‘Lifting the digital cloud’
Suzanne Williams
G-Cloud Category Lead Crown Commercial Service
Lucy Belsey
G-Cloud Category Manager Crown Commercial Service
Chris Short
Head of Commissioning Government Digital Service
Agenda
➢ G-Cloud Overview
➢ What Services are Available
➢ Difference between G-Cloud & Digital Services ➢ Terms & Conditions Overview
➢ Compliant Buying Process
➢ Digital Marketplace Tips & Audit Process - Example ➢ Capturing the Benefits
➢ Summary – What Makes it Different ➢ Q & As
What is G-Cloud?
➢ A procurement vehicle that is compliant, regulated and refreshed
➢ Allows public sector customers to buy commoditised cloud based IT services ➢ Facilitates easy in easy out “Pay-as-you-go” contractual arrangements
➢ Provides customers with up-to-date innovative cloud solutions ➢ Supports the Small and Medium Business Agenda
Services across 4 Lots:
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2
3
4
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Infrastructure is the hardware that makes software work
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Platform technologies are software platforms that provide a basis for building other services and applications.
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Is an application or service that can be run over the internet or in the cloud.
Specialist Cloud Services (SCS)
G-Cloud or Digital Services?
G-Cloud
➢ Commodity services ➢ Direct award
➢ Supplier T&Cs
➢ Supplier IPR/Source code ➢ No Agile development configuration only
Digital Services
➢ Bespoke services ➢ Further competition ➢ Government T&C’s➢ Customer IPR/Source code ➢ Agile development - iterative
NB: If you require resource rather than services, ConsultancyONE / Contingent Labour should be considered
Digital Services
Digital Services is a dynamic style framework enabling you to: ➔ buy digital capability (team of people)
➔ design, build & deliver…
digital services - agile software application development
➢ using an agile approach, by procuring the appropriate capability, (people resource) ➢ based on the approach Government Service Design Manual
https://www.gov.uk/service-manual
➢ complying with the Digital by Default Standard https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/digital-by-default.
G-Cloud Key features
➢ Strongly supports the Government Small and Medium Business agenda
➢ Extensive number of commodity services available on the catalogue
➢ Easy in, easy out “Pay-as-you-go” contractual arrangements
➢ Provides a transparent and competitive marketplace
➢ Online catalogue to showcase service offering
➢ More time and cost effective buying process
G-Cloud Hierarchy of Terms and
Conditions Model
Since April 2015 all procurement opportunities (above the thresholds) must be published on Contracts Finder
Digital Marketplace
Tips & Audit Process
Evaluation
Only evaluate the information and documentation on the catalogue, as this is what forms your contract:
➢ Service definition ➢ Pricing document ➢ Terms and conditions
Audit, Evaluation Matrix and Evaluation Score sheet templates can be found via the following link:
Performance monitoring
Please ensure you complete a ‘G-Cloud Customer Benefits Record’ every time you enter in to a new call-off and email it to: [email protected]
What makes it different?
➢ Commercial Agreement is refreshed on a regular basis
➢ Maximum 2 year call-off to ensure best value is being achieved ➢ Services are fixed at point of tender and are non negotiable ➢ Suppliers Terms and Conditions are used to determine how the
service will operate
➢ Supplier Terms and Conditions are fixed at point of tender and visible on the catalogue
➢ Pricing is competitive, visible and offered to all customers ➢ No individual customer service(s) or pricing is available
➢ No Customer OJEU, ITT, RFQ, RFP is allowed under the Terms of the Agreement
