Looking forward to seeing the CrownCommercialServ Contract and Award Service (CAS) beta assessment report (I believe CAS will see the Digital Marketplace retired once the Digital Outcomes 6 and G-Cloud 13 frameworks go live...?) gov.uk/service-standa…

CrownCommercialServ It would have been great if there was more willingness to work in the open on these developments (e.g. blogging, show and tells, public week notes, etc), as I would imagine the thousands of public sector buyers and suppliers who use the Digital Marketplace, might be interested?

In 2021-22, there were 2,134 'spending customers' and 1,988 'suppliers with spend' totalling £3.7 billion (including £1.4 billion with 1,463 SMEs)... app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjo…

Apart from the Technology Products 2 framework, it's only Digital Marketplace frameworks that feature in the '5.3 SME Numbers Growth Over Time' table in CCS's SME Action Plan... gov.uk/government/pub…

I'm looking forward to CCS's Annual Report and Accounts for 2021 to 2022, which I imagine will be published next month or thereabouts, which stated that £1.54 billion was spent directly with SMEs through their commercial agreements in 2020-21... gov.uk/government/pub…

Digital Marketplace spend with SMEs in 2020-21 was £1.2 billion, representing 78% of the total direct spend with SMEs through all of CCS's commercial agreements...

They also stated that an additional £302 million was spent directly with SMEs compared to 2019-20; Digital Marketplace spend with SMEs in 2019-20 was £895 million, so £305 million more in 2020-21...