outlay. This includes significant spending on prison operation and maintenance.

 

What does MoJ spend money on?

Data from the Tussell platform shows that almost 20% of MoJ's procurement spending is with facilities management firms, reflecting the department's large, secure prison estate.

A further 18.2% of spending is directed towards construction and engineering providers.

The rest of MoJ's procurement spending is split across a range of other sectors including IT & Digital, Administration & Support Services, and Professional Services.

MOJ spending, by sector

 

MoJ's procurement split (as of 2024)

  • Facilities Management - 19.7%

  • Construction & Engineering - 18.2%

  • IT & Digital - 9.8%

  • Other / Unknown - 9.1%

  • Administration & Support Services - 8.4%

  • Professional Services - 7.2%

  • Legal Services - 5.9%

  • Recruitment & HR - 4.2%

  • Transportation & Storage - 4.1%

  • Utilities - 3.4%

  • Telecoms - 2.8%

  • Health & Social Work - 2.1%

  • Real Estate & Property - 1.9%

  • Employability & Skills - 1.7%

  • Management Consulting - 1.5%

     

 

Which firms are MoJ's top suppliers?

Nine of MoJ's ten largest private sector suppliers are construction, facilities management and security firms with heavy involvement in the day-to-day running, building and maintenance of the UK prison estate. These include Kier, Serco, Wates, and security contractor G4S.

IT reseller and technology-services provider, Trustmarque, is the MoJ's tenth largest supplier when ranked by revenue derived from the department.

As a Central Government department, the Ministry of Justice also maintains strategic supplier relationships through the Cabinet Office's Strategic Supplier programme. Five of these Strategic Suppliers rank among the Ministry of Justice's ten largest suppliers by procurement spend.

MOJ top suppliers

MoJ's top suppliers by direct spending (as of 2024)

  • Kier - £500 million

  • Serco - £248 million

  • Wates - £240 million

  • Semperian - £222 million

  • Amey - £219 million

  • G4S - £203 million

  • OCS - £147 million

  • Equans - £145 million

  • Sodexo - £130 million

  • Trustmarque - £123 million

 

Which framework agreements does MoJ use?

In 2025, the Ministry of Justice used 59 distinct framework agreements across a wide range of procurement categories.

By call-off value, its top live framework in 2025 was RM6288 Workforce Solutions.

According to Tussell's market intelligence platform, MoJ and its executive agencies use frameworks for at least 65% of above-threshold procurements. Securing a place on the right frameworks - or partnering with suppliers already appointed to them - is therefore a critical route to winning business with the department.

Want to see which contracts MoJ awarded through these frameworks? Book in a demo of Tussell's framework analytics.

 

Where do future MoJ opportunities lie?

Tussell's market intelligence platform identifies 349 MoJ contracts due to expire - and likely to be reprocured - in 2027. More than three quarters of those were awarded via a framework agreement or DPS.

However, contract expiries tell only part of the story.

The MoJ is investing heavily in prisons, facilities, and tech. And, suppliers that monitor early buying signals - not just published tenders - will be best placed to engage before procurements formally begin.

 

 

What is in MoJ's procurement pipeline?

Tussell's analysis of early MoJ buying signals indicates significant future demand across the IT & Digital, Citizen Services, and Professional Services sectors.

MoJ's early buying signals analysed (H1 2026)

  • IT & Digital (20 early buying signals)

  • Citizen Services (17 early buying signals)

  • Professional Services (16 early buying signals)

  • Business Process Outsourcing (8 early buying signals)

  • Facilities Management (6 early buying signals)

  • Machinery & Equipment (4 early buying signals)

  • Health & Social Care (3 early buying signals)

  • Construction & Engineering (3 early buying signals)

  • Other (2 early buying signals)

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

MOJ future pipeline

 


 

How to win more MoJ contracts

Winning business with MoJ requires more than monitoring published tenders. The department's complex structure, multiple buying organisations and mix of procurement routes mean that suppliers who engage early and in the right places have a significant advantage over those who wait for contracts to appear on Find a Tender.

In practice, the most effective approach combines several things:

  • Understand the structure. MoJ procurement spans the central department, HM Courts & Tribunals Service, HM Prison and Probation Service, and 33 other arm's length bodies, each with their own procurement teams and budgets. Knowing which organisation is actually buying - and at what level - determines who you need to talk to.

  • Get on the right frameworks. Almost two-thirds of above-threshold MoJ contracts are called off through a framework agreement. This makes a strong framework strategy vital to growing in this account. 59 unique framework agreements were used by MoJ in 2025. Suppliers without framework access either miss those opportunities entirely or need a partner that does hold a place.

  • Monitor the pipeline before it goes to tender. Competitive advantage is often built 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 MoJ 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.