The Digital Services 2 framework (DS2) is now live on the Digital Marketplace with 169 suppliers, 77% of which are small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The Digital Services 1 agreement (DS1) expires on 8 August 2015.
As well as getting Digital Services 2 (DS2) ready for launch this week and making progress on the Digital Services framework redesign, we've been making some significant changes to the Digital Marketplace and G-Cloud functionality.
The Digital Marketplace made the procurement process simpler, clearer and faster for the National Audit Office. Nick Halliday explains how.
The Digital Marketplace’s main purpose is to make it simpler, clearer and faster for those in the public sector to buy what they need to transform their services.
It’s our aim to make the Digital Services framework fit the user need.
In my last blog post on redesigning Digital Services I said that we’re looking at applying user-centred design principles to the framework agreement and call-off contract.
The Digital Marketplace makes it simpler, clearer and faster for the public sector to buy what they need to build world-class services.
G-Cloud buyers are able to evaluate their short-listed service offerings in two ways
There are more than 19,000 services available via G-Cloud on the Digital Marketplace, so how would you go about filtering them down and finding what you need?
One of the aims of the Digital Marketplace, as mentioned in our March strategy, is to make technology and digital frameworks available so that the public sector has one place to go to buy what it needs to build world-class digital services.