Amazon Web Services (AWS) spend: FOI release

Information requested

1. For each of the last five financial years provide the total value of all contracts, framework agreements, or direct expenditure with:

• Amazon UK Services Ltd
• Amazon Web Services (AWS) UK or EU entities
• Any other Amazon group companies operating in the UK.
• EBay

2. A breakdown of this expenditure by contract or project (where available), including:

• The contract title or description
•  The start and end dates
•  The total value (or estimated total value) of the contract.

Response

1. A search was carried out across the Scottish Government's Accounts Payable finance systems and the electronic Purchasing Card system (ePC). The ePC card is used to make low value ad-hoc payments when there is no formal contract in place.

For the purpose of this response, 'the last five financial years' has been interpreted as financial years starting 1st April 2020 and ending on 31st March 2025. The search focused on suppliers containing the terms “Amazon”, “eBay”, “Amazon Web Services” and “AWS” to identify any relevant purchases. The review identified spend under the ePC system which are detailed in the table below.

ePC spend

Financial Year	Amazon	eBay
April 20-March 21	£290,568.78	£3,713.99
April 21-March 22	£294,919.86	£8,572.06
April 22-March 23	£237,068.44	£3,484.12
April 23-March 24	£184,959.30	£3,818.39
April 24-March 25	£195,583.15	£1,742.80

Accounts Payable finance systems spend

Amazon Web Services

Financial Year	Total spend
April 20-March 21	£2,491,047.93
April 21-March 22	£2,582,261.88
April 22-March 23	£534,815.88
April 23-March 24	£1,698,666.07
April 24-March 25	£1,659,999.71

2. Scottish Government do not have contracts or framework agreements with eBay or Amazon but do have a contract in place with Amazon Web Services.

The information you have requested is available from the Public Contracts Scotland Contracts Register. I have provided a link to the Public Contracts Scotland website where you can access the information you have requested, free of charge, from the Contracts Register - https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Default.aspx. In addition to providing the Public Contracts Scotland website link I have attached guidance on how to access and navigate to the Contracts Register.

Under section 25(1) of FOISA, we do not have to give you information which is already reasonably accessible to you. If, however, you do not have internet access to obtain this information from the website(s) listed, then please contact me again and I will send you a paper copy.

I would also like to draw your attention to our regular published spend for transactions over £500 for electronic Purchasing Cards (ePC): Government spend over £500: monthly reports - gov.scot and also our monthly and annual reports of Scottish Government spend over £25,000 Government spend over £25,000: monthly and annual reports - gov.scot.

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FOI 202500481765 - Information released - Contract Register Guidance

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