CloudStore is app store for a public sector of Great Britain

2012: Choice of suppliers

In February, 2012 the cabinet of Great Britain within the government ^[1] program a task to 255 suppliers of information technologies and services of communication of all forms and the sizes on sale of their services to users of the state cloud directory of ^[2] services.

The first government tranche in the amount of £60 million was spent for it. This amount, in process of its mastering, will come for payment 1700 different ICT services to four sectors (lot) of the cloud state order: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and also to providers of "clouds".

As a part of the list of suppliers of cloud services published on February 19, 2012 along with the known integrators, providers and resellers like Computacenter, SCC, Kelway, 2e2 and Trustmarque, the set of small specialized firms is provided.

The representative of the government of Great Britain Francis Maude said that CloudStore will make process of state procurements "quicker, more simply, cheaper and is more transparent both for public sector, and for suppliers". According to him, dynamics of the online market will keep suppliers in readiness while contracts will be limited for 12 months, and implementation model, as expected, uberezhyot from unpleasant financial "surprises".

The The Register edition with reference to the cabinet reported that the application for participation in the G-Cloud program was submitted by 600 suppliers. It was necessary to postpone the time of summing up a little because of a large number of applicants for participation in the tender. Process of tender was completely processed to facilitate participation of the enterprises of small and medium business. According to data of the secretariat of the cabinet, SMP (small business entities) make about 50% of the total number of participants of the CloudStore program.

Ancoris – one of small providers of "cloud" services who managed to acquire the right to work in all four sectors (lots) of the program. David McLeman, the marketing director of Ancoris company, noted that G-Cloud - "leaving from old cartel of the largest suppliers working the difficult government IT projects dominating in the sector of the state IT". According to him, earlier from interaction with a public sector of the company kept the cost and complexity of process of purchases.

According to assessment of treasury of Great Britain, G-Cloud can reduce the annual IT fund of the government making nowadays £16 billion by £3.2 billion, and the purpose of the Minister of Finance George Osborne – to reduce public sector costs by 20%.

2013: Sales of services go for take-off

Thanks to support of implementation of cloud services at the state level of sale of services in the directory in March, 2013 reached peak values for all history of its existence.

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IT in a public sector of Great Britain