Cloud Tenders and Contracts

A cloud tender covers a migration project moving a system from on-premise infrastructure to the cloud, a cloud infrastructure build, or a cloud transition training and change programme that goes with it.

Stotles brings together cloud tenders and contracts from 100+ portals into one search, so you do not have to check each portal separately, and you can set alerts for new opportunities across the UK and Ireland.

If you want to search the government portals directly, Find a Tender carries higher-value contracts across the UK and Contracts Finder carries lower-value contracts in England. Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales and eTendersNI cover Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, Ireland's eTenders covers Irish public bodies, and many councils, NHS bodies and housing associations publish on their own e-tendering portals such as ProContract. Most cloud migration and consultancy is called off from G-Cloud and technology frameworks, so many opportunities reach only suppliers already listed.

Cloud tenders are scored on technical approach, migration risk and continuity, security, partner accreditation and price. Many buyers call off from G-Cloud, so a clear service listing and relevant public sector case studies help.

Cloud services for public bodies must comply with UK data protection law, and government buyers often ask for Cyber Essentials Plus and alignment with NCSC cloud security principles. Tenders usually set minimum insurance cover, check financial standing and ask for evidence of similar contracts at selection stage. Under the Procurement Act 2023, suppliers can be excluded for certain criminal convictions, insolvency or failure to pay tax.

Many are. G-Cloud is the most common route, and several of the larger notices are call-offs against it rather than open competitions. A full transition programme covering a legacy estate is more likely to go out as a standalone tender given the scale of the work involved.

Cloud migration is the one-off project of moving a system to the cloud: the planning, data transfer and cutover. Cloud hosting is what happens afterwards, an ongoing service running the system day to day.

NHS trusts and health boards are frequent buyers, often moving a specific system such as a security or case management platform off an end-of-life on-premise deployment. Councils and central government departments run larger, multi-year cloud transition programmes covering a wider legacy estate.

Read digital and technology strategies, licence and contract renewal dates, architecture reviews and early market engagement notices, which show cloud work coming due ahead of a notice. On Stotles you can track those signals and the buyers behind them, then follow a notice from pre-tender through to award.