G-Cloud News

In summary

The big news is the sudden increase in the value of spend going through the G-Cloud framework with the latest three months averaging over £60m.

March set a new record with spend of £69m. That is more than £10m higher than the previous record - £58.4m in Sep 2015

HMRC is leading the way for central government departments on the proportion of spend with SMEs, an impressive 96% from a total spend of £57m making them the second highest spender with SMEs. Home Office has spent most with SMEs (£93m) representing 47% of the department's total spend via G-Cloud.

The future

The big unknown is the impact of G-Cloud Lot 4 spend moving to be procured via the Digital Outcomes and Specialists (DOS) framework. We are hoping that Cabinet Office will publish DOS spend data so we can see how these frameworks co-exist and whether DOS takes over from G-Cloud for the procurement of consulting style services.

Supplier and Buyer growth

Growth in the number of buyers and suppliers has been resiliently positive each month since the launch of the framework, with approx. 20 new buyers and 15 new suppliers being added each month. This is pretty impressive expansion of the use of the G-Cloud framework