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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

ICS on behalf of DSIT and DESNZ

Cloud Hosting GDS June 2025

IT ServicesCPV 72000000
Value£18.1m
Awarded22 May 2025
Published27 May 2025
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£18.1mtotal contract value
median £120k
this tender£0£19.6m

This is a large award for IT Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 36,449 valued IT Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

***THIS IS AN AWARD NOTICE, NOT A CALL FOR COMPETITION*** The shared services business unit 'Integrated Corporate Services' has a requirement for the supply of cloud hosting for the Department for Science Innovation and Technology as a result of the 13 May 2025 Transfer of Functions (Digital Government) Order 2025 onboarding the Government Digital Service (GDS), Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO), and the Incubator for Artificial Intelligence (i.AI) from Cabinet Office.

This Call-Off contract has been sourced via G-Cloud 14 framework (RM1557.14) Contract value is converted into GBP from USD: 24,044,488 USD calculated as 18,118,068 GBP using the HMRC exchange rate at contract award - May 2025 being 1.3271.

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2 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

Crown Commercial Service frameworkFrameworks & routes to market
This Call-Off contract has been sourced via G-Cloud 14 framework (RM1557.14)
G-Cloud / Digital MarketplaceFrameworks & routes to market
This Call-Off contract has been sourced via G-Cloud 14 framework (RM1557.14)

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OCID
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Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
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