In February we set up a multi-disciplinary team made up of people from the Government Digital Service (GDS), the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) and the Government Legal Department to work together on redesigning the Digital Services framework (DSf).
Digital Services 2 went live on 6 August 2015 and services are now available on the Digital Marketplace for public sector buyers. All central government buyers use the Managed Service option.
The Digital Services 2 framework (DS2) is now live on the Digital Marketplace with 169 suppliers, 77% of which are small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The Digital Services 1 agreement (DS1) expires on 8 August 2015.
As well as getting Digital Services 2 (DS2) ready for launch this week and making progress on the Digital Services framework redesign, we've been making some significant changes to the Digital Marketplace and G-Cloud functionality.
The Digital Marketplace made the procurement process simpler, clearer and faster for the National Audit Office. Nick Halliday explains how.
The Digital Marketplace’s main purpose is to make it simpler, clearer and faster for those in the public sector to buy what they need to transform their services.
It’s our aim to make the Digital Services framework fit the user need.
In my last blog post on redesigning Digital Services I said that we’re looking at applying user-centred design principles to the framework agreement and call-off contract.
The Digital Marketplace makes it simpler, clearer and faster for the public sector to buy what they need to build world-class services.
Before the pre-election period, we said that we’d be starting afresh with Digital Services. Tony Singleton also shared our current thinking in his June update.