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IT outsourcing contracts

UK public sector · 74 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
74
Last 12 months
Median contract
£920k
Recorded value
Recorded value
£518m
71 of 73 main-service contracts have a published value
Buyers
70
Suppliers
55

BidSkim assigns contracts to services from the notice text. How services are assigned

What stands out

  • The five suppliers that won the most IT outsourcing contracts took 30% of them (22 of 74).
  • Contracts awarded per quarter held steady across the period.
  • The median contract, £920k, is 8.4 times the median across it & software contracts (£110k).
  • East of England had the most contracts: 11, or 15% of the total.

Who buys IT outsourcing

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

  1. 1NHS Suffolk/Norfolk commissioning bodies3 contracts
  2. 2Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust2 contracts
  3. 3Golden Lane Housing Limited2 contracts
  4. 4Northern Ireland Electricity Networks Limited1 contract
  5. 5Scottish Water1 contract
  6. 6Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ)1 contract
  7. 7Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service1 contract
  8. 8London Borough of Barnet1 contract
  9. 9NHS Somerset Integrated Care Board1 contract
  10. 10Reading Borough Council1 contract

Top IT outsourcing contractors by contracts won

The 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1TURN IT ON LIMITED9 contracts
  2. 2OneAdvanced4 contracts
  3. 3Phoenix Software4 contracts
  4. 4Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust3 contracts
  5. 5BT2 contracts
  6. 6Version 12 contracts
  7. 7Telent2 contracts
  8. 8Computeam Ltd2 contracts
  9. 9Bridgeall2 contracts
  10. 10Accenture1 contract

Latest and largest awards

Each links to the official notice.

Latest

Largest

Contracts awarded by quarter

10Q4 2025*21Q1 202622Q2 202620Q3 20261Q4 2026*
* part quarter

Where the contracts were awarded

England 66 · Scotland 4 · Wales 3 · Northern Ireland 1

East of England11North East9London9East Midlands7South East7North West6South West6Yorkshire and The Humber3West Midlands3Scotland3Wales2Northern Ireland1UK-wide or not stated7

What is included

A single supplier runs most or all of an organisation's IT under one contract: support desk, devices, servers, networks and often hosting. Common for schools and academy trusts, housing associations and small public bodies.

  • Fully outsourced ICT managed service
  • Managed IT support for schools and academy trusts
  • Managed IT and network support
  • Managed ICT infrastructure (servers, LAN, Wi-Fi, WAN, hosting) for the whole organisation
  • IT operations and technical managed service
  • Corporate IT managed services

What is not included

  • Service desk-only contracts (see Outsourced IT service desk)
  • Device-only services (see End-user computing services)
  • Integration across several suppliers (see Service integration and management (SIAM))
  • Network-only managed services: another family: networking and telecoms
  • Application support: another family: application development and support

Often bought by the same buyers