UK PS Procurement for Digital

SME’s

TechResort Eastbourne

November 2015

Chris Farthing

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Lot 4 Specialist Cloud Services GC iv, v, vi & vii*

Public Sector IT Procurement

X - How it was

* Source Kable

*

Public Sector IT Procurement

X - How it was *

18 months

*source GDS (Tony Singleton)

Public Sector IT Procurement

Now – focus on Agile*

1-30 days *Source GDS (Tony Singleton)

G-Cloud Impact

Through 745* / 33,000+ buying organisations

*Source @GovSpendUK

Digital Outcomes & Specialists (DOS)

Overview

• What is the DOS framework for?

– Allows government to buy:

• Bespoke software builds / digital outcomes

• Specific digital roles

• Research facilities

• What is it worth?

– c£50-100m worth of projects / roles

commissioned within a 9-12 month period

Overview

• Based on

– GDS Digital Default Service Standard

– GDS Service Design Manual

Structure

• 4 Lots / Categories

– Lot 1 Digital Outcomes

– Lot 2 Digital Specialists

– Lot 3 User labs / research studios

– Lot 4 User research participants

Structure

• 11 Regions

– Scotland

– North East England

– North West England

– Yorkshire and the Humber

– East Midlands

– The Midlands East

– Wales

– London

– South East England

– West England

– Northern Ireland

Structure• Lot 1 Digital Outcomes – solutions to provide

• user experience and design

• performance analysis and data

• security

• service delivery

• service development

• support and operations

• testing and auditing

• user research

Outcomes to a digital service during phases outlined in Service Design Manual

Structure

• Lot 2 Digital Specialists

• agile coach

• business analyst

• content designer or copywriter

• cyber security specialist

• delivery manager

or project manager

• designer

• developer

• communications specialist

• performance analyst

• portfolio manager

• product manager

• programme delivery manager

• security expert

• service manager

• technical architect

• user researcher

• web operations engineer

On / Off site Min Max Price

Structure

• Lot3 User labs / research studios

• Lot 4 (poss) User research participants

Tender Process

Timeline (est)

• Submission complete by Mid Jan 2015

Nov OJEU

Dec Submit

Jan-Feb Eval

March Live

35-60 Days

Submission Requirements

• DUNS no

• Details of expertise / capability available

• Locations for service delivery

• Price

What is G-Cloud?

What is G-Cloud?

• OJEU Compliant Framework

• 4 Lots – IAAS, PAAS, SAAS & SCS

• Updated every 6 months

• Aimed at SMEs

• Quicker – typical proc times are 1-30 days

• Supplier own terms (UNIQUE!)

• All data published (pricing, terms, services)

• Supports CG Cloud First mandate

What is G-Cloud?

• Commodity Cloud solutions

• Supporting Professional services

• Pay as you go

• No long term lock in

• Scale up or down

• Being used as a model for PS Proc Globally (Denmark, Aus, S Korea, EU)

• GC8 out by May 2nd 2016

Advice Cloud Services

Q&A

Information linksG-Cloud Services

• https://www.digitalmarketplace.service.gov.uk/

CCS Procurement

• https://ccs.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/

GDS Blog

• https://digitalmarketplace.blog.gov.uk/

G-Cloud Spend Data

• https://digitalmarketplace.blog.gov.uk/sales-accreditation-information/

Thank you

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