The single supplier of the government’s data centre framework, since 2015.
Crown Hosting gives the UK public sector, and providers, secure, resilient and sovereign data centre capacity. Simple to buy, assured from the start, and priced at less than half the 2025 market price, according to the GCA.
How Crown Hosting
supports the public sector
Modernising legacy IT
Move your IT out of costly on-premises or third-party facilities. You reduce cost and operational risk without carrying the burden of running the estate yourself.
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AI-enabled government
Access AI-ready infrastructure designed to support everything from AI sandboxes and pilot deployments through to advanced compute and HPC programmes.
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Sovereign digital infrastructure
UK owned, UK operated and under UK jurisdiction. Our facilities are assured for the public sector’s most sensitive workloads.
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The policy guiding where compute should reside
“Where you have no choice but to host on-premises, use Crown Hosting…”GOV.UK, Government Cloud First policy
Cloud First requires central government to consider public cloud as the default. It also recognises that some workloads are better delivered through secure, resilient on-premises infrastructure where cloud is not yet appropriate.
Crown Hosting is a pragmatic way to comply: a secure home for what stays on-premises, while suitable applications migrate to cloud over time.
Proven savings for the public sector
The GCA puts our costs at less than half the 2025 market price. The figures below come from the framework’s own reporting and from the migrations our customers have completed.
Savings
Of the 2025 market price. The GCA’s own figure for services bought under RM6262.
Source: GCA, RM6262 Crown Hosting II agreement
Power availability, at Tier III level uptime
Delivering under the framework since
Saved across the wider government programme
Based on savings reported by customers, including DWP’s £150m a year since 2018
Carbon-free electricity on our utility supply, backed by REGO certification
Who can use Crown Hosting?
There are two routes to our services. Both use the same facilities, on the same terms.
Public sector organisations
Central government, defence, blue lights, local government, education and research all buy through the same government assured route.
- Access agreement with the Cabinet Office under GCA RM6262
- You pay us directly, with no procurement necessary
- Space live in weeks
- Pay for what you use, with contracts you can terminate at any time
Private sector businesses
Private sector businesses can buy our services for resale to the public sector as part of their own offering. The Industry Customer Pathway gives you the same space on commercial terms.
- The same facilities and the same assurance
- Commercial terms, with no public procurement process
- Deploy alongside the organisations you serve
- Support for AI and high density deployments
A simple, compliant route to buy
Crown Hosting is the single supplier of the Crown Hosting II framework, RM6262. Services and prices are already established, so most public sector customers buy by direct award without a further competition.
Memorandum of Agreement
You sign an access agreement with the Cabinet Office, which acts as the Buyer under the framework.
Call-Off Agreement
You, Crown Hosting and the Cabinet Office bring the framework terms into effect. The umbrella, not the order.
Service Request
The order for what you actually need, and the first chargeable stage. One agreement supports many requests.
Providers serving the public sector follow the equivalent Pathway route: NDA, ICP Agreement, Order Form. Both routes establish the agreement first, then order the services you need.
The sectors we serve
Each sector has a named lead who understands how your organisation buys and what it needs.
When working with Crown Hosting, it becomes your data centre, your data, your equipment, your assets, your applications and that puts us (as the customer) in a position of strength.
Saved each year, according to DWP
To pay back an investment of £108 million
Of DWP services now delivered from cloud, with the other 30% in Crown Hosting
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Our framework sites
Secure, sovereign UK campuses. Government-assured infrastructure capable of supporting everything from standard hosting requirements through to large-scale, nationally significant deployments.
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