If you run digital or technology for a UK council, an NHS trust, a university, or any other public body, you already know the problem. Buying the work usually takes longer than doing it.
A CMS specialist for the website. A CRM partner for the contact centre. A separate supplier for anything involving AI. Another one again once accessibility becomes non-negotiable. Four or five procurements, four or five contracts, and a project that has not started.
G-Cloud 15 exists to shorten that, and Axelerant is now an approved supplier on it, with 21 services listed through 2030.
What Changes For A Public Sector Buyer
Without G-Cloud: a council or NHS trust wanting a rebuilt website, a CRM integration and an accessibility audit runs three separate procurements, three full tender processes if the value crosses the public contract threshold, three rounds of supplier due diligence, and waits months before any of the three contracts is signed, let alone before work starts.
With G-Cloud 15: the same three pieces of work can be procured from one already-vetted supplier through a single framework call-off. No open tender. The commercial, technical and security assessment already happened at framework level, once, rather than being repeated per project. Three procurement cycles become one call-off agreement.
That is the actual change. Not new capability, faster access to capability that already existed.
What Is On The Listing
Twenty-one services, all buyable directly by eligible UK public sector organizations without a full tender:
- Drupal Staff Augmentation
- Drupal Development
- Drupal Continuous Development and Maintenance
- Headless Drupal
- Drupal Migration
- Drupal Consulting and Strategy
- Acquia DXP Consulting and Implementation
- Acquia Cloud Platform and DevOps Enablement
- Acquia Campaign Studio Consulting and Implementation
- Salesforce Consulting, Implementation and Support Services
- HubSpot Multi-Hub Implementation and Support
- Mautic Marketing Automation Implementation and Support
- Data Engineering and AI Enablement Services
- Digital Asset Management (DAM) Consulting and Support
- AWS Cloud Engineering and Managed Services
- Quality Engineering and Test Automation Services
- User Experience and UI Design Services
- Web Accessibility Compliance Consulting (Monsido)
- SEO and Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) Advisory
- Digital Marketing and Growth Enablement Services
- LocalGov Discovery, Design, Development, Maintenance and Support
None of that is a wishlist assembled for a framework application. It is the same range we bring to every engagement, because the site itself, the data behind it, the systems that reach people, and the infrastructure holding it up were never separate problems to begin with. Splitting them across four vendors does not make the work simpler. It moves the complexity into the handoffs between them. That logic is set out in full in our four-layer approach, and the platforms behind these services are listed on our platforms page.
Why One Team, Not A List Of Vendors
Most suppliers on frameworks like this compete to be the cheapest, fastest line item for one task, then hand you off to whoever is next.
That is not the relationship we are trying to build.
We would rather understand what a council, trust or university is actually trying to achieve, for residents, for patients, for students, and help sequence the work toward that, than take a fixed scope and execute it in isolation. One accountable senior team sits across all of it, on every engagement, not just this listing, so the answer to who owns this is never a handoff.
That is the difference between a vendor and a partner. A vendor delivers what was asked for. A partner says when what was asked for is not quite the right thing yet, and stays in the room long enough to see whether the work moved the number that mattered.
It is also how we build: human-led, with AI underneath, not the other way round. Intelligence that delivers means the judgment stays with people.
The Track Record Behind The Listing
We have been building on Drupal since 2008, are a Drupal Certified Diamond Partner with 200+ enterprise deliveries, have worked on Acquia for 5+ years, and are an AWS Select Tier Partner and HubSpot Gold Solutions Partner, each status earned in production. We are ISO 27001:2023 certified.
We are not new to UK public sector work either.
We rebuilt the University of East London's platform on Drupal and Acquia. UEL reports that within two years it drove a 73% increase in student applications and a 32% increase in enrolments. On the outputs we own, the estate saw a 46% reduction in user exits through better-targeted content, and now runs at 99.9% uptime with 90% WCAG 2.1 AA compliance on the measured estate.
Alongside that, we have delivered for international institutions including the United Nations and Stanford.
Where To Start If A Call-Off Is On The Table
Most public sector conversations we have start in one of four places, and each has a write-up behind it:
- The estate is too large to govern. Read choosing a CMS for a university estate and the website consolidation de-risking strategy.
- The plan exists but the layers underneath it do not. Read higher education digital strategy: the three layers most plans leave out.
- Accessibility has become a compliance exposure. Read WCAG 2.2 for university websites and accessibility statements that stopped being true.
- Assistants and answer engines are now the front door. Read our audit of 64 UK institutions, the UK higher education AI discoverability report, and see how your own site reads to AI crawlers with our free check.
For the sector view of how we work with universities and public bodies, see our higher education page.
What This Does Not Do
It does not skip governance. Your organization still runs its own compliant procurement process. G-Cloud removes the open tender for most of what is on this listing. And if a project needs something outside these 21 services, that is a separate conversation, not an assumption we can cover it.
Founded in 2005, remote-first since 2012, 150+ people, and 21 years of signed work, still built around senior people who stay on an engagement rather than rotate off it once it is sold. That is the team behind this listing.
Have a specific public sector problem in mind? [Get in touch](/contact), and we will tell you honestly whether G-Cloud is the right route for it.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does G-Cloud 15 remove the need for a procurement process entirely?
No. Your organization still runs its own compliant buying process. G-Cloud removes the open tender requirement for most services on this listing, it does not remove governance.
Is Axelerant a Drupal-only supplier on this framework?
No. The 21 listed services run across all four layers we work in, from Drupal and Acquia on the experience side through to AWS and answer engine optimization on the optimization side, not a single-platform offering.
Has Axelerant worked with UK public sector or higher education organizations before?
Yes. Recent public work includes the University of East London, alongside international institutions including the United Nations and Stanford.
How long is Axelerant listed on G-Cloud 15?
The listing covers 21 services through 2030, so a call-off can be planned across multiple budget cycles rather than one tender window.
What is not covered by this listing?
If a project needs something outside these 21 services, that is a separate conversation, not an assumption we can cover it.
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