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 reaching over a quarter of a billion pounds a total …
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 Marketplace As part of transforming the way the public sector …
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.
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.
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 suppliers. In order to run an effective alpha we imported …
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 contracts for items such as computer storage, servers and software, …
Taking G-Cloud forward
Last December, Stephen Allott, the Crown Service Representative for SMEs blogged about G-Cloud and the opportunities opening up in government IT for small, innovative suppliers. He laid out a five-point plan to help G-Cloud grow as fast as possible. On …
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 then later implemented more fully by Denise McDonagh and her team. Since taking …