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Public sector organisations in the UK will be able to buy cloud-based IT products and services from suppliers from a new online platform from the end of the month. The Government Digital Service, which is part of the Cabinet Office, said all "G-Cloud" purchases are likely to be made via the "Digital Marketplace" before the end …

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  1. Pascal Monett Silver badge

    Whoa there, just a minute

    "Digital marketplace is reaching a stage which allows us to consider making it the route for G-Cloud purchases,"

    It may be true that the digital marketplace is ready, but I seriously doubt the government is. You need to hold your horses while you still have some left (what with all the ones that have already bolted long ago) and give more thought to the whole scheme.

    And I don't care how much thought has been given, since past projects clearly demonstrate that enough thought has never been given to any government project.

    So get back to the drawing board and make sure that all contingencies have been planned for. Then plan for the ones that haven't, for a change.

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  2. gerryg

    better value for money...

    Does anyone actually know what "better value for money" actually means? Until then a requirement to "comply unless" is vacuous.

    Actually, "value for money" is part of the boiler-plate in the topsy-turvy world of the rules of appointing Departmental Accounting Officers; the ones who have to report to HM Treasury on how the money has been spent.

    Imagine having an accounting officer who did not have to achieve value for money? But we need to know what they value before we know what is better.

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      Re: better value for money...

      we need to know what they value before we know what is better

      You may not have any idea how much truth is behind your apparently innocent one-liner...

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  3. Frankee Llonnygog

    Slightly better than Cloudstore

    It has a working search engine. However, they need to stop suppliers clicking every single category for their products, not matter how unrelated. In other words, it will need some curation

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  4. BearishTendencies

    The Bongmeister had it right.....

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/02/steve_bong_modern_british_heroes/

    Hero Number 2. GDS remaking the same website again. That's what I call best value for money for the taxpayer.

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  5. D Moss Esq

    Truth, not trust

    "Truth, not trust" is a slogan that Chris Chant and Tim Hanley have been spraying around @G_Cloud_UK for the past two months or so.

    What they mean is that it is impossible ever to achieve trust in the cloud.

    Far better, they say, to go for truth, by which they mean some incontrovertible way of knowing that your data in the cloud has been changed or stolen.

    How do you achieve that? By hiring Rainmaker, a consultancy promoted by Chant and Hanley.

    And how will Rainmaker help? By deploying Guardtime, an Estonian product that uses some keyless authentication product.

    Having these two point out that you can't trust the cloud doesn't seem to worry Tony Singleton, the head of G-Cloud. He's never bothered to deny their allegations.

    But it may worry G-Cloud's prospective customers, whether they're buying from CloudStore or the Digital Marketplace.

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    Cloud computing goes up in smoke

    http://www.dmossesq.com/2014/08/cloud-computing-goes-up-in-smoke.html

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  6. xyz Silver badge

    Try talking through this cloudy stuff to ...

    ....a department's data guardian and you'll get as far as "yes, it's still your data, but on someone else's servers."

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