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Cloud backup contracts

UK public sector · 146 contracts awarded in the 12 months to 6 October 2026

Covering 600+ buyer portals · 5 years of records · Updated 6 October 2026 · How we count

Contracts awarded
146
Last 12 months
Median contract
£90k
Recorded value
Recorded value
£34.8m
136 of 142 main-service contracts have a published value
Buyers
126
Suppliers
55

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What stands out

  • The five suppliers that won the most cloud backup contracts took 47% of them (68 of 146).
  • Contracts awarded per quarter fell 35% from the first half of the period to the second.
  • The median contract, £90k, is 18% below the median across it & software contracts (£110k).

Who buys cloud backup

By contracts awarded, the 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust3 contracts
  2. 2National Audit Office3 contracts
  3. 3Intellectual Property Office2 contracts
  4. 4Citizen Housing2 contracts
  5. 5Care Quality Commission2 contracts
  6. 6Financial Conduct Authority2 contracts
  7. 7Chesterfield Borough Council2 contracts
  8. 8University of the West of England Higher Education Corporation2 contracts
  9. 9West Northamptonshire Council2 contracts
  10. 10Scottish Prison Service2 contracts

Top cloud backup contractors by contracts won

The 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1Softcat31 contracts
  2. 2Phoenix Software20 contracts
  3. 3Insight10 contracts
  4. 4Boxxe7 contracts
  5. 5AvePoint UK Limited6 contracts
  6. 6CDW5 contracts
  7. 7Specialist Computer Centres (SCC)4 contracts
  8. 8Coolspirit Limited4 contracts
  9. 9Computacenter3 contracts
  10. 10Trustmarque3 contracts

Latest and largest awards

Each links to the official notice.

Latest

Largest

Contracts awarded by quarter

37Q4 2025*40Q1 202642Q2 202626Q3 20261Q4 2026*
* part quarter

Where the contracts were awarded

England 124 · Scotland 13 · Wales 8 · Northern Ireland 1

North West14South East11Yorkshire and The Humber10West Midlands10London10South West10Scotland10North East8East Midlands8Wales8East of England7Northern Ireland1UK-wide or not stated39

What is included

Software, appliances and managed services that back up the buyer's data and systems (on-premise servers, Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Salesforce) and restore them after loss, plus disaster recovery and business continuity provision.

  • Backup software licences and maintenance (Veeam, Arcserve)
  • Managed backup and recovery services
  • SaaS backup for Microsoft 365, SharePoint and Salesforce
  • Backup appliances and backup storage capacity
  • Legacy backup retention
  • Disaster recovery and business continuity planning
  • Hardware disaster recovery standby
  • Recovery of data from failed storage

What is not included

  • Storage arrays, object storage, tape libraries and their hardware support -> it.hw.servers-and-storage
  • Records repositories and physical records storage -> it.ent.records-scanning-storage
  • Recovery from cyber incidents -> it.cyber.security-consultancy-assurance
  • Data centre rackspace -> it.infra.data-centre-colocation

Often bought by the same buyers