Documents issued by Whitehall’s procurement agency reveal that the current iteration of government’s core commercial vehicle for buying cloud hosting and support will remain in place for six further months
The incumbent G-Cloud 14 framework has been extended by six months to an end date of October 2026, so as to allow the Crown Commercial Service adequate time to prepare and implement its replacement.
The framework came into effect in October 2024 and, according to CCS, features more than 4,000 suppliers across its four lots, offering a cumulative total of about 46,000 discrete services.
A pipeline document issued by the procurement agency in April indicated that it expected to implement the 15th iteration of G-Cloud in March 2026 – one month before the incumbent deal reaches the end of its initial 18-month term.
In a newly published pair of commercial notices, CCS reveals that it has extended the term of G-Cloud 14 across. The extension covers both the first three lots – the long-standing trio of sections dedicated to cloud hosting, software, and support – and the fourth segment, which was added in the 13th version of the framework and addresses major or complex migration projects. Only 42 suppliers feature on this latter lot.
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The new notices indicate that the extensions are covered by provisions which allow contract modifications that are “brought about by circumstances which a diligent contracting authority could not foresee”.
The notice, published on GOV.UK’s Find a Tender service, adds: “The extension will facilitate the procurement of G-Cloud 15. Information regarding G-Cloud 15 will be provided in the near future via [this] platform and the upcoming deals page.”
The current incarnation of G-Cloud came with an estimated worth of £6.5bn for the first three lots, plus an additional £1bn for the fourth lot. This figure has not been altered as a result of the six-month extension.
The previously published pipeline notice for G-Cloud 15 indicated that the value of the new framework would decline by almost a quarter to £5.8bn in total.
G-Cloud has been a mainstay of public sector tech procurement since the first version of the framework was introduced in 2012.
