The government has begun the second phase of procurement for the G-Cloud. The new framework hopes to draw offers of services from suppliers of which many are expected to be SMEs.

The first G-Cloud framework was made available through the government’s online portal Cloudstore. It saw 257 suppliers offering around 1,700 services signed up, with over 50% of these believed to be SMEs.

By reissuing the framework, the government hope that the G-Cloud will keep up with the pace of technological changes and as a result provide the most up to date service products to the public sector.

A spokesperson for the G-Cloud said: “We want to ensure that we have as big a range of services available as possible and that the content of the Cloudstore is kept fresh and up-to-date to ensure that governments use of technology can keep pace with the constantly evolving boundaries and new innovations that are happening all the time.”

They continued: “The whole purpose of the G-Cloud is to create a dynamic type of procurement to facilitate this. This procurement round is the second in an ongoing programme of continuous iterative procurements.”