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.
A new buyers guide
As part of the work we're doing to help make buying and supplying to government simpler and clearer, we've been looking at how we can make it easier to understand different processes. Our latest guidance helps to clarify the buying …
A New Year's resolution, time to look at accreditation
Welcome back after the New Year! Since the launch of G-Cloud in February 2011, accreditation has been an integral part of delivering cloud services securely to Government and the wider public sector. During that time we have reviewed the accreditation …
G-Cloud sales keep on growing
November has seen yet another new record for G-Cloud sales, with spends reaching nearly £15m. That means total sales are now £78M. It's great news for G-Cloud, and represents yet another great month for this framework and SMEs. Looking at …
Guest Post: The results are in – on a level playing field, SMEs win 56% of public sector IT business
To mark Small Business Saturday, which is designed to encourage everyone in the UK to support our small businesses, Stephen Allott, the Crown Representative for SMEs, writes about G-Cloud and the opportunities opening up in government IT for small, innovative …
A record selling month!
Last month we saw our best month ever for sales on the G-Cloud framework up to £63.5m – that's a rise of £10m on last month’s total! Breaking the figures down £63,459,873 - current total (ex VAT) reported G-Cloud sales …
G-Cloud 4 framework agreements
We wanted to let everyone know that we are processing all the returned framework agreements and sending the counter-signed copies back as we get through them. These will all be back-dated to the day that the framework went live, 29 …
CloudStore is back
CloudStore is back but with a limited search function. We are continuing to work hard to restore the full service. What does this mean for buyers? Buyers can still use the menus and links on the homepage to access more …
CloudStore update
Sorry that the CloudStore is not available right now. Current CloudStore status On Friday, we were carrying out updates to the records and the search indexes, and noticed that this had affected some of the search queries which were not …
We're Open!
G-Cloud 4 is now live and we had a record number of submissions this time round. From today there are 1183 suppliers with over 13,000 number of services available in the CloudStore up from just over 800 providing more than …
Update on CloudStore
We wanted to let you know why you can't access CloudStore at the moment. CloudStore takes the data from all the successful submissions and displays that in a way that buyers can search and filter through relevant services to help …