Iomart and Viglen team up for G-cloud win

Duo get their hands on a £100,000 deal to supply cloud services for the Government Digital Service

Cloud provider Iomart has won a £100,000 contract through G-Cloud to provide the Government Digital Service (GDS) with a range of cloud services.

The deal, which was won in partnership with reseller Viglen, will see the GDS supplied with virtual machines, EMC storage and backup and VMware tech, which Iomart claims will ensure the GDS has secure and well-managed technology. The technology will contribute towards the government's GOV.UK services portal which went live a year ago and gets on average about nine million weekly visits.

The six-figure contract is one of the larger deals awarded on the G-Cloud framework – deals usually amount to between £5,000 and £20,000, with deals above £100,000 proving rare. In the most recently available figures from November, just over 100 of the near-4,000 transactions were for more than £100,000. The smallest deal was for 5p.

5p – the smallest G-Cloud deal (November 2013)

113 – the number of G-Cloud deals for more than £100,000 (November 2013)

68 – the number of G-Cloud deals for less than £20 (November 2013)

£16,640.59 – the average deal size on G-Cloud (November 2013)

G-Cloud was set up to make it easier for smaller IT companies to do business with the government as well as those which have not previously worked with it before. Iomart's chief executive Angus MacSween said his company's win is proof the objectives are being met.

"This is our first major contract win under the G-Cloud framework and... it shows that G-Cloud is opening up the opportunity for a wider group of cloud services providers to successfully compete for government contracts," he added.