Tony Singleton, G-cloud Programme Director at the Government Digital Service (GDS), gave this presentation at our Really Useful Day for Suppliers, 29 November 2013, in London.
The presentation was about the G-cloud and procurement.
30. Reported sales
• £10m in October
• £63.4m in total
• 56% by value and 61% by volume awarded to
SMEs
• 70% of the number of sales were through
Central Government; 30% through the rest of
the public sector
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GDS
32. Digital Service Framework
• Easy access to suppliers with the right
capabilities
• Providing a large pool of suppliers
from SMEs to the agile practices
• Providing a flexible and speedy route
to meet customers’ needs
• Dynamic - regularly refreshed
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GDS
It’s a framework that allows Government and the wider public sector to buy commodity Cloud services
from lots of different providers from the UK, the EU and across the world.
It’s about creating a vibrant, dynamic marketplace for suppliers, in particular SMEs, to offer a wide range of services in a transparent, commoditised way. It’s about making a break with the bad old days of Government outsourcing its IT strategy to big corporations that over charged, under-delivered and locked buyers into long term contracts
But there is a much bigger ambition than just being yet another method of procurement - it’s about flexibility, lower cost, improving speed of delivery
What’s our vision for G-Cloud?
The G-Cloud framework allows you to choose and purchase services
basically ...
not tech-led but user-led which leads us to a cloud-based strategy (flexibility, lower cost, speed of delivery)
Progress on ensuring 50% of central departmental new ICT spending will be transitioned to public cloud computing services by December 2015
Today
18 months approx.
18 months approx.
We want to continue to improve from what’s been built and make it even better. Over the next few months, G-Cloud is going to go through a transformation process to bring it up to date with the other transactional services that we’re working on.
We want to continue to improve from what’s been built and make it even better. Over the next few months, G-Cloud is going to go through a transformation process to bring it up to date with the other transactional services that we’re working on.