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techUK Launches Survey Seeking Member’s Views on G-Cloud as Part of our Work to Support the Digital Marketplace.

As part of our ongoing work to campaign for smarter buying from government and support the development of simpler and more accessible procurement vehicles, techUK has launched a survey seeking member views on the next phase of G-Cloud and Digital Outcomes & Specialists (DOS).

techUK’s 2015 SME Survey showed G-Cloud was the clear 'star of the show’, with 80% of SMEs saying it had helped them access the market. However, SMEs also felt widespread concern that public sector commissioners are not making sufficient use of all the tools at their disposal with 86% of SMEs saying that civil servants need to make more of the Digital Marketplace.

The Digital Marketplace is transforming the way the public sector commissions digital and cloud services, by making it simpler, clearer and faster for them to buy what they need. The service allows all public sector organisations to find and buy cloud-based services, specialists who can work on digital projects and physical data centre space.

G-Cloud and DOS are part of the Digital Marketplace. The G-Cloud is the framework Government uses to purchase cloud services (e.g. web hosting or IT health checks), and DOS is a framework for the public sector to procure specialist resources to deliver agile software development. G-Cloud 8 has attracted a higher number of new suppliers than any previous iteration of the G-Cloud. The new service went live on the Digital Marketplace on 1 August and the public sector now has access to over 26,000 services and 2726 suppliers(90% of these being SMEs).

techUK has worked closely with the Government Digital Service (GDS) and the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) to increase awareness and use of G-Cloud in the tech market and amongst buyers, and to inform the development and growth of the Digital Marketplace. Our work together has included Market Briefings, G-Cloud discovery sessions and a series of regional events on the Digital Marketplace that in total brought together over 200 suppliers and 100 buyers.

Have Your Say and Take Part in Our Survey

techUK has been supporting the G-Cloud 9 Discovery by engaging with suppliers so that the next iteration is informed by user needs and provides an end-to-end journey for users. 

We will use the findings of this survey to develop a clear set of recommendations on the next phase of G-Cloud and DOS, and to inform our future engagement with Government. If you would like to complete the survey, please do so by 9 September. This survey is only open to techUK members.

Relevant Information

CCS is currently undertaking a cloud, digital, cyber and transformational enabling discovery, and will be launching a survey soon to get the views of the tech market

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