Secure web gateway contracts
UK public sector · 52 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
- 52
- Last 12 months
- Median contract
- £102k
- Recorded value
- Recorded value
- £68.0m
- 44 of 46 main-service contracts have a published value
- Buyers
- 45
- Suppliers
- 25
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See which ones
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What stands out
- The five suppliers that won the most secure web gateway contracts took 44% of them (23 of 52).
- The median contract, £102k, is close to the median across it & software contracts (£110k).
- Durham County Council awarded 8% of the secure web gateway contracts (4 of 52).
Who buys secure web gateway
By contracts awarded, the 12 months to 6 October 2026.
- 1Durham County Council4 contracts£444k
- 2NHS England2 contracts£56.6m
- 3H M REVENUE & CUSTOMS2 contracts£2.6m
- 4West Sussex County Council2 contracts£361k
- 5Academy Transformation Trust2 contracts—
- 6UK Health Security Agency1 contract£1.3m
- 7Student Loans Company1 contract£973k
- 8The Highland Council1 contract£749k
- 9Information Commissioner's Office1 contract£747k
- 10Westminster City Council1 contract£640k
Top secure web gateway contractors by contracts won
The 12 months to 6 October 2026.
- 1Softcat11 contracts£3.6m
- 2Boxxe3 contracts£1.2m
- 3Phoenix Software3 contracts£644k
- 4Trustmarque3 contracts£637k
- 5Everything ICT3 contracts£240k
- 6XMA Limited2 contracts£2.1m
- 7Switchshop LTD2 contracts£279k
- 8Specialist Computer Centres (SCC)2 contracts£246k
- 9BT2 contracts£67k
- 10IBM1 contract£56.0m
Latest and largest awards
Each links to the official notice.
Latest
Maintained Schools Web Filtering Solution via the NHSSBS DWS2 (official notice, opens in a new tab)
£232k
Durham County Council to Switchshop LTD · Awarded 29 September 2026
South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service to Integrity360 · Awarded 8 September 2026
London Borough of Southwark to Insight · Awarded 1 September 2026
Coventry City Council to Softcat · Awarded 31 August 2026
H M REVENUE & CUSTOMS to XMA Limited · Awarded 21 August 2026
Askham Bryan College to Softcat · Awarded 11 August 2026
Pembrokeshire County Council to PSBA · Awarded 11 August 2026
TOGETHER LEARNING TRUST to Everything ICT · Awarded 1 August 2026
Tamworth Borough Council to Softcat · Awarded 31 July 2026
Largest
NHS England to IBM · Awarded 13 March 2026
UK Health Security Agency to Softcat · Awarded 25 March 2026
Student Loans Company to IOMART MANAGED SERVICES LIMITED · Awarded 16 July 2026
H M REVENUE & CUSTOMS to Boxxe · Awarded 26 November 2025
Contracts awarded by quarter
Where the contracts were awarded
England 42 · Scotland 8 · Wales 2
What is included
Software or cloud services that inspect internet traffic and block malicious or inappropriate sites. This covers secure web gateways, DNS filtering, schools web filtering and security service edge (SSE) platforms.
- Secure web gateways (appliance, virtual or cloud)
- Web content filtering for schools
- DNS-layer security (e.g. Cisco Umbrella)
- Security service edge and cloud proxies with SSL inspection (e.g. Zscaler)
- Managed secure boundary / SSE services for a whole network community
What is not included
- Perimeter and datacentre firewalls, VPN licences -> it.cyber.firewalls-network-security
- Email filtering -> it.cyber.email-security
- Cloud account misconfiguration scanning -> it.cyber.cloud-security-posture