I look forward to.....
Francis Maud reading an IT contract and understanding it, they run to thousands of pages, so I can't see any minister reading any of them. They would be hard pushed to understand the IT detail.
I also can't see all government contracts going on to the Internet, most government systems are GPMS at RESTRICTED and above, so the technical details and composition of the systems are not for public consumption for some very good reasons.
Mind you the quality of the requirements, and the answers given, might give a few laughs, I hope the Register is preparing a crack team of jouno's to paw through all these contracts.
So far as being in the List X club goes, it's not difficult to join, just expensive, how to get list X accreditation is available to all, not all contracts require it, and most small niche players come in under a Prime contractor, who helps them.
I doubt Fujitsu and SERCO are good examples of the in club though, neither is doing that well with government IT at present.
Government procurement is fair, to the point of stupidity, it costs a fortune most of the time to bid, even for frameworks, and it's stunningly easy to be excluded for a trivial mistake, as quite a few SI's have found out over the years, getting themselves locked out of frameworks like Catalyst.