An open standard for public procurement and contracting data
Last month I wrote a post about how government is supporting open data standards in public procurement and contracting. I suggested that the quality and amount of data around government contracts could...
View ArticleHow we’re iterating on Digital Outcomes and Specialists
Since the ‘earliest usable product’ of the Digital Outcomes and Specialists buying journey went live at the end of April, over 110 opportunities for work in the public sector have been published on the...
View ArticleStarting to talk about G-Cloud 9 and security
We recently blogged about our plans to do a discovery for G-Cloud 9 (G9). Although this piece of work hasn’t started just yet, we’re already thinking about what we need to find out. One of the things...
View ArticleWorking with the Standards Hub to make public procurement and contracting...
I recently blogged about how government is supporting open data standards in public procurement and contracting and what we’re doing to move towards an open standard for public procurement and...
View ArticleWorking together to design government contracts for the digital age
This is a joint blog post written by Jason Waterman from the Crown Commercial Service (CCS), and Warren Smith from Government Digital Service (GDS). We first started talking about creating simpler,...
View ArticleMaking Digital Outcomes and Specialists better for you (Part 1)
We've been continuously improving the Digital Outcomes and Specialists framework since it arrived on the Digital Marketplace in April. Our development team works in 2 week 'sprints'. These are set...
View ArticleAdding filtering to the opportunities page
With over 170 opportunities now published on the Digital Marketplace, suppliers have told us it’s hard to find the opportunities they’re interested in. To make this easier, we tested adding some simple...
View ArticleUpdates to Digital Outcomes and Specialists 2 draft documents
Last week we wrote that we would be opening applications for Digital Outcomes and Specialists 2 a little later than expected. We needed some more time to prepare a small number of changes to the...
View ArticleBringing government procurement into the digital age
I work on the Digital Marketplace team. Our mission is to help the public sector buy what it needs to deliver great digital services. We’ve been applying GDS design principles to a very important but...
View ArticleDefining the scope of the model contracts alpha
Government Digital Service (GDS) and Crown Commercial Service (CCS) are on a mission to create model framework agreements and call-off contracts that successfully meet users’ needs and are fit for a...
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