About Us

KPSN is a single ICT infrastructure for Kent Connects’ alliance of Kent and Medway authorities, Kent Police and Kent Fire & Rescue. Serving 1,100 sites and 250,000 users, KPSN has increased ICT capacity, resilience and security to deliver faster, more accessible, and better public services to residents.  Overcoming technological barriers to collaboration, KPSN has already saved £9m with plenty more to follow.  

Key to KPSN’s success is its governance through a partnership structure.  All 16 partners have, in KPSN, standardised and joined up their ICT provision.  This opens the door to integration and shared services all being progressed. Shared building control, revenues & benefits services, a virtual call centre and the Medway/Kent regional data centre are just four examples.   

KPSN’s framework and extensive catalogue encompasses all future ICT procurement.  This joined-up approach maximises buying power to achieve value for money.  Expressions of interest from authorities elsewhere in the country recognise the benefits of KPSN and the network will also expand to local community organisations and to commercial telecoms providers willing to tackle Kent’s digital divide. 

KPSN was the first partnership in the country to achieve an aggregated solution to the Government Connect Secure eXtranet (GCSx), saving money and time in meeting exacting compliance standards.  Standardisation across the partnership has brought other competitive advantages, not least a Kent and Medway-wide ICT career structure and a more flexible ICT workforce.

Combine all these and the environmental benefits of a single network, and Kent Connects and KPSN have proved a winning combination.

Current Partners

Ashford Borough Council, Canterbury City Council, Dover District Council, Kent County Council, Kent Connects, Kent's LA and independent schools, KentMAN, Maidstone Borough Council, Swale Borough Council, Thanet District Council, Tonbridge & Malling Borough Councils are all now using KPSN to provide all their network services, with new partners coming on board over the coming months.

If you would would like to be part of KPSN, please contact Jeff Wallbank, KPSN Partnership Development Manager on Enquire.KPSN@kent.gov.uk

Our annual report

We have an annual report on KPSN, available as a PDF, which gives details of our progress, partners and future plans. Click here for a copy.