BEST·UK·DATA ROOMS
Ranked #2 of 15Publishes pricingCyber Essentials

Admincontrol

The only provider here publishing GBP list prices and holding Cyber Essentials Plus.

Headquarters
Oslo, Norway
Founded
2005
Segment
Nordic and UK mid-market M&A, due diligence, tender processes, boards
Hosting
Stack Infrastructure OSL 01 and 02 in Oslo, plus Microsoft Azure North Europe, West Europe, Norway East and Sweden Central
Encryption
Encryption in transit and at rest
Free trial
Not offered

The assessment

Admincontrol is a Norwegian provider of board portal and virtual data room software, founded in 2005 and headquartered in Oslo. It is now part of Euronext Corporate Solutions and operates seven offices across the Nordics, the UK and France, including London and Glasgow.

It is one of very few virtual data room vendors that publishes list pricing at all, and the only one on this table that publishes it in pounds. The Preparation Portal is £250 per month with unlimited storage for the sell side, and the live data room starts at £685 per month. The catch is in the allowance: 500MB is included and everything above it is billed at £0.90 per MB, which on a document-heavy process is where the real cost appears.

On credentials it is strong. ISO/IEC 27001:2022, SOC 2 Type II, Cyber Essentials Plus and a G-Cloud 14 listing, backed by a public sub-processor register that names the exact data centres. That register is also what reveals the gap: the storage locations are Oslo and EU Azure regions, with no UK option anywhere.

Our verdict

The clearest illustration on this table that a UK office and a UK certification are not the same thing as UK data residency. If your requirement is Cyber Essentials Plus and a G-Cloud route to market, Admincontrol is one of the very few credible answers and it will quote you in pounds. If your requirement is that the documents stay in the UK, it cannot meet it, and no amount of Glasgow office will change that. Watch the £0.90 per MB overage: on a real diligence set that number moves fast.

Ownership disclosure

Part of Euronext Corporate Solutions.

UK presence, checked

London, 16-18 Middlesex Street E1 7EX, and Glasgow, 24 St Vincent Place G1 2EU

Strengths

  • Publishes list pricing in pounds sterling, which almost nobody in this market does
  • Holds Cyber Essentials Plus and a G-Cloud 14 listing, the two things UK public sector procurement actually asks for
  • ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified by DNV and SOC 2 Type II attested by Deloitte Norway
  • Publishes an unusually detailed sub-processor and data location register, naming exact data centres
  • Genuine UK offices in London and Glasgow, not just a phone number
  • Board portal and data room from a single Euronext-backed vendor

Limitations

  • No UK data residency despite the UK offices and UK accreditations: storage is Norway and EU Azure only
  • Only 500MB included in the base data room, with overage at £0.90 per MB, so document-heavy diligence escalates quickly
  • No free trial advertised
  • No ISO 27701, the privacy information management standard
  • No explicit UK GDPR or DPA 2018 statement despite the UK market focus

Pricing, hosting and certification

Pricing

Published in pounds sterling. Preparation Portal £250 per month with unlimited storage and unlimited sell-side users. Virtual Data Room from £685 per month, including 500MB of storage, unlimited sell-side and buy-side users, Q&A, reporting and redaction. Storage above the allowance is charged at £0.90 per MB. Export service £250 for the first encrypted USB and £100 for each additional. Invoiced monthly with 30 days' notice to cancel.

✓ Published on the provider's own site

Data residency

Stack Infrastructure OSL 01 and 02 in Oslo, plus Microsoft Azure North Europe, West Europe, Norway East and Sweden Central. No UK data location is offered: the London and Glasgow offices are sales and support only.

UK EU
Certifications
  • ISO/IEC 27001:2022
  • SOC 2 Type II
  • Cyber Essentials Plus
  • G-Cloud 14

Counted only where named publicly by the provider.

Typical use cases

  • M&A and due diligence
  • Tender and procurement processes
  • Board communications
  • Fundraising
  • Real estate transactions

Sources consulted

Last reviewed 26 July 2026

What we could not confirm

Published openly, because a gap in the evidence is information too. Anything listed here could not be verified from a primary source, so we have not scored Admincontrol as though it were true.

  • Their Cyber Essentials Plus claim contradicts itself on their own G-Cloud 14 listing: the certification field is ticked yes, while the free text on the same listing says they are currently going through Cyber Essentials Plus accreditation. The governance field on that listing is also stale, referring to ISO 27001:2022 certification being completed within Q1 2018. Treat the CE Plus claim with caution and ask for the certificate
  • G-Cloud listings are hosted by government but the certification fields are supplier self-declared. The Government Digital Service does not verify them
  • Free trial: their G-Cloud listing states no free trial and none is advertised on their site
  • No explicit UK GDPR or DPA 2018 statement could be found