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.
Another milestone for G-Cloud: Over £50million in sales reached
We’re really pleased to say that the CloudStore sales figures have gone over the £50m mark this month – in fact it’s £53.5m! Another bit of news that the % of spend on SMEs is on the rise again, up …
G-Cloud, what's next? It's all about users.
We haven't had chance to blog recently, as we've been busy making sure things went smoothly for the G-Cloud 4 framework. But we want to start giving you more regular updates on the progress we're making since G-Cloud came over …
One week to go - a few extra tips on submitting for G-Cloud 4
Following on from our previous Tips'n Tricks blog we wanted to share a few extra that you might find useful prior to the tender submission deadline (next Monday 23 September). If you've already submitted and you want to change something, …
Submitting for G-Cloud 4? Don't leave it to the last minute.
With only a few days to go (11 days and counting!) before the tender submission deadline for G-Cloud 4 at 15.00 on 23 September 2013, we wanted to give you a gentle nudge to get your submissions in sooner rather …
G-Cloud 4 – clarification period closes 4 September (today) at 3pm
If you have any further questions on the G-Cloud 4 procurement, then you must submit these by logging in to your eSourcing suite account and creating a message under the message tab. The deadline for these is today – 4 …
Tell us your views on open standards for describing and sharing information
The Cabinet Office is seeking your comments on a metadata and vocabularies proposal on the Standards Hub until 5 September 2013. In 2012, the Government agreed to implement a set of open standards for government IT to make it more …
G-Cloud 4 Now Open
Today we can confirm the launch and timetable of the next procurement round for applications to join G-Cloud, which is called G-Cloud 4 (G4). The OJEU notice can be found here. What’s new in G-Cloud 4? Building on the feedback …
G-Cloud: ready for the next phase
G-Cloud moved across to GDS at the beginning of June. This ground-breaking way for the public sector to buy IT services as commodities was set up by Chris Chant, and then later implemented more fully by Denise McDonagh and her team. Since taking …