The G-Cloud is helping buyers achieve significant savings with the cloud’s director Tony Singleton saying that buyers are saving 50 per cent on average.

The announcement comes as the Government Digital Service (GDS) prepares to release a report on the G-Cloud and what success the procurement portal has had in generating public sector savings.

The government procurement cloud service has recorded £124 million of sales so far, with the governments SME focus appearing to have succeeded, with 59 per cent of sales going to small and medium businesses.

Mr Singleton said in a blog post that the: “G-Cloud is about more than sales; it is about transforming the way the public sector buys cloud-based services, and it is one of the frameworks supporting a wider business IT transformation.

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