Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many and what proportion of his Department’s cloud-hosting contracts have been awarded to (a) hyperscale cloud providers and (b) UK SMEs; and what the value of those contracts was in each of the last three years.
In answer to part (a), Cabinet Office does not hold the requested information.
In answer to part (b) UK SMEs have been awarded the following cloud hosting contracts by value over the last 3 calendar years (2015 to 2017 inclusive):
Cabinet Office cloud-hosting buying with UK SMEs only
(based on data that has been matched with Crown Commercial Service spend data)
Hosting only |
|
|
| Rounded | Actual |
2015 |
| £1,702,671 |
2016 |
| £3,703,496 |
2017 |
| £4,326,741 |
Total cloud hosting | £9.7M | £9,732,908 |
|
|
|
2015 |
| £496,667 |
2016 |
| £1,853,388 |
2017 |
| £1,420,935 |
SME cloud hosting | £3.8M | £3,770,990 |
|
|
|
2015 |
| 29.2% |
2016 |
| 50.0% |
2017 |
| 32.8% |
% SME | 39% | 38.7% |