G-Cloud 14 closes today, and £1bn of its contracts end between 2027 and 2029

Quick answer: G-Cloud 14 closes to new call-offs today, 28 October 2026. Stotles has tracked 3,011 contracts worth £1.64bn awarded under it, and 1,727 of them, worth £1.02bn, end between 2027 and 2029. From tomorrow, buyers who re-buy these services through G-Cloud will do so on G-Cloud 15, where an award without competition goes to the lowest-priced supplier that meets the requirement.

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What senior teams need to know

• The renewal wave peaks in 2028: £440m ends that year, and £345m ends in the next 12 months
• Central government holds most of the value: it placed 44% of call-offs but 69% of contract value
• Most call-offs are small: the median is £135k, while 53 call-offs of £5m or more carry 39% of the value
• April is the busiest month: buyers awarded 224 call-offs in April 2025 and 226 in April 2026
• G-Cloud 15 is starting slowly: at least nine call-offs so far, against 135 G-Cloud 14 notices published in October

How much G-Cloud 14 business comes back to market, and when?

£1.02bn of G-Cloud 14 call-offs end between 2027 and 2029, with 2028 the peak year at £440m. Another £41m ends by the end of December, so the first re-buys on G-Cloud 15 could land this winter.

Stotles platform data · 3,011 G-Cloud 14 call-offs awarded October 2024 to October 2026, by published contract end date, as of 27 October 2026

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The wave comes around quickly because G-Cloud call-offs are short. The median G-Cloud 14 call-off runs for 24 months, and just over a third run for a year or less, so much of what buyers signed in 2025 and 2026 comes back within two years. The true figure is higher again, because 478 call-offs worth £251m publish no end date at all.

Older frameworks show how long the money keeps flowing. The Government Commercial Agency (GCA) dashboard records £6.72bn of lifetime invoiced spend under G-Cloud 12 and £4.90bn under G-Cloud 13, against £1.67bn so far under G-Cloud 14.

Which G-Cloud 14 contracts end before the end of 2027?

718 G-Cloud 14 call-offs worth £402m end between now and December 2027, and central government holds £321m of that. HM Revenue and Customs has the most at stake, with 14 call-offs worth £52m ending, followed by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (£35m) and the UK Health Security Agency (£26m).

These are the ten largest, ranked by value:

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Some published end dates leave out optional extensions, so a few of these will run longer. Each one is still a decision point where the buyer chooses to extend, re-buy or replace, and the conversation that shapes that choice starts months before the end date.

What changes when G-Cloud 14 contracts are re-bought on G-Cloud 15?

G-Cloud 15 suppliers were assessed on quality, technical capability, and price, and buyers can award each lot with or without competition. The GCA's launch announcement confirms G-Cloud 15 is the first G-Cloud agreement run under the Procurement Act 2023, and that it folds G-Cloud 14, its Lot 4 and Cloud Compute 2 into one open framework worth around £14bn over four years. The G-Cloud 15 award notice lists social value, quality and price evaluations among the changes.

The award rules are set in Framework Schedule 7 (Call-Off Award Procedure). In an award without competition, the buyer filters the catalogue against its requirements and must then award to the lowest price, which carries a 100% weighting, with no negotiation. In a competitive selection, the buyer weights quality (including social value) and price at between 10% and 90% each. The GCA buyer guide says an award without competition is usually best for urgent or low-value buys, and competition for high-value ones, but it sets no value threshold, so the buyer decides.

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The award-without-competition rule matters most for the renewal wave. In an award without competition, price carries 100% of the weighting once a supplier meets the requirement. GCA steers buyers to that route for urgent or low-value buys, and 82% of G-Cloud 14 call-offs were under £500k. High-value renewals are more likely to go to a competitive selection, where buyers weight quality and price at between 10% and 90% each.

Longer call-offs also change the maths. A contract re-bought for four or five years before extensions locks in the winner for well beyond the 24-month median for G-Cloud 14 call-offs, and the University of Glasgow's £2.6m managed detection and response call-off, one of the first on G-Cloud 15, already runs for up to five years.

Who buys and who wins through G-Cloud 14?

Central government placed 44% of G-Cloud 14 call-offs but 69% of the contract value, while councils placed 30% of call-offs for 15% of the value. The typical central government call-off is worth £164k, against £107k for a council.

Stotles platform data · 3,011 G-Cloud 14 call-offs as of 27 October 2026, buyer sectors grouped by Stotles from buyer names

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The value sits in a small number of big contracts. The 53 call-offs worth £5m or more carry 39% of all G-Cloud 14 contract value, while the 82% of call-offs under £500k carry 21%. Across 565 buyers and 1,237 suppliers, the median call-off is £135k.

Contract value and invoiced spend give two different leaderboards, first for buyers and then for suppliers:

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Contract value reflects what buyers committed to, and a single large award can move it. The Scottish Government's £65m AWS cloud platform call-off makes up most of AWS's total, and Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council's £46m waste management software call-off puts Whitespace second. Invoiced spend shows where money has actually gone so far, and on that measure a reseller, Softcat, leads. The GCA data also shows small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) received 50.1% of G-Cloud 14 invoiced spend, while around 90% of G-Cloud 15 suppliers are SMEs, according to the GCA's August 2026 launch announcement.

When do buyers use G-Cloud?

April is the busiest month for G-Cloud 14 awards, with 224 call-offs in April 2025 and 226 in April 2026. March follows in both years, so the financial-year turn is the peak for G-Cloud buying.

Stotles platform data · G-Cloud 14 call-offs by award date, October 2024 to 27 October 2026

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If that pattern holds, March and April 2027 will be the first big months for G-Cloud 15 awards, and the renewal conversations that feed them need to start this winter.

G-Cloud 14 still did most of the work in its final month. Buyers published 135 G-Cloud 14 call-off notices in October, while G-Cloud 15 saw 8, with the first and only other call-off published in September. The first G-Cloud 15 awards include the Scottish Government's £2.3m Gartner research call-off and East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust's £768k clinical coding software call-off, both awarded in September. NHS Devon Integrated Care Board noted in its award notice that it bought under G-Cloud 14, adding that Find a Tender will only show G-Cloud 15 for selection.

These are the G-Cloud 15 call-offs Stotles has found so far, ranked by value:

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East Sussex Healthcare's call-off already runs for about four and a half years, longer than any G-Cloud 14 call-off could last. NHS South Yorkshire ICB bought its tele-dermatology service through G-Cloud 15 after the incumbent gave notice to end its contract, which is the kind of urgent buy the GCA guide steers to an award without competition. Some notices that mention G-Cloud 15 will be late G-Cloud 14 call-offs, as NHS Devon's shows, so check the notice text before you count one.

Council papers show why buyers held on to G-Cloud 14 until the end. Uttlesford District Council made an urgent decision on a Totalmobile repairs system to keep its G-Cloud 14 pricing, and explained why:

The same paper put the expiry at the end of September, so at least one council was working to a deadline a month earlier than the real one. Basildon Borough Council approved a three-year direct award for the Plentific property platform through G-Cloud, and Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council awarded its Caspar financial management system after a G-Cloud 14 catalogue search returned one suitable supplier.

What can suppliers do?

1. If you won a deal through G-Cloud, list your call-offs by end date and open the renewal conversation at least six months before each one ends
2. Track competitors' call-offs ending in 2027 and 2028 in your category, because every re-buy runs under new rules and the incumbent has to win it again
3. Benchmark your G-Cloud 15 catalogue prices against the suppliers you meet most often in your lot. You can cut prices on the Digital Platform during the term, but Lot 2a and 2b prices cannot rise
4. Plan for March and April 2027, when the first big wave of G-Cloud 15 awards is likely to land
5. If you missed G-Cloud 15, plan your application for the first reopening, around February 2028

Want this list for your own lot? Our Framework Playbook does steps 1 and 2 for you, with the expiring call-offs, competitor contracts and target buyers in your category ranked by when to act. If you missed G-Cloud 15, the Access Pack covers step 5.

G-Cloud 14 and 15: common questions

When does G-Cloud 14 end?‍

G-Cloud 14 expires today, 28 October 2026, which is the last day to sign a call-off under it. Call-offs already signed keep running to their own end dates.

Can I still buy through G-Cloud 14?‍

Today only. A G-Cloud 14 call-off must be signed by 28 October 2026, and from tomorrow new purchases go through G-Cloud 15.

How much G-Cloud 14 business comes up for renewal?‍

Stotles data shows 1,727 G-Cloud 14 call-offs worth £1.02bn end between 2027 and 2029. Of those, 632 worth £345m end in the next 12 months.

Has anyone bought through G-Cloud 15 yet?‍

Yes. Stotles has found at least nine award notices worth £6.3m that reference G-Cloud 15, the earliest awarded in September 2026, against 135 G-Cloud 14 call-off notices published in October alone.

When can new suppliers join G-Cloud 15?‍

G-Cloud 15 reopens 18 months and 36 months after its 6 August 2026 start, so around February 2028 and August 2029. Between those points the supplier list is fixed.

How long can a G-Cloud 15 call-off last?‍

Up to eight years for hosting (Lots 1a and 1b: five years plus up to three years of extensions) and up to six years for software and support (four years plus up to two), according to the GCA buyer guide. G-Cloud 14 call-offs ran for up to 36 months with one 12-month extension.

Why do G-Cloud contract values and spend figures differ?‍

Contract value is what a buyer commits to when it awards a call-off, as published in award notices. Invoiced spend is what has actually been paid, as recorded in government spend data, so the two measure different things and will not match.

Get a G-Cloud playbook for your own lot

The figures above cover the whole framework, and our Framework Playbook does the same work for your category, with named buyers and dates. The Stotles research team builds each pack from call-off notices, contract awards and buyer documents, in two versions depending on where you stand on G-Cloud.

Growth Pack, for suppliers on G-Cloud 15. We map the G-Cloud 14 call-offs in your category that end in the next 18 months, who holds them and which have lapsed with no successor. You see the competitors winning in your lot, the buyers already using G-Cloud for what you sell, and those who haven't yet, plus decisions recorded in council and board papers before a notice is published. We rank your top 10 target buyers by when to act and save them in Stotles with alerts, so you hear as soon as one of them moves.

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Access Pack, for suppliers who missed this G-Cloud 15 opening. G-Cloud 15 reopens to new suppliers around February 2028. The Access Pack shows what G-Cloud 14 bought in your category, which lot carries that demand and who won it, so you can judge whether the application is worth your effort. It also checks your pricing model and accreditations against the G-Cloud 15 award rules, where the lowest price wins an award without competition, and sets out when to start preparing.

Sources and methodology

• Contract data: Stotles platform data as of 27 October 2026. Stotles linked 3,079 notices to G-Cloud 14 as call-offs, and we analysed 3,075 of them (four older notices linked during the refresh were not retrieved). We kept award notices for contracts awarded from October 2024, which removed 29 tender, pre-tender or older notices, and removed 35 contracts published on more than one portal, leaving 3,011 call-offs. Values are total contract values as published at award; 63 call-offs publish no value, and 478 publish no end date
• G-Cloud 15 call-offs: Stotles award notices published since 6 August 2026 that name G-Cloud 15 or RM1557.15 in their text. One NHS Devon notice that names G-Cloud 15 but was awarded under G-Cloud 14 is excluded
• Buyer sectors: grouped by Stotles from buyer names into central government, local government, healthcare, blue light, universities and colleges, and housing and other (school bodies sit in housing and other)
• Spend: Government Commercial Agency G-Cloud dashboard, last refreshed 12 October 2026. This is invoiced spend from government records (the dashboard's "evidenced spend"). All figures cover G-Cloud 14 only, apart from the framework split, which covers every iteration. Contract value and invoiced spend are different measures and will not reconcile
• G-Cloud 15 suppliers: G-Cloud 15 award notice. The 16 Lot 1b suppliers are withheld and not counted
• G-Cloud 14 expiry and G-Cloud 15 SME share: GOV.UK: G-Cloud relaunches with biggest upgrade in its history and the G-Cloud 14 Lots 1-3 extension notice
• G-Cloud 15 changes: GCA: RM1557.15 G-Cloud 15 agreement page, Datagraphic: the G-Cloud 15 framework, what has changed, Public Sector Executive and Open Access Government: how the changes benefit public sector buyers
• G-Cloud 15 award rules: Framework Schedule 7 (Call-Off Award Procedure), RM1557.15, GCA G-Cloud 15 buyer guide v1.3 and GCA award without competition guidance v1.2
• G-Cloud 14 rules: CCS G-Cloud 14 supplier guidance (RM1557.14)
• Council papers: Uttlesford District Council, Basildon Borough Council, Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council