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18 records Generated from this page's data. Click a name to open its panel on the Cloud and compute page. Records resting on one source are tagged "one source".| Record | What it is | Place | Links | Confidence |
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| ANS (ANS Group)Companies | UK cloud and Microsoft services company, merged with UKFast in 2021-22, running its own UK sovereign cloud and selling Copilot and AI services.UK sovereign cloud and Microsoft AIKey facts Merger with UKFast announced 2021-10-21; combined business trades as ANS from 2022-01-27 with about 7,000 customers; Inflexion Private Equity acquired ANS in June 2021; "own fully sovereign UK based cloud"; on G-Cloud 15 and Technology Services 4 (2026); Microsoft UK Partner of the Year 2025; £3m funding for UK businesses' AI transformation projects (2026); public-sector customers include Ministry of Defence, Home Office, Met Police, NHS South CSU, GMCA; Manchester City Council AI pothole-reporting tool on ANS-hosted Azure services (2026-07) | ans.co.uk/public-sector-cloud/ · ans.co.uk/insights/uk-cloud-giant-eyes-further-g | verified | |
| AWS One Government Value Agreement (OGVA)Partnerships and contracts · also on Big tech in the UK | Three-year Crown Commercial Service memorandum giving UK public bodies AWS cloud services at a discounted rate. three-year term from January 2021 (succeeded by OGVA 2.0) | gca.gov.uk/news/crown-commercial-service-and-ama · computerweekly.com/news/366556853/Government-pre | one source | |
| AWS public cloud hosting contracts with HMRC, DWP and Home Office (2023)Partnerships and contracts | Three AWS cloud hosting contracts with three government departments, all starting the same day under the second One Government Value Agreement. active (36-month terms)public cloud hostingKey facts Home Office £450m; HMRC £350m; DWP £94m; each 36 months from 2023-12-01; awarded via G-Cloud | computerweekly.com/news/366566172/AWS-secures-89 | one source | |
| Civo–Locai Labs Project MercuryPartnerships and contracts | Civo and Locai Labs agreed to build pre-trained sovereign UK language models, from small edge models to a 256-billion-parameter model. announced (memorandum of understanding)sovereign LLM programmeKey facts Edge Intelligence models of 0.8–30bn parameters; Frontier Power models of 256bn parameters; to run on Civo's UK Sovereign Cloud or on-premise; no compute or money disclosed | civo.com/newsroom/locai-labs-and-civo-unveil-pro | one source | |
| Cloud Compute 2 (CCS framework)Schemes, programmes and AI lines | Crown Commercial Service framework for high-volume cloud hosting, successor to Cloud Compute. | computerweekly.com/feature/Levelling-the-playing | one source | |
| Crown Hosting Data CentresNetworks, bodies, events and media | Joint venture of the Cabinet Office and Ark Data Centres that hosts government servers under a single-supplier framework.government colocation joint ventureKey facts Ark holds 75%, government 25% (2015-03-19); company number 9274699 printed on site; first call-offs DWP, Highways Agency, Home Office (2015-03); second framework, £250m over seven years (2022-10); Bank of England contract about £22m over seven years (2024-05); no AI or GPU offer published | gov.uk/government/news/government-creates-new-bu · crownhostingdc.co.uk/?p=153 | verified | |
| G-Cloud 14 (RM1557.14)Schemes, programmes and AI lines | Crown Commercial Service cloud framework, 9 November 2024 to 28 April 2026; lots for cloud hosting, cloud software and cloud support; no AI-specific lot. expired | assets.crowncommercial.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads | one source | |
| HMRC–AWS server migration contract (2026)Partnerships and contracts | HMRC chose AWS, the only bidder left, for a reported £473m ten-year deal to move its servers out of three Fujitsu data centres. awarded (reported)hyperscaler migrationKey facts £473m; 10 years; servers from three Fujitsu data centres; AWS, Google, IBM, Microsoft and Oracle approached in 2025 (reported 2026-03-27) | computerweekly.com/news/366640606/Flaws-in-gover | one source | |
| HPE–Crown Commercial Service memorandum of understandingPartnerships and contracts · also on Big tech in the UK | Public-sector memorandum with Hewlett Packard Enterprise, signed 17 May 2023, covering high-performance compute for AI applications. term to 17 May 2026 | gca.gov.uk/products-and-services/technology/tech · computerweekly.com/news/366537852/HPE-and-CCS-si | one source | |
| iomart Group plcCompanies | Glasgow-based, AIM-listed cloud and hosting company with owned UK data centres, planning to launch AI services.UK cloud MSP (AIM)Key facts Revenue £77.7m for six months to 2025-09-30, up 25% (2025-10-30); 600+ staff (2025-11); about 30% of revenue from Microsoft-connected activities (2025-10-30); £115m revolving credit facility to 2027-06-30 with RBS, HSBC and Clydesdale Bank (2025); "Productisation of AI Services" listed as second-half priority (2025-11); CEO post vacant, Richard Last Executive Chair (2025-11) | Glasgow | iomart.com/media/1spcqa5x/iomart-half-yearly-res · iomart.com/investors/regulatory-announcements/ne | verified |
| Microsoft Digital Transformation Agreement 2021 (DTA21)Partnerships and contracts | Crown Commercial Service pricing agreement with Microsoft for public bodies, live from April 2021 and due to expire April 2024. due to expire | computerweekly.com/news/366556853/Government-pre | one source | |
| National Cloud Infrastructure Programme (NCIP)Schemes, programmes and AI lines · also on Chips and hardware | Multi-billion-pound government cloud procurement programme named in the UK AI Hardware Plan as a new digital procurement route. announced | gov.uk/government/publications/uk-ai-hardware-pl | one source | |
| NHS Research Secure Data Environment networkSchemes, programmes and AI lines | England-wide network of secure NHS data environments, one national and 11 regional, where approved researchers analyse NHS data.health trusted research environmentsKey facts 11 sub-national SDEs each covering about 5 million people (c.2022); over £13.5m awarded to sub-national SDEs (c.2022); part of up to £200m joint funding (NHS England, DHSC, BEIS); hosting supplier not named on pages read | england.nhs.uk/blog/investing-in-the-future-of-h · transform.england.nhs.uk/key-tools-and-info/data | one source | |
| Node4 (UK Sovereign Cloud)Companies | Managed cloud company running its own UK data centres; sells a UK-only sovereign cloud and Microsoft Copilot and AI services.UK sovereign hybrid cloudKey facts Data centres at Derby (330 racks), Leeds (450 racks) and Northampton (800 racks) (2026-10); "Trusted by 1700+ Businesses" (2026-10); Microsoft Azure Expert MSP; named sovereign cloud customers Brintons Carpets, Aprolis, Stratas (2026-10); registered in England and Wales No. 04759927; no GPU or AI hosting offer published | Derby | node4.co.uk/uk-sovereign-cloud · node4.co.uk/ | one source |
| Open Cloud CoalitionNetworks, bodies, events and media | Cloud lobbying group of ten founding members including Google Cloud, set up to support UK and European cloud competition inquiries. launched | computerweekly.com/news/366614787/Microsoft-and- | one source | |
| Oracle UK Sovereign Cloud (AI services)Chips, models and products | Oracle cloud for UK government and defence customers; generative AI services and the OCI AI Agent Platform added September 2025. | datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/oracle-adds-ai-se | one source | |
| UKCloudCompanies | Public-sector sovereign cloud provider, founded as Skyscape, sold largely via G-Cloud; it and parent Virtual Infrastructure Group were wound up 25 October 2022. collapsed (compulsory liquidation) | computerweekly.com/news/252526530/UKCloud-in-liq · computerweekly.com/feature/Interview-Ex-UKCloud- | one source | |
| UKCloud–Crown Commercial Service memorandum of understandingPartnerships and contracts | November 2021 agreement giving public bodies preferential commercial terms on UKCloud services. ended (UKCloud liquidated 2022) | computerweekly.com/news/366556853/Government-pre | one source |