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.
Working together to design government contracts for the digital age
Posted by:
Warren Smith and Jason Waterman, Posted on:
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Categories:
Buyers, Digital Marketplace, Open standards, Suppliers
This is a joint blog post written by Jason Waterman from the Crown Commercial Service (CCS), and Warren Smith from Government Digital Service (GDS).
Working with the Standards Hub to make public procurement and contracting data more open
Posted by:
Warren Smith, Posted on:
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Categories:
Buyers, Digital Marketplace, Open standards, Suppliers
I recently blogged about how government is supporting open data standards in public procurement and contracting and what we’re doing to move towards an open standard for public procurement and contracting data.
Starting to talk about G-Cloud 9 and security
Posted by:
Digital Marketplace team, Posted on:
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Categories:
Buyers, Digital Marketplace, G-Cloud, Security, Suppliers
We recently blogged about our plans to do a discovery for G-Cloud 9 (G9). Although this piece of work hasn’t started just yet, we’re already thinking about what we need...
How we’re iterating on Digital Outcomes and Specialists
Posted by:
Sarah Cunliffe, Posted on:
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Categories:
Buyers, Digital Marketplace, Digital Outcomes and Specialists, Suppliers, User research
Since the ‘earliest usable product’ of the Digital Outcomes and Specialists buying journey went live at the end of April, over 110 opportunities for work in the public sector have...
How the Serious Fraud Office used the Digital Marketplace
Posted by:
Digital Marketplace team, Posted on:
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Categories:
Crown Hosting, Digital Marketplace, Success story
The Digital Marketplace made the buying process simpler, clearer and faster for the Serious Fraud Office (SFO). Ben Denison explains how. Describe your role I’m the Chief Technology Officer at...
We’ve extended the G-Cloud 8 application deadline
Posted by:
Digital Marketplace team, Posted on:
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Categories:
Digital Marketplace, G-Cloud, Suppliers
If you'd like to supply your services through the G-Cloud 8 (G8) framework on the Digital Marketplace, you now have until 5pm (BST) on 23 June to apply. During the...
An open standard for public procurement and contracting data
Last month I wrote a post about how government is supporting open data standards in public procurement and contracting.
Changing the design to help buyers understand shortlisting and evaluation criteria
Posted by:
Sarah Cunliffe, Posted on:
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Categories:
Buyers, Digital Marketplace, Digital Outcomes and Specialists
Since Digital Outcomes and Specialists services became available on 27 April, we’ve been gathering and prioritising feedback from users. We immediately prioritised 2 things users were having problems with. We...
Turning off the Digital Services Store
Posted by:
Digital Marketplace team, Posted on:
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Categories:
Buyers, Digital Marketplace, Digital Outcomes and Specialists, Digital Services Store
We'll be turning off the Digital Services Store on 5 July 2016. If you’ve already started the buying process for Digital Services 2 (DS2) services, the Crown Commercial Service (CCS)...
Becoming a platform: our progress so far
Posted by:
Kev Keenoy, Posted on:
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Categories:
Digital Marketplace, Digital Outcomes and Specialists, G-Cloud
Since first building a ‘service submission portal’ for G-Cloud 6, our aim has been to move the Digital Marketplace away from being a simple catalogue of services, to being a...