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.
Digital Outcomes and Specialists: how we’re improving the shortlisting process
In the second part of our blog series on ‘Making Digital Outcomes and Specialists better for you’, we said that we’d talk more about how we’re improving the shortlisting process...
6 month extension for G-Cloud 7
The G-Cloud 7 (G7) framework will be available on the Digital Marketplace until 22 May 2017. We’ve extended G7 for 6 months so that users can continue to buy and...
G-Cloud 8: proposed contract variation
Today we are emailing G-Cloud 8 (G8) suppliers to ask them to agree to a proposed ‘contract variation’. What suppliers need to know In the answers provided to suppliers while G8 was open for applications, the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) …
Adding filtering to the opportunities page
Posted by:
Ralph Hawkins, Posted on:
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Categories:
Buyers, Digital Marketplace, Suppliers, User research
With over 170 opportunities now published on the Digital Marketplace, suppliers have told us it’s hard to find the opportunities they’re interested in. To make this easier, we tested adding...
Digital specialists requirements can now be open for 1 or 2 weeks
Posted by:
Ralph Hawkins, Posted on:
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Categories:
Digital Marketplace, Digital Outcomes and Specialists, User research
When Digital Outcomes and Specialists went live, suppliers had 2 weeks to apply to each opportunity. However, buyers have told us the buying process is taking too long and that...
G-Cloud 8 supplier statistics
G8 has attracted a higher number of new suppliers than any previous iteration of the G-Cloud framework. G-Cloud 8 (G8) services went live on the Digital Marketplace on 1 August....
Making Digital Outcomes and Specialists better for you (Part 2)
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Caroline Mulligan and Sarah Cunliffe, Posted on:
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Categories:
Digital Marketplace, Digital Outcomes and Specialists, User research
User feedback is an essential part of our work to improve Digital Marketplace for both buyers and suppliers. In our last post, we spoke about some of the things we’ve...
Making Digital Outcomes and Specialists better for you (Part 1)
Posted by:
Sarah Cunliffe and Caroline Mulligan, Posted on:
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Categories:
Buyers, Digital Marketplace, Digital Outcomes and Specialists, Suppliers, User research
We've been continuously improving the Digital Outcomes and Specialists framework since it arrived on the Digital Marketplace in April. Our development team works in 2 week 'sprints'. These are set...
Why we’re changing the way we process framework agreements
Posted by:
Cath Rooney, Posted on:
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Categories:
Digital Marketplace, Digital Outcomes and Specialists, G-Cloud, Suppliers
Suppliers who applied to supply their services through G-Cloud 8 (G8) will find out the result of their application by the end of the day today. Successful suppliers will find...
Signing your G-Cloud 8 framework agreement
Posted by:
Digital Marketplace team, Posted on:
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Categories:
Digital Marketplace, G-Cloud, Suppliers
If you’ve applied to supply your services through the G-Cloud 8 framework, you’ll find out the result of your application by the end of the day on Monday 18 July....