Bramble Hub has been named as a supplier on Crown Commercial Service’s (CCS’s) G-Cloud 13 Lot 4 framework. Although this framework was due to open on 5th December 2022, its launch was unexpectedly delayed by CCS, which stated in an email to suppliers:

“Following careful consideration, CCS has taken the difficult decision to delay the launch of this agreement.

CCS is working to make our agreements easier to use, to provide a better experience for our customers and suppliers on the new digital service.

We are focused on ensuring that we deliver a quality service to our customers and suppliers through rigorous testing, and this process has produced insight that we need to consider in more depth before we can roll this out.

We appreciate that this will be disappointing for you and many of our customers, but we are confident that delaying the launch is the right thing to do and will allow us to go live with an improved digital experience for our customers.”

The new framework is a break from G-Cloud tradition: until now, G-Cloud has taken a catalogue approach, through which customers can directly select simple cloud-related products and services. Lot 4, however, is a competitive framework aimed at larger and more complex projects that go beyond a catalogue-based purchase. The traditional catalogue approach continues with G-Cloud 13 Lots 1-3, which (as we reported) launched recently.

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