Awarded 16 September 2026
Border College Basic Cloud Hosting and Back Up IaaS Contract
Borders College · Scotland
Managed hosting tenders and contracts
UK public sector, covering 600+ buyer sites
102 contracts awarded in the 24 months to 12 October 2026
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Updated 12 October 2026 · compiled by BidSkim Limited · How we count
Managed hosting contracts ,
102 contracts across the UK, of any size
Recently awarded
The latest managed hosting contracts awarded
Awarded 11 September 2026
NECS Opensource Hosting Environment
NHS South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit
Awarded 10 September 2026
ATOS Infrastructure Platform
Medway NHS Foundation Trust · North East
Awarded 25 August 2026
International Dunhuang Programme (IDP) -Klnt
British Library
Awarded 3 August 2026
Environment, Build, Support and Administration (EBSA)
Home Office
Who wins · 24 months to October 2026
Vodafone won the most managed hosting contracts
Each dot is one contract, coloured by who bought it.
CouncilsHousing associationsNHS and healthSchools and collegesOther public bodies
| Rank | Contractor | Contracts won, by buyer | Contracts | Value won | Buyers | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vodafone London · See every contract | 5 | £24.4m | 1 | ||
| 2 | Idox South West · See every contract | 4 | £625k | 4 | ||
| 3joint | Phoenix Software Yorkshire and the Humber · See every contract | 3 | £4.7m | 3 | ||
| 3joint | ANS Group | 3 | £4.5m | 3 | ||
| 3joint | Computacenter North East · See every contract | 3 | £2.3m | 1 | ||
| 3joint | Civica London · See every contract | 3 | £729k | 3 | ||
| 3joint | ECS Partners Limited East of England · SME · See every contract | 3 | £87k | 2 | ||
| 8joint | CACI | 2 | £5m | 2 | ||
| 8joint | Amazon Web Services (AWS) East of England · See every contract | 2 | £2m | 2 | ||
| 8joint | Ember Technology South West · SME · See every contract | 2 | £278k | 1 |
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Who buys
75 buyers awarded managed hosting contracts
Contracts with a published value in the last 24 months, from the type of buyer to the size of the contract.
14 buyers bought managed hosting more than once in the last 24 months
Each dot is a buyer, by how many managed hosting contracts it awarded in the last 24 months.
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Each dot is a buyer: how many managed hosting contracts it awarded against what they were worth. The busiest and biggest are named.
CouncilsHousing associationsNHS and healthSchools and collegesOther public bodies
Top buyers by contracts awarded
| Rank | Buyer | Contracts | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Home Office | 7 | £135m |
| 2 | Ministry of Defence | 4 | £15.7m |
| 3 | Ministry of Justice | 4 | £3.8m |
| 4 | Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | 3 | £2.3m |
| 5 | Care Quality Commission | 3 | £2.3m |
| 6 | Historic England | 3 | £285k |
| 7 | UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) | 3 | £38k |
| 8 | Network Rail Infrastructure Limited | 2 | £2.6m |
| 9 | Department of Health and Social Care | 2 | £772k |
| 10 | Borders College | 2 | £497k |
Prices
Half of managed hosting contracts are worth less than £132k
Every contract with a published value, on a log scale, coloured by who bought it.
CouncilsHousing associationsNHS and healthSchools and collegesOther public bodies
The 10 biggest contracts hold 87% of the money
Coloured by who bought it.
- Home OfficeKainos · 3 Aug 2026
- Ministry of DefenceSA Group Limited · 23 Jun 2025
- Home OfficeVodafone · 1 Apr 2025
- Home OfficeVodafone · 1 Apr 2025
- Home OfficeVodafone · 30 Jan 2026
- Ministry of DefenceANS Group · 27 Mar 2026
- Liverpool City CouncilPhoenix Software · 14 Mar 2025
- Ministry of JusticeCACI · 24 Dec 2025
- Environment Agencyiomart · 21 Oct 2024
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentCACI · 8 May 2026
Where and when
London awards the most managed hosting contracts. March and April are the busiest months.
Contracts by region and by month awarded. Click a region to filter the page.
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| Region | Contracts | Value |
|---|---|---|
| London | 21 | £13.5m |
| South West | 10 | £3.1m |
| North East | 8 | £2.2m |
| Yorkshire and the Humber | 7 | £333k |
| East of England | 6 | £3m |
| South East | 6 | £1.4m |
| Scotland | 5 | £1.3m |
| North West | 4 | £17.4m |
| East Midlands | 4 | £418k |
| Wales | 3 | £1.1m |
| West Midlands | 2 | £29k |
| Northern Ireland | 1 | £813k |
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Key findings
- 87%
of the money is in the 10 biggest managed hosting contracts.
Of 94 contracts with a published value. - 41%
of managed hosting contracts are won by SMEs.
As recorded by the buyer, on 81 award notices. - 30%
of managed hosting contracts are awarded in March and April.
31 of 102 contracts.
Questions
How many managed hosting contracts does the UK public sector award?
102 in the 24 months to 12 October 2026, from 75 public buyers.
How much is a typical public sector managed hosting contract worth?
The median is £132k, and 59% are worth less than £250k.
Who wins the most public sector managed hosting contracts?
Vodafone won the most (5).
What is included
A hosting provider runs servers or a private cloud environment for a named application or system the buyer owns, with the infrastructure support to keep it available.
- Hosting of bespoke or legacy government applications
- Virtual servers on a UK hosting provider's cloud platform
- Hosting with infrastructure support, helpdesk and change for a national data platform
- Infrastructure provision for a research study network
What is not included
- Hyperscale public cloud consumption -> it.infra.public-cloud
- Rackspace where the buyer runs its own kit -> it.infra.data-centre-colocation
- Mainframe hosting -> it.infra.mainframe-services
- Website and CMS hosting -> it.dev.websites-and-cms
- Hosting bought with a named system's supply or support -> that system's service