The Digital Marketplace blog is now closed
The Digital Marketplace blog is now closed
News and information will be published on the central GDS blog in future so we will no longer be updating this channel.
September Update
G-Cloud has had a great number of successes recently, which shows how it is transforming the way the public sector buys commodity IT services. These include: total sales so far reaching over a quarter of a billion pounds a total …
Moving from CloudStore: Buyer and supplier update
At the end of the month, Digital Marketplace will be the place to buy G-Cloud services. This means that we will be switching off CloudStore. Why we are building Digital Marketplace As part of transforming the way the public sector …
Tell us your views: the G-Cloud security approach
We want to share the new security approach process and draft questions that suppliers will need to answer prior to submissions for G-Cloud 6 opening.
Keeping the conversation going
One of the most common questions we’re asked when we’re doing user research for the Digital Marketplace is “When is this going live?”
Sprint highlights: 13 - 25 August
Opening up Digital Marketplace for buyers We have two more data migration stories remaining until we can officially open Digital Marketplace for business. As soon as these have passed Quality Assurance we will be giving Digital Marketplace a green light.
Being found; Selling your service to government
One of the biggest challenges we have encountered while building the Digital Marketplace is this: no matter how much we improve the search technology, some service descriptions make it very hard for buyers to understand what a service does and …
Moving from CloudStore to Digital Marketplace
As you hopefully now know, Digital Marketplace will replace CloudStore and be the new home for G-Cloud services.
Digital Services framework extended to 31 March 2015
The first iteration of the Digital Services framework (DSf) has been extended until 31 March 2015 so that it can continue to be available to customers until the second iteration is live. We’re aiming to have the second iteration live …
Sprint highlights: 30 July - 12 August
We’ve started publishing sprint highlights as a way to keep you up to date on what we’ve delivered in the last two weeks. The highlights comes from our team Show and Tell and are just a part of many updates, …
Searching or requirement filtering
Exploring search for the Digital Marketplace from Digital Marketplace Our interaction designer Rebecca Cottrell talked about designing search for the Digital Marketplace, in a 5-minute talk at an all-staff event in June. Here are a few main points Rebecca talked …