A tender notice published last month says that “the current version of CloudStore is insufficiently robust to accommodate GDS’s future roll-out plans that would lead to increased traffic and usage.”
The CloudStore “has to cope with a growing volume of data beyond initial predictions; it is nearing capacity and design limits,” says the tender.
The revamp will broaden the number of features available on the marketplace, and will allow the G Cloud team to include other frameworks on the site. The new site has been provisionally called Government Digital Marketplace
Last month a group of suppliers raised concerns about the CloudStore in an open letter to G-Cloud leader Tony Singleton. A recent Civil Service World round table also highlighted CloudStore’s shortcomings: attendees noted that information on the site is not always clear, and explained that their procurement colleagues are not always confident about how to use CloudStore.