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Single sign on contracts

UK public sector · 110 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
110
Last 12 months
Median contract
£136k
Recorded value
Recorded value
£64.5m
101 of 104 main-service contracts have a published value
Buyers
81
Suppliers
53

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

What stands out

  • The five suppliers that won the most single sign on contracts took 40% of them (44 of 110).
  • Contracts awarded per quarter fell 19% from the first half of the period to the second.
  • The median contract, £136k, is 24% above the median across it & software contracts (£110k).

Who buys single sign on

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

  1. 1NHS England7 contracts
  2. 2Department for Work and Pensions4 contracts
  3. 3GENOMICS ENGLAND LIMITED4 contracts
  4. 4FRIMLEY HEALTH NHS FOUNDATION TRUST3 contracts
  5. 5United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust3 contracts
  6. 6Met Office3 contracts
  7. 7West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust3 contracts
  8. 8Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust2 contracts
  9. 9UK Industrial Fusion Energy Ltd2 contracts
  10. 10Dundee City Council2 contracts

Top single sign on contractors by contracts won

The 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1Softcat24 contracts
  2. 2Phoenix Software9 contracts
  3. 3CDW4 contracts
  4. 4Ultima Business Solutions4 contracts
  5. 5Bytes Software Services4 contracts
  6. 6Somerford Associates Limited3 contracts
  7. 7Insight3 contracts
  8. 8OneAdvanced3 contracts
  9. 9Trustmarque2 contracts
  10. 10Innovate IT Ltd2 contracts

Latest and largest awards

Each links to the official notice.

Latest

Largest

Contracts awarded by quarter

34Q4 2025*32Q1 202618Q2 202626Q3 20260Q4 2026*
* part quarter

Where the contracts were awarded

England 100 · Scotland 7 · Wales 3

London15South East15North West11Yorkshire and The Humber9South West9North East7East of England7Scotland7East Midlands6Wales2West Midlands1UK-wide or not stated21

What is included

Software and services that control who can sign in to which systems. This covers single sign-on, multi-factor, certificate and smartcard authentication, directory services and directory migrations, identity governance, privileged access management and self-service password reset.

  • Single sign-on, including clinical tap-and-go (e.g. Imprivata)
  • Identity governance and administration (e.g. SailPoint)
  • Privileged access management (e.g. Delinea)
  • Multi-factor, certificate and virtual smartcard authentication
  • Self-service password reset stations
  • National identity services for NHS staff (Care Identity Management)
  • Implementation of the Microsoft identity and security stack (Entra, Windows Hello)

What is not included

  • Identity checks on members of the public -> it.cyber.identity-verification
  • Active Directory change auditing -> it.cyber.data-security-insider-threat
  • Network access control -> it.cyber.firewalls-network-security
  • Building access control -> not IT (physical security)

Often bought by the same buyers