Mark Scrivens, FPT Software United Kingdom

FPT Corporation, the Hanoi-headquartered technology group, has been appointed as a supplier on the UK Government's G-Cloud 15 framework under Lot 3, which covers cloud support services. The listing gives more than 19,000 public sector bodies, including NHS trusts and HM Revenue and Customs, a streamlined route to buy six of the company's digital and cloud solutions.

G-Cloud 15 is the largest iteration of the framework since it was introduced in 2012. The Government Commercial Agency, formed in April from the Crown Commercial Service and several Cabinet Office commercial teams, puts its estimated value at £14bn over four years. The agency describes that figure as an estimate of value over the term. About £3bn of public sector cloud spending is expected to pass through the framework each year. G-Cloud 15 replaces G-Cloud 14 and Cloud Compute 2, and it is the first version to be run under the Procurement Act 2023. As an open framework, it is due to reopen to new suppliers after 18 and 36 months, which widens the field of companies able to compete for public work.

Lot 3 is intended for professional and managed services that help buyers move to cloud systems and keep them running. FPT's cleared offer covers the modernisation and migration of legacy IT architecture, with the aim of avoiding disruption to live services. It also includes application management across enterprise platforms such as SAP and Microsoft Dynamics, bespoke cloud software engineering, and predictive demand forecasting. In a health setting, the forecasting tools are designed to help administrators model patient loads and plan workforce allocation.

The company has said it will concentrate on the NHS. Many trusts still hold clinical and administrative data on systems that are decades old, and moving that information to modern cloud infrastructure remains one of the service's persistent operational tasks. A supplier able to carry out such migrations while hospitals continue to treat patients addresses a need that managers across the health service recognise.

FPT already has a footprint in UK healthcare through partnerships with private health technology firms. It has overhauled radiology information systems for clinical practices, adding workflow scheduling and voice-recognition reporting. That work gives the company a clinical reference point in the UK market before it begins to pursue public contracts.

The company also points to data assurance credentials relevant to health services. It holds ISO 27001 certification for information security and says it meets the HIPAA and HITRUST r2 standards, which govern the handling of health information in the United States. Buyers in the NHS are required to satisfy strict information governance obligations, and accreditation of this kind is usually among the first matters procurement teams examine.

Senior figures at FPT UK said the appointment supports the company's plans to deliver reliable enterprise systems to public bodies and to apply artificial intelligence across public services. The framework allows departments to test that proposition through individual call-off contracts without committing to long procurement exercises.

FPT Corporation operates in more than 30 countries and employs an engineering workforce of over 37,000. It reported annual revenue of $2.66bn. Its entry onto G-Cloud 15 adds a large international engineering organisation to the pool of suppliers available to NHS and Whitehall buyers, who can now draw on its services as their cloud migration programmes progress.