Chris Chant, Executive Director in the Cabinet Office working as Programme Director for the G-Cloud has encouraged SMES to respond to the G-Cloud Tender

Chris said: "We have made the G-Cloud procurement a lot easier to understand and get through. G-Cloud has no massively complex set of requirements that you need a PhD to understand. Just use the

forms to tell us what services you have – all the documentation is online and we’ve written a simple guide if you have never worked with us before. In fact if you haven’t we really want you to apply.

"We can do more and we will do more. The GDS Innovation team is opening up new channels for suppliers to work with us, especially on small projects. We can and will make procurement even simpler for everyone. So, if you are an SME, any supplier that’s never worked with government, or an existing supplier that “gets” cloud – you are the type of people we need to work with the deliver the savings all of us need. Come on, talk to us."