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Servers and storage contracts

UK public sector · 309 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
309
Last 12 months
Median contract
£115k
Recorded value
Recorded value
£124m
292 of 305 main-service contracts have a published value
Buyers
160
Suppliers
97

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

What stands out

  • The five suppliers that won the most servers and storage contracts took 38% of them (117 of 309).
  • Contracts awarded per quarter fell 44% from the first half of the period to the second.
  • The median contract, £115k, is close to the median across it & software contracts (£110k).
  • South West had the most contracts: 47, or 15% of the total.

Who buys servers and storage

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

  1. 1UK Shared Business Services (UK SBS)31 contracts
  2. 2Met Office14 contracts
  3. 3UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)13 contracts
  4. 4Ministry of Defence8 contracts
  5. 5NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership6 contracts
  6. 6Home Office6 contracts
  7. 7Police and Crime Commissioner for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough6 contracts
  8. 8Police, Fire & Crime Commissioner for Staffordshire5 contracts
  9. 9UK Health Security Agency4 contracts
  10. 10The National Archives4 contracts

Top servers and storage contractors by contracts won

The 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1Dell Technologies34 contracts
  2. 2Softcat32 contracts
  3. 3CDW23 contracts
  4. 4Specialist Computer Centres (SCC)16 contracts
  5. 5Insight14 contracts
  6. 6Boxxe14 contracts
  7. 7Computacenter12 contracts
  8. 8Phoenix Software9 contracts
  9. 9XMA Limited9 contracts
  10. 10Proact IT8 contracts

Latest and largest awards

Each links to the official notice.

Latest

Largest

Contracts awarded by quarter

81Q4 2025*105Q1 202661Q2 202659Q3 20263Q4 2026*
* part quarter

Where the contracts were awarded

England 269 · Scotland 24 · Wales 16

South West47South East37London36East of England25North West23Scotland20Yorkshire and The Humber18West Midlands16North East15Wales15East Midlands11UK-wide or not stated46

What is included

Supply, expansion, maintenance and hardware support of data centre compute and storage: rack and blade servers, hyperconverged nodes, SAN, NAS and object storage, tape libraries and backup hardware, including manufacturer or third-party maintenance and break-fix contracts.

  • Rack and blade servers and chassis upgrades
  • Hyperconverged infrastructure nodes and failover clusters
  • SAN, NAS and object storage
  • Tape libraries and backup hardware
  • Manufacturer and third-party maintenance, break-fix and hardware support for data centre kit
  • Data centre compute, storage and switch fabric refreshes bought together

What is not included

  • Break/fix maintenance of a mixed estate of end-user devices, printers and servers -> it.hw.hardware-maintenance
  • HPC clusters for research computing -> it.hw.high-performance-computing
  • Backup and disaster recovery software and services -> it.infra.backup-and-disaster-recovery
  • Server operating system and hypervisor licences -> it.infra.server-os-and-virtualisation
  • Cloud hosting and IaaS -> it.infra.public-cloud
  • Rackspace in a third-party data centre -> it.infra.data-centre-colocation
  • Network switches and routers bought on their own -> it.tel.lan-and-wifi-equipment
  • Database administration -> it.data.database-software-and-support

Often bought by the same buyers