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Firewalls contracts

UK public sector · 153 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
153
Last 12 months
Median contract
£103k
Recorded value
Recorded value
£43.3m
144 of 148 main-service contracts have a published value
Buyers
113
Suppliers
55

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What stands out

  • The five suppliers that won the most firewalls contracts took 37% of them (57 of 153).
  • Contracts awarded per quarter fell 23% from the first half of the period to the second.
  • The median contract, £103k, is close to the median across it & software contracts (£110k).

Who buys firewalls

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

  1. 1UK Health Security Agency5 contracts
  2. 2BANK OF ENGLAND5 contracts
  3. 3University of the West of England Higher Education Corporation4 contracts
  4. 4UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)3 contracts
  5. 5Home Office3 contracts
  6. 6Ministry of Defence3 contracts
  7. 7London Ambulance Service NHS Trust3 contracts
  8. 8West Northamptonshire Council3 contracts
  9. 9UK Atomic Energy Authority2 contracts
  10. 10UK Shared Business Services (UK SBS)2 contracts

Top firewalls contractors by contracts won

The 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1Softcat19 contracts
  2. 2Insight12 contracts
  3. 3CDW11 contracts
  4. 4Boxxe8 contracts
  5. 5Switchshop LTD7 contracts
  6. 6Khipu Networks Limited7 contracts
  7. 7Phoenix Software6 contracts
  8. 8Specialist Computer Centres (SCC)6 contracts
  9. 9Computacenter5 contracts
  10. 10Wavenet4 contracts

Latest and largest awards

Each links to the official notice.

Latest

Largest

Contracts awarded by quarter

42Q4 2025*43Q1 202635Q2 202633Q3 20260Q4 2026*
* part quarter

Where the contracts were awarded

England 144 · Scotland 5 · Wales 4

London22South East18South West15North East14Yorkshire and The Humber14East Midlands13North West7West Midlands7Scotland5Wales4East of England3UK-wide or not stated31

What is included

Firewalls and related network security controls for the perimeter and internal network. This covers next-generation firewalls (hardware or virtual) with their subscriptions and support, intrusion prevention, network access control, web application firewalls, remote-access VPN licences and data diodes.

  • Next-generation and perimeter firewalls, hardware or virtual
  • Firewall security subscriptions, support and maintenance
  • Intrusion prevention and detection systems
  • Network access control (e.g. Cisco ISE)
  • Web application firewalls and secure reverse proxies (e.g. FortiWeb, NetScaler)
  • Remote-access VPN licences (e.g. Cisco AnyConnect)
  • Data diodes and one-way secure file transfer equipment

What is not included

  • Cloud web gateways, DNS filtering and SSE -> it.cyber.web-security-filtering
  • 24x7 monitoring by a SOC provider -> it.cyber.managed-soc-mdr
  • Switches, routers and wireless -> another family: network hardware
  • WAN circuits and encrypted network links -> another family: network and WAN services

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