Liam Maxwell, the deputy government CIO, has pledged to enhance and streamline the G-Cloud accreditation process.

Areas including the security accreditation process will be enhanced in early 2013 in order to decrease procurement times and increase the ease-of-access for public sector suppliers. The G-Cloud has gained a reputation for being overly complicated, with few suppliers achieving accreditation.

Maxwell said: One of the things I’m taking most seriously is the view that it takes so long to accredit. I give you a commitment, probably in about two or three months, we will have a more streamlined, more effective, accreditation scheme, which helps people get there.”