The Cabinet Office has released the latest G-Cloud CloudStore sales data, which show that public sector buyers have now bought £271m worth of ICT goods and services through this portal.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has struck a deal with consulting and outsourcing solutions provider CSC to protect its infrastructure from attacks and intrusion.
The services, which are banned under the G-Cloud 5 rules, are still lingering in the CloudStore and providers have asked that they all be removed immediately.
The company has implemented 200 additional services that utilise its government accreditation and can be used by SMEs to procure public sector contracts.
The lion’s share of CloudStore activity is down to central government, and more needs to be done to communicate its cloudy benefits to local authorities.
SMEs on the G-Cloud framework are a key driver for the UK's economic growth and the central government needs to work harder to get them seen, heard and used.
G-Cloud 5 went live on Friday 23rd May - but programme director Tony Singleton has been forced to apologise for delays in getting the CloudStore online.
In the next in our series looking at small, promising new entrants to the UK public sector tech supply chain, we meet Martin Bradburn, Chief Executive Officer of Weybridge, Surrey-based cloud services player PeaSoup.
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