Department for International Trade: Internet
(asked on 9th March 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, 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 was of those contracts in each of the last three years.
The Department for International Trade was formed in July 2016. In 2016 one contract was awarded to a UK small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) for cloud hosting. In 2017 one contract was awarded to a UK SME and one contract was awarded to a hyperscale cloud provider for cloud hosting. These proportions are shown in the table below.
The value and proportion of these contracts by value of UK SME and hyper scale provider is as follows:
Hosting only | Actual |
2016 | £50,000 |
2017 | £408,926 |
Total cloud hosting | £458,926 |
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|
2016 | £50,000 |
2017 | £8,926 |
SME cloud hosting | £58,926 |
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2016 | 100.0% |
2017 | 2.2% |
% SME | 12.8% |