A recent tender notice announced that G-Cloud 15 will replace G-Cloud 14 and Cloud Compute 2, but what does this mean for Astun and our public sector clients?
About G-Cloud 15
In the financial year 2023/4, G-Cloud spend exceeded £3 billion, with an additional £0.5m spend for Cloud Compute. G-Cloud 15, due to run from 17 September 2026 to 16 September 2030 (estimated), will be the largest framework of its kind in the public sector. It will allow users to cloud hosting, software and support services.
Andy Smart, who has paired up with Mike Saunt and Mike Smith to spearhead our G-Cloud 15 submission, comments, “It’s safe to say that G-Cloud 15 will be highly competitive. With an estimated £14 billion total value (ex VAT), suppliers will be angling for their share of the pie. With local government reorganisation also on the cards, it’s an exciting, albeit rather nerve-racking, time to be a supplier of cloud-based geospatial software. Customers should be reassured that the submission process is extremely rigorous with 70 separate documents for potential suppliers to review before the January deadline.”
G-Cloud 15 improvements
According to .gov.uk, G-Cloud 15 will introduce a number of further improvements, mainly focussing on increased playbook and policy compliance and intention to adopt a more traditional approach to evaluation, as seen on other CCS frameworks. These include:
- Leveraging the popularity of G-Cloud to incorporate Cloud Compute services which have historically been available through Cloud Compute 1 and 2, removing the need for Cloud Compute 3
- Discontinuing Lot 4 and enabling both call off with and without competition in all Lots
- Social Value, Quality, and Price Evaluations delivered through the evaluation at scale project, pending digital enhancements
- Introduction of appropriate levels of Economic and Financial Standing (EFS) for each Lot in G-Cloud 15, replacing the Bronze Plus blanket approach used for G-Cloud 14
- Inclusion of prompt payment and no longer needing to seek a Ministerial exemption
- A range of digital enhancements to improve the buyer and supplier experience and provide better quality category information
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