As Katie discussed in her recent blog, we’ve now released the Alpha of the Digital Marketplace to users within Government Digital Service at Aviation House. The Public Sector Show at ExCel on the 13th May gave us an opportunity to …
You may already know that the Digital Marketplace is designed to be the new home for the G-Cloud and Digital Services frameworks. What you may not know is that we have assembled a multidisciplinary team here at Aviation House. The …
On Thursday 17th April, we invited three suppliers and three buyers to take part in a user research session to test the current build of the Digital Marketplace. Two out of three buyers hadn’t used the CloudStore before, relying on …
Whatever you’re buying, wherever you’re buying it, the procurement process always starts with requirements. That means identifying what the system or environment you are commissioning has to output. Typically, we talk about outcomes - what does the system have to …
G-Cloud is about more than sales; it is about transforming the way the public sector buys cloud-based services, and it is one of the frameworks supporting a wider business IT transformation. The Cloud First policy sets out that cloud solutions …
We’re now at the stage where we’re putting our prototype of the new Digital Marketplace in front of buyers. Last week we held a user research session and invited five buyers to start to play with the new design and …
This post is from our User Researcher, Katie Taylor As the user researcher for digital marketplace, I’m running research lab sessions every 2 weeks. The first session I ran was with buyers, and their responses to 4 main pages of …
About 3 weeks ago I joined the commercial services team at GDS as user researcher. I’ve already had a few discussions with buyers and suppliers and, even in the early stages, am gaining a more in depth understanding of some …
The Cabinet Office is seeking your comments on a metadata and vocabularies proposal on the Standards Hub until 5 September 2013. In 2012, the Government agreed to implement a set of open standards for government IT to make it more …