More than 450 suppliers have been added to the second version of the G-Cloud, including Salesforce, Amazon Web Services, IBM and Capgemini.

The introduction of Salesforce to the G-Cloud will allow public sector departments to deploy the cloud platform services.

Salesforce EMEA chairman Steve Garnett, said: “Now, with salesforce.com joining the G-Cloud framework, the UK public sector can harness the power of social and mobile cloud computing to innovate and transform.”

Currently more than £2.2 million has been spent through the G-Cloud on IT services alone.