It’s 30 years or more since government first developed IT systems in-house, 20 years since outsourcing became a major trend and 7 years since we should have been 100% online, or digital by default as we now say. Sure we’ve come…
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Posted in G-Cloud
Response to Proact: why we declined to bid for G-Cloud work
Yesterday (28/03/2012) PublicTechnology.net published a letter from Mark Thomson, Public Sector Delivery Manager for Proact UK which outlined why they had not submitted a bid to become a supplier on the G-Cloud. There were a number of reasons given for…
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Posted in Commercial, G-Cloud
Buycamp : this week.
With the G-Cloud framework live, the cloudstore up and running, this week sees us running the first “BuyCamp” – where customers representing all parts of the public sector come together to look at what is available, how they want to…
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Stand (Up) And Deliver – Can SMEs Handle It
With around 50% of the suppliers on the G-Cloud framework qualifying as from the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) sector, some have questioned whether they will be able to deliver what government needs. Armchair, or traditional incumbent, commentators are even…
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Evaluating Services
A couple of weeks ago we had an interesting comment posted that asked what we think the effect of rating services on the cloudstore will be – whether we think it will “level up” offers or act as a brake…
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The Launch
What a week, Arsenal crushed by the Milanese, then by Sunderland and Tottenham held to a draw by Stevenage. Wait. What? There’s always the replay to hope for. And, of course, we launched the cloudstore with over 1,700 services from nearly…
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A response to the gloom:
In the Ovum report today on G-Cloud they say that the Cabinet Office has run a fair and transparent process but that, to their surprise, some of the “biggest pure-play cloud vendors did not bid on this round”. They go on…
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CIOs … You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
CIOs across government today generally buy their IT from a single supplier. Even those who seemingly have a choice, with two suppliers or more contracted to them, can, in reality, only buy certain things from each supplier rather than everything…
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Posted in Change, CIO, G-Cloud, Government
Posted in Change, CIO, G-Cloud, Government