Email security contracts
UK public sector · 54 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
- 54
- Last 12 months
- Median contract
- £74k
- Recorded value
- Recorded value
- £7.0m
- 49 of 49 main-service contracts have a published value
- Buyers
- 52
- Suppliers
- 23
33 email security contracts ending in the next 12 months
See which ones
BidSkim assigns contracts to services from the notice text. How services are assigned
What stands out
- The five suppliers that won the most email security contracts took 63% of them (34 of 54).
- The median contract, £74k, is 33% below the median across it & software contracts (£110k).
- Financial Conduct Authority awarded 4% of the email security contracts (2 of 54).
Who buys email security
By contracts awarded, the 12 months to 6 October 2026.
- 1Financial Conduct Authority2 contracts£479k
- 2Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency2 contracts£419k
- 3BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation)1 contract£750k
- 4Leicester City Council1 contract£548k
- 5BiP Solutions1 contract£524k
- 6Norse Group1 contract£456k
- 7Falkirk Council1 contract£438k
- 8The Pensions Regulator1 contract£411k
- 9National Audit Office1 contract£269k
- 10Sheffield City Council1 contract£269k
Top email security contractors by contracts won
The 12 months to 6 October 2026.
- 1Phoenix Software11 contracts£1.4m
- 2Softcat10 contracts£1.5m
- 3Bytes Software Services7 contracts£1.2m
- 4Boxxe3 contracts£240k
- 5CDW3 contracts£214k
- 6Computacenter2 contracts£893k
- 7Egress Software Technologies2 contracts£83k
- 8Trustmarque2 contracts—
- 9Akhter Computers Ltd1 contract£456k
- 10ITogether1 contract£269k
Latest and largest awards
Each links to the official notice.
Latest
BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) to Computacenter · Awarded 3 September 2026
Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency to Phoenix Software · Awarded 27 August 2026
Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency to Phoenix Software · Awarded 25 August 2026
West Northamptonshire Council to Softcat · Awarded 13 August 2026
Uttlesford District Council to Bytes Software Services · Awarded 30 July 2026
West Sussex County Council to Boxxe · Awarded 25 July 2026
Sefton Council to Communicate Technology Limited · Awarded 20 July 2026
Norse Group to Akhter Computers Ltd · Awarded 9 July 2026
East Suffolk Council to Advania · Awarded 1 July 2026
Largest
Leicester City Council to Bytes Software Services · Awarded 30 October 2025
BiP Solutions to Phoenix Software · Awarded 2 June 2026
Falkirk Council to Softcat · Awarded 25 November 2025
The Pensions Regulator to Bytes Software Services · Awarded 3 February 2026
Contracts awarded by quarter
Where the contracts were awarded
England 50 · Scotland 2 · Wales 2
What is included
Protection for an organisation's email, such as spam, phishing and malware filtering, email continuity, and email authentication (DMARC).
- Secure email gateways and cloud email filtering (e.g. Mimecast)
- DMARC and email authentication tools
- Email continuity and archiving sold with filtering
What is not included
- Web filtering and secure web gateways -> it.cyber.web-security-filtering
- Email hosting and Microsoft 365 licences -> another family: productivity and collaboration software
- Security awareness and phishing training -> it.cyber.security-training-exercises