G-Cloud News

In summary

The big news is that spend continues to rise with new records of £76m in October and £78m in November. Q4 2016 looks like the second consecutive quarter above £200m.

The future

Spend with Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SME) looks set to top £1bn in January 2017 in line with our forecasts. Spend with SMEs is £952m to date.

Support for SMEs is also growing with regard to the percentage of spend, up from 48% in 2013 to 61% in 2016.

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. We have seen no slowdown in growth.

The number of customers has risen by 26 (bringing the total to 1336).

The number of suppliers has risen by 26 (bringing the total to 976).

You can see the trends in growth of suppliers and buyers using the Framework Analysis tab on the G-Cloud Spend page. Note - it may take the Framework Analysis tab a few seconds to load because the page does a lot of number crunching.

Overall framework stats