The UK’s Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has awarded a contract to Redesmere Ltd to assist with its cloud migration.

As revealed in a contract award notice published to Total Tenders, the government department has selected Redesmere to assist with the network engineering service as part of its Hybrid Hosting Transformation (HHT) program to exit its “on-premises” data centers.

The contract has an estimated value of between £832,433 ($1.13m) and £1.7 million ($2.3m), and will run between March 20, 2026, and 19 September, 2026.

Redesmere describes itself as a digital transformation professional services business specializing in cloud and AI.

Separately, the DWP has told DCD that it is targeting a full migration by the end of 2028. The department, it said, is currently using Crown Hosting Data Centre facilities, but does not publish detailed information on the quantity of data centers or specific colocation arrangements.

Targeting a 100 percent cloud adoption, the DWP said that it uses a mix of public cloud providers, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, and Oracle. The use of multiple providers is to “support resilience and avoid supplier lock-in.”

Crown Hosting Data Centres is a government-focused colocation service provider formed by a joint venture between Ark Data Centres and the UK’s Cabinet Office.

It currently provides colocation services for the Bank of England, the London Ambulance Service, the NHS Arden Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit, the Crown Commercial Service, the Ministry of Justice, and the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency, among other customers.

Full details about Crown Hosting’s data center locations are not available, but they are described as being available in both rural and urban areas. Ark, however, has 27 data centers across nine sites in operation or development across the UK and Belgium, totaling more than 560MW.