In February we set up a multi-disciplinary team made up of people from the Government Digital Service (GDS), the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) and the Government Legal Department to work together on redesigning the Digital Services framework (DSf).
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.
We’ve talked before about the work we’re doing with the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) to improve the Digital Services framework.
It’s our aim to make the Digital Services framework fit the user need.
Before the pre-election period, we said that we’d be starting afresh with Digital Services. Tony Singleton also shared our current thinking in his June update.
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.
As I mentioned in my previous blog post, the Digital Services Store it is starting to get some of our focused attention. For those of you unfamiliar with the store and the Digital Services framework, the most notable difference for …
The @G_Cloud_UK Twitter account The G-Cloud framework was first live in February 2012. As usage of the framework increased, it made sense to set up a Twitter account with the handle @G_Cloud_UK. We used this Twitter account as a channel …
We’ve had a very busy and rewarding autumn. The team and I have been out and about talking to both buyers and suppliers about the Digital Marketplace and the G-Cloud framework. It was good to meet people face-to-face and listen …
G-Cloud has had a great number of successes recently, which shows how it is transforming the way the public sector buys commodity IT services. These include: total sales so far reaching over a quarter of a billion pounds a total …