Axistwelve

Trusted technology partner for public sector transformation.

We design, build, host and run digital services for government, on our own ISO 27001 certified private cloud in the UK.

Independently certified
ISO 27001ISO 27017ISO 27018ISO 9001ISO 14001ISO 20000-1Cyber Essentials PlusGreen Hosting

Who we work with.

Government departments, regulators and independent bodies, councils and regional agencies, and arts and culture organisations.

Care Quality Commission
Regulator / independent body

Care Quality Commission

The public website, the inspections directory for every registered provider in England, and the provider portal, with Dynamics and Azure integrations.

Tate
Arts and culture

Tate

A unified platform across all four museums, with Solr-powered federated search and bespoke hosting infrastructure.

Civil Service Learning
Government department

Civil Service Learning

Designed, hosted and supported a digital learning platform delivering consistent training across departments.

London Borough of Bexley
Council / regional agency

London Borough of Bexley

Public website designed, built and hosted under G-Cloud, with deep Microsoft Dynamics integration powering its forms.

Cafcass
Regulator / independent body

Cafcass

The Parenting Plan tool for separated parents, with Dynamics 365 integration, plus hosting and development of cafcass.gov.uk.

West Kowloon Cultural District
Arts and culture

West Kowloon Cultural District

A multilingual, multi-site platform for Asia’s premier cultural precinct, commissioned by the Hong Kong Government.

Department of Health and Social Care
Government department

Department of Health and Social Care

A secure, accessible citizen self-service portal that guides people to the information they need and reduces pressure on front-line staff.

Invest Northern Ireland
Council / regional agency

Invest Northern Ireland

Hosting, maintenance and development across their estate, including federated Solr search with AI-driven user journeys.

Office for Nuclear Regulation
Regulator / independent body

Office for Nuclear Regulation

SIMRS, with NAC: tracking and reporting nuclear material movements in line with post-Brexit obligations.

Southbank Centre
Arts and culture

Southbank Centre

A flexible platform balancing marketing, ticketing and editorial storytelling, integrated with Tessitura.

Ministry of Justice
Government department

Ministry of Justice

A digital behaviour change programme, co-designed for Cafcass, promoting child-centred communication between separating parents.

London Borough of Lambeth
Council / regional agency

London Borough of Lambeth

The council’s Drupal 10 website, with hosting, support, a recent major upgrade and Dynamics 365 integration.

Acas
Regulator / independent body

Acas

A redesigned Employment Tribunal Conciliation Service, from discovery and user research to build and ongoing support.

Somerset House
Arts and culture

Somerset House

Website designed and built with Fabrique, hosted from UK data centres with 24/7 support.

NHS England
Government department

NHS England

The National Recipe and Menu Bank, improving nutrition planning and consistency across NHS institutions.

London Borough of Merton
Council / regional agency

London Borough of Merton

Main website and subsites migrated from SharePoint to Drupal, delivered through our CI/CD platform, Podium.

Office of Rail and Road
Regulator / independent body

Office of Rail and Road

Website and intranet migrated to Drupal, including a scripted SharePoint migration and Microsoft Dynamics and Azure AD integration.

National Poetry Library
Arts and culture

National Poetry Library

A typographically led website for the UK’s foremost public collection of modern poetry, built with Fabrique.

Department for Work & Pensions
Government department

Department for Work & Pensions

A redesigned Employment Tribunal Conciliation Service with Acas, making early conciliation easier to reach.

NI Business
Council / regional agency

NI Business

Hosting and development for Northern Ireland’s official online hub for business guidance, with federated search in progress.

National Audit Office
Regulator / independent body

National Audit Office

Secure Linux hosting and third-line consultancy, acting as a trusted extension of the in-house team.

History Today
Arts and culture

History Today

A publishing platform for a high-traffic readership, with Chargebee integration for subscriptions and renewals.

Intellectual Property Office
Government department

Intellectual Property Office

A tailored, secure CMS platform for IPO’s publishing, built to government digital service standards.

London Borough of Waltham Forest
Council / regional agency

London Borough of Waltham Forest

A staff intranet on our Drupal distribution, with event and media tools and drag-and-drop layouts.

National Heritage Memorial Fund
Regulator / independent body

National Heritage Memorial Fund

Website designed, built, hosted and supported, including legacy content migration and a restructured architecture.

Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
Government department

Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

A digital overhaul of the Employment Tribunal group claims service with Acas, implementing workplace dispute reforms.

West Yorkshire Police
Council / regional agency

West Yorkshire Police

Website and sub-sites with secure form processing, crime tracking and officer messaging integrations.

Human Tissue Authority
Regulator / independent body

Human Tissue Authority

Hosting, support and continuous improvement for the public website, with SLA-based incident management.

Northern Irish Connections
Council / regional agency

Northern Irish Connections

Hosting, development and support through Podium, with federated search across the Invest NI estate.

Historic England
Regulator / independent body

Historic England

Technical architecture consultancy, research, prototyping and user testing to shape a service redesign.

Heritage Lottery Fund
Regulator / independent body

Heritage Lottery Fund

Redeveloped and redesigned website, with secure hosting, support and iterative enhancement.

Student Loans Company
Regulator / independent body

Student Loans Company

PDF remediation at scale, improving accessibility and compliance for critical content.

Care Quality Commission
Regulator / independent body

Care Quality Commission

The public website, the inspections directory for every registered provider in England, and the provider portal, with Dynamics and Azure integrations.

Tate
Arts and culture

Tate

A unified platform across all four museums, with Solr-powered federated search and bespoke hosting infrastructure.

Civil Service Learning
Government department

Civil Service Learning

Designed, hosted and supported a digital learning platform delivering consistent training across departments.

London Borough of Bexley
Council / regional agency

London Borough of Bexley

Public website designed, built and hosted under G-Cloud, with deep Microsoft Dynamics integration powering its forms.

Cafcass
Regulator / independent body

Cafcass

The Parenting Plan tool for separated parents, with Dynamics 365 integration, plus hosting and development of cafcass.gov.uk.

West Kowloon Cultural District
Arts and culture

West Kowloon Cultural District

A multilingual, multi-site platform for Asia’s premier cultural precinct, commissioned by the Hong Kong Government.

Department of Health and Social Care
Government department

Department of Health and Social Care

A secure, accessible citizen self-service portal that guides people to the information they need and reduces pressure on front-line staff.

Invest Northern Ireland
Council / regional agency

Invest Northern Ireland

Hosting, maintenance and development across their estate, including federated Solr search with AI-driven user journeys.

Office for Nuclear Regulation
Regulator / independent body

Office for Nuclear Regulation

SIMRS, with NAC: tracking and reporting nuclear material movements in line with post-Brexit obligations.

Southbank Centre
Arts and culture

Southbank Centre

A flexible platform balancing marketing, ticketing and editorial storytelling, integrated with Tessitura.

Ministry of Justice
Government department

Ministry of Justice

A digital behaviour change programme, co-designed for Cafcass, promoting child-centred communication between separating parents.

London Borough of Lambeth
Council / regional agency

London Borough of Lambeth

The council’s Drupal 10 website, with hosting, support, a recent major upgrade and Dynamics 365 integration.

Acas
Regulator / independent body

Acas

A redesigned Employment Tribunal Conciliation Service, from discovery and user research to build and ongoing support.

Somerset House
Arts and culture

Somerset House

Website designed and built with Fabrique, hosted from UK data centres with 24/7 support.

NHS England
Government department

NHS England

The National Recipe and Menu Bank, improving nutrition planning and consistency across NHS institutions.

London Borough of Merton
Council / regional agency

London Borough of Merton

Main website and subsites migrated from SharePoint to Drupal, delivered through our CI/CD platform, Podium.

Office of Rail and Road
Regulator / independent body

Office of Rail and Road

Website and intranet migrated to Drupal, including a scripted SharePoint migration and Microsoft Dynamics and Azure AD integration.

National Poetry Library
Arts and culture

National Poetry Library

A typographically led website for the UK’s foremost public collection of modern poetry, built with Fabrique.

Department for Work & Pensions
Government department

Department for Work & Pensions

A redesigned Employment Tribunal Conciliation Service with Acas, making early conciliation easier to reach.

NI Business
Council / regional agency

NI Business

Hosting and development for Northern Ireland’s official online hub for business guidance, with federated search in progress.

National Audit Office
Regulator / independent body

National Audit Office

Secure Linux hosting and third-line consultancy, acting as a trusted extension of the in-house team.

History Today
Arts and culture

History Today

A publishing platform for a high-traffic readership, with Chargebee integration for subscriptions and renewals.

Intellectual Property Office
Government department

Intellectual Property Office

A tailored, secure CMS platform for IPO’s publishing, built to government digital service standards.

London Borough of Waltham Forest
Council / regional agency

London Borough of Waltham Forest

A staff intranet on our Drupal distribution, with event and media tools and drag-and-drop layouts.

National Heritage Memorial Fund
Regulator / independent body

National Heritage Memorial Fund

Website designed, built, hosted and supported, including legacy content migration and a restructured architecture.

Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
Government department

Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

A digital overhaul of the Employment Tribunal group claims service with Acas, implementing workplace dispute reforms.

West Yorkshire Police
Council / regional agency

West Yorkshire Police

Website and sub-sites with secure form processing, crime tracking and officer messaging integrations.

Human Tissue Authority
Regulator / independent body

Human Tissue Authority

Hosting, support and continuous improvement for the public website, with SLA-based incident management.

Northern Irish Connections
Council / regional agency

Northern Irish Connections

Hosting, development and support through Podium, with federated search across the Invest NI estate.

Historic England
Regulator / independent body

Historic England

Technical architecture consultancy, research, prototyping and user testing to shape a service redesign.

Heritage Lottery Fund
Regulator / independent body

Heritage Lottery Fund

Redeveloped and redesigned website, with secure hosting, support and iterative enhancement.

Student Loans Company
Regulator / independent body

Student Loans Company

PDF remediation at scale, improving accessibility and compliance for critical content.

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What we do

Digital services for government, built and run in the UK.

From the first user research session to the server it runs on, one team looks after your service.

Our secure hosting solutions are ISO27001, ISO27017, ISO27018, ISO9001 and Cyber Essentials certified, delivered from two of the UK’s most secure datacentres. We focus on robust, scalable, and reliable systems, managed by SC cleared experts dedicated to maintaining the highest security standards.

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We manage the entire GDS service lifecycle, from Discovery to Live, with a proven track record of successfully guiding services through GDS assessments. Our focus is on creating safe, secure, and accessible services that effectively meet user needs.

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We design end-to-end technical solutions leveraging open source and the latest technology. Our expert team manages projects from initial concept to deployment, ensuring robust, highly secure, and scalable systems that meet client requirements and industry standards, delivering innovative and reliable solutions tailored to your needs.

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We craft immersive digital experiences through innovative design and cutting-edge technology. Our creative team collaborates to bring your vision to life, delivering engaging websites, apps, and campaigns that captivate audiences, enhance user experiences, and drive meaningful interactions with your brand.

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Case studies

Our work.

All case studies
Care Quality Commission
Digital firstCare Quality CommissionMoving the regulator from paper to digital: 70%+ of forms online and a 40% lower rejection rate in year one.
Acas
GOV.UK serviceAcasSimplifying the online form that comes before every employment tribunal claim, through a GDS-assessed service.
Cafcass
With the Ministry of JusticeCafcassPlanning Together for Children: e-learning and tools that help separating parents put their children first.
London Borough of Bexley
Council websiteLondon Borough of BexleyA council website rebuilt around residents, tested with them and integrated with Microsoft Dynamics.

Frameworks

Buy from us through the frameworks you already use.

We’re on six Crown Commercial Service frameworks and the Home Office’s ACE, so your commercial team can engage us without a new tender.

G-Cloud 15Digital Outcomes 7Technology Services 4Cloud Compute 2TePas 2Spark DPSACE
More about our frameworks

Why Axistwelve.

  • ✓A permanent team of developers who have been working with Drupal since Drupal 5
  • ✓Dedicated teams for Support, Testing, DevOps, Design and Project Management
  • ✓ISO27001 certified with the British Standards Institute since 2013
  • ✓Highly secure hosting service operated from our two UK based datacentres, also certified to ISO27001 standards
  • ✓G-Cloud and 'Digital Outcomes & Specialists' listed development services
  • ✓SaaS offerings such as 'Search as a Service', a Local Council opensource distro and a company intranet
  • ✓Specialists in Search, Editorial experience, and workflow
  • ✓Headless/decoupled Drupal solutions

Our approach

How we do it.

Technology partners
Drupal Association
Drupal AssociationAssociate member
Acquia
AcquiaPartner since 2010
Microsoft
MicrosoftPartner since 2014
Microsoft Dynamics 365
Microsoft Dynamics 365CRM integration
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft AzureCloud hosting and integration
Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web ServicesCloud hosting
Cloudflare
CloudflareTechnology we use
Fastly
FastlyTechnology we use
Certifications
ISO 27001ISO 27017ISO 27018ISO 9001ISO 14001ISO 20000-1Cyber Essentials PlusGreen Hosting

ISO 27001 certified by BSI since 2013. BSI is accredited by UKAS. About our certifications

01

Open-Source Technology

In the majority of our projects we use open source technology (our favourite is Drupal). Our developers are very active in the Drupal Community. We are also an associate member of the Drupal Organisation.

Our team has built many popular modules for Drupal. From an advanced search using the latest Solr technology to a hosted Intranet solution.

Open source offers an affordable and flexible solution for many of our clients. With benefits in security, quality, customisation, interoperability and freedom from vendor lock in. This makes it the perfect solution for the enterprise level businesses we work with.

02

Acquia Partnership

We have been working with Acquia since 2010, and collaborated with them for clients such as the US State Department. We support and fund all of our developers, support staff and project management team in their Acquia certifications.

03

Microsoft Partnership

We are proud to have been a Microsoft Partner since 2014. Integrating with many Microsoft Office 365 applications (SharePoint, Azure, OneDrive, Teams, One Note). We were also invited by Microsoft to be one of the first to integrate with One Note for schools.

04

Project Management

Our project management method of choice is Agile (Scrum). Working in sprints gives us the flexibility to react to any changes. Whilst keeping progress open and transparent for our clients.

We also have experience of working within a more structured Waterfall government structure. We can “wrap” agile sprints within this style of project management if required, an approach that has worked well with many of our clients in the public sector.

Secure hosting

We run what we build, in our own UK estate.

Private cloud in two ex-military nuclear bunkers, rebuilt for power, cooling and fire suppression, and managed by SC cleared engineers. One supplier for the application, the hosting and the security controls.

About secure hosting
Axistwelve UK estate
Your applicationDesigned and built by us
Your contentStored in the UK
Search and AIRun on our own stack
Security controlsWAF, IDS/IPS, DDoS
Monitoring24/7 support
AuditIndependently certified

Kent and Newbury. Nothing leaves the boundary unless you choose it.

Products

Our products.

All products

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Podium.

Ultra-secure PaaS hosting with ultimate control over data and performance

A purpose-built PaaS for government departments and larger companies, deployed into MS Azure, the Podium private cloud or your own. Podium handles deployment pipelines so developers can focus on business value, with no vendor lock-in.

New · Axistwelve RAG

The answer is on your site. Your search box is burying it.

Axistwelve RAG is governed semantic search. It reads the whole question and answers it in plain English, with the published document behind every claim shown underneath. It draws only on content you have approved.

Insights.

All insights

Accessibility statements: what the regulations require

What a public sector accessibility statement must contain, how GDS checks it against WCAG 2.2 AA, how often to review it and what to ask your supplier.Read more

Cyber Assessment Framework for councils and public bodies

The Cyber Assessment Framework 4.0 sets 41 outcomes. How GovAssure and the council CAF use it, and what evidence to ask your website and hosting supplier for.Read more

Drupal 10 end of life: what to do before 9 December 2026

Drupal 10 end of life is 9 December 2026, when security fixes stop. Which Drupal 11 version to target, what LocalGov sites need and what to ask your supplier.Read more

Drupal hosting for the public sector: what to ask a host

What a public body should require of Drupal hosting: supported PHP and database versions, security patching, data location, backups and a clean exit.Read more

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