September Update
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...
Moving from CloudStore: Buyer and supplier update
At the end of the month, Digital Marketplace will be the place to buy G-Cloud services. This means that we will be switching off CloudStore. Why we are building Digital...
Moving from CloudStore to Digital Marketplace
As you hopefully now know, Digital Marketplace will replace CloudStore and be the new home for G-Cloud services. Digital Marketplace is reaching a stage which allows us to consider making...
July update
I am delighted to be able to tell you that the June G-Cloud sales figures have gone through the £200m barrier with a total spend to date of £217,455,674.39. 53%...
The next milestone: Digital Marketplace private beta
Today we have reached another milestone on our way to a fully functional Digital Marketplace. Supplier focused private beta The private beta allows us to start focusing on support for...
Sketching out the Strategy
As we develop the Digital Marketplace, I want to outline our current thinking for the Digital Commercial Programme Strategy.
May update
The way that the public sector buys things has to change to be agile. We can no longer take months going through the old procurement cycles. Instead of negotiating lengthy...
Taking G-Cloud forward
...as they emerge. One particular issue we are working on at the moment is security accreditation. Security accreditation is required for all services that will hold information assessed at Business...
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...