In my previous blog post about the Digital Marketplace vision, I re-introduced the 6 broad themes about how we’re helping the public sector buy what it needs to deliver great digital services, and why these are important.
Why are we doing this discovery? The Digital Marketplace has encouraged many small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to start providing cloud technology and digital services to government.
We’ve been working on a discovery for the next iteration of G-Cloud, exploring how we can make the service work better for buyers and suppliers.
During the G-Cloud 8 application and award process, the Digital Marketplace team used GOV.UK Notify to communicate with suppliers.
In March I talked about the Digital Marketplace and our vision for the future. I introduced 6 broad themes about how we’re helping the public sector buy what it needs to deliver great digital services, and why these are important.
Yesterday we launched the Supplier Standard for government to support successful delivery of digital services and technology projects across the public sector. The announcement was made by Ben Gummer, Minister for the Cabinet Office (MCO), at techUK. Programmes like ‘Government as …
In July, Jason Waterman, Deputy Director of Disputes and Policy Implementation at Crown Commercial Service (CCS), and I wrote about how Government Digital Service (GDS) and CCS are going to be working together to design government contracts for the digital …
With over 170 opportunities now published on the Digital Marketplace, suppliers have told us it’s hard to find the opportunities they’re interested in.
When Digital Outcomes and Specialists went live, suppliers had 2 weeks to apply to each opportunity. However, buyers have told us the buying process is taking too long
User feedback is an essential part of our work to improve Digital Marketplace for both buyers and suppliers. In our last post, we spoke about some of the things we’ve already done for our users to help make things better.