Switchshop delivers networking, cyber security and infrastructure for central government departments, arm's length bodies, devolved administrations, councils, emergency services and DCMS-sponsored bodies including national libraries, museums and galleries. UK-based, in-house engineering, aligned to the Government Cyber Security Strategy.
Meeting the Government Cyber Security Strategy and NCSC CAF
Layered security designed against the NCSC Cyber Assessment Framework, Cyber Essentials Plus and Government Functional Standards, with clear evidence and reporting for assurance teams.
Legacy estates blocking digital transformation
Pragmatic modernisation of LAN, WAN, datacentre and identity, with phased migrations that protect live services while moving departments to cloud-ready, secure-by-design platforms.
Connecting distributed sites, hubs and frontline teams
Resilient LAN, WAN, SD-WAN and datacentre networking for departments, agencies, councils and arm's length bodies.
Security architectures aligned to NCSC CAF, Cyber Essentials Plus and the Government Cyber Security Strategy, with firewalling, EDR, segmentation and 24/7 monitoring.
Switchshop is a UK-based IT infrastructure and cyber security integrator with over 25 years of experience working exclusively with public sector organisations, from central government departments and devolved administrations to district councils, unitary authorities and arm’s length bodies.
We are headquartered in St Albans, Hertfordshire, with our Centre for Technical Excellence in Kimpton, and an additional office in Glasgow. Our 100% in-house UK engineering team of more than 60 specialists, including a dedicated structured cabling team, delivers and supports complex government infrastructure programmes nationwide, with 24/7/365 UK-based support.
We hold Crown Commercial Service framework positions including RM6116 Network Services 3, and are an approved NHS SBS DWS supplier for wider public sector buyers. Our core technology partnerships are with HPE Aruba Networking and Fortinet. Switchshop holds Fortinet’s Engage Technical Support Partner (ETSP) and Engage Preferred Services Partner (EPSP) accreditations, the highest technical tiers amongst Fortinet’s support programmes, and is the only UK partner authorised to deliver Fortinet services at vendor level. Every Fortinet engagement we undertake is fully assured, fully aligned and fully supported. In recognition of our delivery of CAF-aligned security projects across UK central and local government, we were named Fortinet Public Sector Partner of the Year, an award given to just one partner annually from across Fortinet’s entire UK network.
Government IT is not a market we entered recently. It is where we have built our reputation, on secure-by-design network refresh, NCSC CAF-aligned cyber security, structured cabling, datacentre modernisation, identity-led zero trust and managed services, delivered to the standards and timescales that public sector programmes demand.
With central government departments, devolved administrations and councils all under sustained pressure to find efficiencies, IT directors, estates leaders and finance teams are being asked to release space, reduce energy use and evidence value across the public estate. Our occupancy and IoT analytics tooling turns your existing HPE Aruba Networking wireless access points into live occupancy sensors, no extra hardware required, showing the offices, meeting rooms, hot-desks and civic spaces that were booked but barely used, so you stop heating, cleaning, leasing and timetabling against capacity you do not actually need. Real insight for the Government Property Agency, One Public Estate and council-level rationalisation programmes, before harder cuts have to be made.
Continuous occupancy data drawn from your existing wireless access points and overlaid on your room-booking system, exposing offices, meeting rooms, hot-desks and civic chambers that are reserved but barely used. No new sensors to install. Release space, hand back leases and defer expensive new builds.
Approved across G-Cloud and Technology Products & Associated Services, giving central and local government a fully compliant direct-award route.
Approved NHS SBS supplier for IT infrastructure, networking, security and managed services, supporting cross-government and health-adjacent buyers.
Trusted Jisc supplier, giving public bodies, research councils and government-funded academic partners a compliant route to networking and infrastructure.
Replaced ageing core, distribution and wireless across a central government estate with a resilient HPE Aruba fabric, delivered out of hours with zero impact to citizen-facing services.
SD-WAN, secure connectivity and high-density Wi-Fi engineered for HQs, regional hubs, contact centres, depots and frontline locations, with consistent policy and visibility everywhere.
Protecting citizen data and meeting UK GDPR obligations
Identity-led access, segmentation, immutable backup and ransomware-resilient storage, mapped to UK GDPR, the Data Protection Act and departmental information governance.
Compliant procurement under Procurement Act 2023
Approved supplier across the frameworks central and local government actually use, with commercial models that simplify direct award and accelerate time to deploy.
Always-on services with zero tolerance for outage
Highly available designs with resilient power, dual-path connectivity, tested failover and 24/7 UK-based support, so citizen-facing and frontline services keep running.
Cloud-ready infrastructure and connectivity for OFFICIAL workloads, supporting Cloud First strategies, hyperscaler adoption and hybrid datacentre models.
Single sign-on, MFA, conditional access and zero-trust segmentation for civil servants, contractors and partner organisations.
High-density Wi-Fi 6E/7 for HQs, regional hubs and contact centres, with secure guest, BYOD and contractor access.
Refresh and consolidation of departmental and council datacentres with modern compute, storage and software-defined platforms.
Immutable backups, off-site replication and tested recovery for citizen records, case management and operational systems.
24/7 UK-based security operations, vulnerability management and reporting that maps cleanly to CAF and departmental assurance frameworks.
Connectivity, Wi-Fi and security for libraries, town halls, customer service centres and community hubs across local authority estates.
IoT, sensors and analytics that give estates and facilities teams real-time visibility across government and council buildings.
APC by Schneider Electric UPS, PDUs and power management designed, deployed and maintained to keep government comms rooms and edge sites online through outages.
Compliant routes via CCS and other public sector frameworks, with bid, design and commercial support for direct-award and competed engagements.
Continuous monitoring of energy use, HVAC performance and carbon impact across departmental offices, council buildings and operational sites, supporting Greening Government Commitments, council net-zero pledges and the wider public sector decarbonisation programme.
Unified dashboards for IT, property, finance and senior leadership showing building performance, asset health and utilisation across the departmental or council estate in one place, ready to evidence GPA, OPE and Treasury business cases.
Designed and deployed a Fortinet-led security fabric across a unitary council, aligning firewalling, segmentation and monitoring to the NCSC Cyber Assessment Framework.
Consolidated three legacy datacentres into a modern hybrid platform with Lenovo compute and immutable backup, cutting cost and shrinking the attack surface.
Switchshop exhibits, sponsors and speaks at the leading uk government industry events across the UK. Come and meet the team, or catch up on where we have been.
Join Switchshop at ICT for Education Brighton at the Amex Stadium to discover smarter, safer and more scalable IT solutions for education.
Switchshop is proud to be exhibiting at Jisc Networkshop 2026 – the UK’s leading event for education and research networking. Join us in Nottingham to explore how we’re helping organisations across education and the public sector design, secure and optimise networks that are ready for the future—while solving today’s challenges.
