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.
Buying starts with requirements
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 …
Talking about the Digital Services Store
This is a guest blog post from Carrie Smith, Product Manager for the Digital Services Store I am the Product Manager for the Digital Services Store. My role here is to provide you with a store that supports the Digital …
April update
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 …
User research in the lab
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 …
Updated G-Cloud Service Accreditation scope template
Here is a new G-Cloud Service Accreditation scope template document (Version 4) for suppliers who want to apply for Pan Government Accreditation. This document has been updated to include: the new Government Security Classifications; maturity of the service; and if the …
Designing the Digital Marketplace
As we approach Alpha, we’re busily testing and improving some of the new features Stuart discussed in a previous post. I’m going to build on that to discuss some of the exciting new features and improvements we’re bringing to the …
G-Cloud 5 tips
With less than a week to go until submissions close for G-Cloud 5, we want to give you a few tips so that you feel confident about your application. You have until Thursday 10 April to finalise your submission, and …
A new space for G-Cloud and Digital Services framework
From today, this blog will be used to talk about the next phase for G-Cloud and Digital Services frameworks. We think it's very important that we have a single platform, through which we can discuss the G-Cloud framework; Digital Services …
Discover, learn, buy
When thinking about the G-Cloud & Digital Services frameworks and encouraging people to use them we have to think in terms of discover, learn, and buy. Language is going to play an important part in that. Our user research, build, …
Buying with confidence
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 …