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Content collaboration platform provider, Huddle, has announced its “biggest year in Government to date”, stating that it has secured double the amount of contracts over the first eight months of its financial year compared to the number closed in 2011/12. Moreover, it has won the greatest proportion of deals on the Cloudstore – 14% of the 95 deals undertaken.
We’ve just taken a look at the data available on the Cloudstore website showing how much business is going through the Cloudstore and which suppliers are benefitting. The data has only been updated through to the end of November so it’s not up-to-date. Nonetheless a bit of number-crunching reveals that up to that point in time there had been nearly £4m of business done through the framework. Of that, Huddle pocketed close to £500K.
As Huddle points out though, it is the third most successful supplier on the Cloudstore if business is measured by value. Emergn (which, according to its website “utilises agile and lean principles and practices” to “help its clients drive IT change initiatives that fundamentally enhance organisational agility”) won £802K of business over the same time period. BJSS, meanwhile, which uses an ‘agile’ approach to solve complex IT problems, has won £702K of business with just one client – NHS Connecting for Health. Overall, Huddle, Emergn and BJSS won 50% of the Cloudstore business by value over that time frame. 38 other suppliers shared the other 50%. And that still leaves more than 400 listed suppliers that are so far disappointed.
Also interesting is that despite Huddle’s presence on the G-Cloud framework (via the Cloudstore), there are still plenty of organisations that have chosen not to use the framework as a procurement vehicle. From the examples given by Huddle, those utilising the G-Cloud framework have been central government organisations, in particular smaller agencies (Boundary Commission for England, Forestry Commission, Ordnance Survey, Crown Prosecution Service). Others – NHS South Cheshire, Essex County Fire and Rescue, Surrey County Council, Dorset County Council and NHS 24 – have chosen alternative means of procurement despite the Cloudstore being open to all areas of the UK public sector.