Editor’s Note: CloudStore is a UK government cloud services program analogous to FedRAMP. The Cabinet Office’s “CloudStore buyers guide” is attached here. The list of UK governmental public sector bodies eligible to purchase services on CloudStore is available here. The CloudStore Buyers Guide provides “Comprehensive information about how services are supplied to CloudStore and what public sector bodies should do to buy digital services quickly and simply.”
The following is from the Buyers Guide:
Expectation setting
G-Cloud is a change programme that has the aim of helping the public sector buy and consume ICT services differently. G-Cloud’s focus is cloud based commodity services. G-Cloud comprises a set of tools such as the frameworks, the CloudStore that lists services on those frameworks, a set of other resources such as events and documents like this, and a central team to help the public sector move to commodity based ICT.
G-Cloud is part of the Government’s ICT strategy and supports the target of getting 50% of ICT spend based on public cloud.
The “Cloud First” Policy mandates Central Government to consider the use of G-Cloud in the first instance to consider suitability, and strongly recommends all other public bodies to consider the use of G-Cloud when carrying out ICT procurements. In most cases there is an overwhelming business reason for the use of cloud over traditional outsourced IT and G-Cloud over traditional procurements.
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