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Since last year we've transitioned 102 agency and ALB (Arm's Length Body) organisations
and their associated websites over to GOV.UK. This is a third of the way through. We know
that we've got another 193 to transition and we think that's about 350 to 400 more websites.
Some of them can be done as quickly as 4 to 6 weeks, and the bigger ones we know are going
to take at least 6 months going right through to 12 months purely because of the amount
of content. With the top 20, we're at the user needs step of the process, so before
Christmas those agencies should all be ready to start building and creating the content
that we agree should be moved over to GOV.UK, and at the same time archiving the content
that no longer meets a user need.
G-Cloud is a procurement framework for procuring cloud commodity services. It's like any other
procurement framework except that it's open for the entire public sector to use whenever
they need it. Last week we had the latest iteration of that go out to G4. We had a really
good turnout; we had 999 suppliers with over 13,000 services now live for the whole public
sector to buy, and we also had 84% of those coming from SMEs. We've had an additional
number, obviously quite a lot more suppliers come on, more services, and generally lower
prices for the services as well, so the public sector buyers should be able to get a better
selection of services at a better price.