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.
Pop-up research for the Digital Marketplace
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 …
May update
The way that the public sector buys things has to change to be agile. We can no longer take months going through the old procurement cycles. Instead of negotiating lengthy contracts for items such as computer storage, servers and software, …
The importance of prototyping concepts
User testing the alpha Last week, the alpha of the Digital Marketplace was released internally to GDS. In the last round of lab research, we could now observe people using the real Digital Marketplace for the first time. Search needs …
Building an agile Digital Marketplace
Chris Porter is Technical Architect and Senior Developer on the Digital Marketplace. Providing a technology product that can be changed quickly is a key goal for the Digital Marketplace development team. The agile approach, which is core to the work …
Be part of the solution
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 …
G-Cloud 5 update
G-Cloud 5 Go Live We've had an exceptional high number of applications to G-Cloud 5, as such the Intention of Award letters will now be 9 May and the go live date is 22 May 2014. G-Cloud iii extended In …
Releasing the Digital Marketplace alpha
We’re making real progress
Design principles and the Digital Marketplace
At the Government Digital Service, we’ve developed a set of ten design principles which apply to all the work we do here. They inform not only how an individual service ‘looks and feels’, but also the fundamental product design and …
G-Cloud Pan Government Accreditation update
Due to high demand from G-Cloud 3 and G-Cloud 4, the G-Cloud team was facing a backlog of Pan Government Accreditation applications and accreditation queries.
Buyers and suppliers in the user research lab
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 …