Public sector organisations are balancing competing priorities: modernising services, improving operational efficiency, and adopting AI while protecting sensitive information, meeting regulatory obligations, and maintaining public trust.
As the Crown Commercial Service transitions from G-Cloud 14 to G-Cloud 15, AvePoint remains available to help government departments, local authorities, NHS trusts, educational institutions, and other public bodies modernise complex digital estates while maintaining security, resilience, and effective governance. These estates increasingly span cloud platforms, collaboration environments, business applications, and AI technologies, making consistent oversight difficult when teams rely on disconnected tools and processes.
Today's public sector organisations operate across increasingly complex digital estates that span cloud platforms, collaboration environments, business applications, and AI technologies. Managing governance, security, compliance, and resilience across these environments can create operational challenges when approached through disconnected tools and processes.
Through G-Cloud 15, organisations can access AvePoint's unified approach to data protection, governance, resilience, and resilience, helping them modernise with greater confidence while maintaining visibility and control across their digital estate, including the data that supports AI adoption.
How AvePoint Helps Public Sector Organisations Maximise G-Cloud 15
Here are five ways AvePoint's presence on G-Cloud 15 can help public sector organisations accelerate transformation while strengthening governance and security.
1. Simplify Modernisation Across Multi Cloud Environments
Digital transformation initiatives must often move forward alongside urgent operational priorities. Technology teams need to migrate applications, modernise infrastructure, and introduce new collaboration capabilities without weakening oversight or disrupting essential services.
Through G-Cloud 15, public sector organisations can procure AvePoint’s data protection, governance, security, and management capabilities through an established government framework. This can reduce procurement complexity and help teams address governance as an integral part of transformation.
AvePoint helps organisations apply consistent governance, protection, and management practices across their digital estate. Depending on the services deployed, teams can protect collaboration data, manage information throughout its lifecycle, strengthen administrative controls, and improve visibility into critical assets and activities.
This integrated approach helps organisations apply more consistent standards as their technology environments evolve. It also reduces the need to address governance, protection, and operational management through an expanding collection of disconnected tools.
2. Strengthen Security and Resilience from the Start
Public sector transformation cannot be separated from cyber resilience. As digital services expand across departments, suppliers, platforms, and external partners, organisations need controls that help protect critical information and support continuity when disruption occurs.
Cyber Essentials certification is now a requirement across G-Cloud 15, with the applicable certification level varying by framework lot. Cyber Essentials Plus goes further than the standard certification by independently testing whether the declared technical controls are operating effectively. AvePoint holds Cyber Essentials Plus (CE+) certification, demonstrating a level of independently assessed security assurance beyond the baseline requirement applying to many G-Cloud suppliers.
AvePoint helps organisations strengthen resilience by:
- Protecting critical cloud data with independent backup and recovery capabilities.
- Reducing information exposure by improving visibility into sensitive, overshared, or inappropriately accessed content.
- Applying governance throughout the information lifecycle to support retention, records management, and defensible disposal.
- Maintaining greater operational oversight across users, workspaces, permissions, and administrative activity.
Together, these capabilities help public sector teams reduce preventable exposure, prepare for disruption, and restore critical information when recovery is required. This approach can strengthen digital workplace resilience and support service continuity by bringing backup, security, and governance into a more connected strategy.
3. Govern AI as Part of the Wider Digital Estate
G-Cloud 15 arrives as public sector organisations explore a growing range of AI technologies and services. AI can help improve access to information, automate routine processes, and support more responsive public services. However, introducing AI into an environment with unresolved governance gaps can amplify existing problems, including excessive access, unclear ownership, inconsistent retention, and limited visibility into how data is used.
Effective AI governance starts before an organisaton deploys an AI application or agent. Teams need to understand what information AI applications and agents can access, identify who owns that information, establish appropriate policies, and maintain oversight as use cases evolve.
AvePoint helps organisations govern the wider AI estate across four connected layers:
- Data: The information AI systems retrieve, summarise, and use
- Infrastructure: The cloud services and workloads that support AI
- AI applications: The interfaces through which employees and members of the public access AI-enabled capabilities
- AI agents: Systems that interact with data, applications, and business processes
By extending existing data security, lifecycle management, and administrative controls, public sector organisations can establish a more repeatable and accountable approach to adoption. This approach can help teams pursue AI innovation while maintaining the visibility, accountability, and governance controls needed to manage risk as adoption expands.
AvePoint helps organisations discover AI agents, monitor ownership and activity, identify security and compliance risks, and improve visibility into AI-related data access. Together, this approach positions AvePoint as the unifying Trust Layer for AI, helping organisations apply a connected governance strategy across data, infrastructure, AI applications, and agents.
4. Support Compliance and Responsible Information Management
Compliance in the public sector is not a one-time exercise. Organisations must continually manage how information is created, shared, retained, accessed, and disposed of across different departments and cloud services.
AvePoint helps organisations protect and govern sensitive information while supporting requirements relating to data residency, the UK GDPR, retention, records management, and broader public sector information governance obligations. Policy-based controls, reporting, and lifecycle processes can supplement manual reviews and help teams apply governance more consistently over time.
As information moves across collaboration platforms, business applications, cloud services, and AI-enabled workflows, governance must remain consistent. An integrated approach helps organisations reduce policy gaps, improve accountability, and maintain visibility throughout the information lifecycle.
With a better understanding of what data exists, who can access it, and how it is being used, teams can support effective collaboration while managing regulatory and operational responsibilities more confidently.
5. Extend G-Cloud 15 Value Through AvePoint’s Partner Network
Public sector organisations differ in their internal resources, technical maturity, and preferred delivery models. Some procure and manage technology directly. Others work with managed service providers, systems integrators, resellers, or specialist partners to implement and operate cloud services.
AvePoint’s G-Cloud 15 availability extends across our partner network, giving organisations additional flexibility in how they access expertise, technology, and ongoing support. Partners can combine AvePoint capabilities with their own advisory, implementation, migration, and managed services to address specific organisational requirements.
This partner-led approach can help public sector teams:
Access specialist skills for complex cloud and data initiatives.
Introduce governance and security controls alongside migration or modernisation.
Establish repeatable operating models across departments or tenants.
Scale management and monitoring without placing all operational responsibility on internal teams.
Align technology adoption with longer-term service and transformation objectives.
Deliver Better Public Services with Greater Confidence
G-Cloud 15 arrives as public sectors expand their use of cloud technologies, modernise critical services, and explore the potential of AI.
Success depends on more than adopting new technology. It requires a strong foundation of governance, security, resilience, and accountability across the digital estate.
Through G-Cloud 15 and its partner ecosystem, AvePoint helps organisations take a connected approach to these priorities, enabling them to protect critical information, strengthen resilience, support compliance, and scale AI responsibly.
The result is a more secure and manageable foundation for transformation, helping public sector organisations modernise with confidence while continuing to deliver trusted services to citizens and communities.
Explore AvePoint solutions for the public sector to learn how integrated data security, governance, resilience, and AI oversight can support your organisation’s transformation goals.
Zoe Grant leads AvePoint’s UK Public Sector practice, supporting government organisations navigating digital transformation in highly regulated environments. With more than 25 years of experience across the public and private sectors, she partners closely with councils and public bodies to strengthen data management, protection, and security — while helping future‑proof their digital strategies. Driven by a strong commitment to social impact, Zoe also champions community and social mobility initiatives that equip individuals and organisations with the digital skills needed to succeed.