Applying to G-Cloud 6
The Digital Marketplace helps public sector buyers find and compare cloud services that suppliers have submitted through the G-Cloud framework.
Buying G-Cloud services from Digital Marketplace
As part of transforming the way the public sector buys digital and tech services, we are developing a clearer, simpler and faster tool to help support this process.
How to find the services that meet your requirements
The buying process on Digital Marketplace is in many ways identical to CloudStore. It starts with preparing your requirements and understanding what are your must haves. This will help you to define the keywords to start searching with.
Being found; Selling your service to government
One of the biggest challenges we have encountered while building the Digital Marketplace is this: no matter how much we improve the search technology, some service descriptions make it very hard for buyers to understand what a service does and …
Sprint highlights: 30 July - 12 August
We’ve started publishing sprint highlights as a way to keep you up to date on what we’ve delivered in the last two weeks. The highlights comes from our team Show and Tell and are just a part of many updates, …
Searching or requirement filtering
Exploring search for the Digital Marketplace from Digital Marketplace Our interaction designer Rebecca Cottrell talked about designing search for the Digital Marketplace, in a 5-minute talk at an all-staff event in June. Here are a few main points Rebecca talked …
Searching by Browsing
Katie and I have been testing prototypes for the build of Digital Marketplace for a few months now and over this time we’ve become used to seeing the majority of people using “Search” to explore the catalogue. But in our …
CloudStore Search
As part of helping buyers find relevant services on CloudStore here are a few tips that will help specify the service you are looking for. CloudStore focuses search on a range of filters, but if you know the keywords you …
Alpha update
Claire Mitchell updates us about the Digital Marketplace alpha.
CloudStore update
G-Cloud 5 is now live with 1132 suppliers. This brings the total number of suppliers on CloudStore to 1518 and over 17,000 services. 88% of these are SMEs. A list of all the suppliers on the framework is available G-Cloud …