Guidance

Selling on the Digital Marketplace

Guidance for suppliers of cloud technology, digital outcomes, user research studios and user research participants.

You must apply to sell your services on the Digital Marketplace. Any public sector organisation, including agencies and arm’s length bodies, can then buy them on the buying platform.

Services and frameworks on the Digital Marketplace

Frameworks are agreements between the government and suppliers to supply certain types of services under specific terms.

Buyers and suppliers still need to sign a contract called a ‘call-off contract’ for each service bought through a framework.

These services are on the Digital Marketplace:

  • cloud software and services (the G-Cloud framework)
  • digital outcomes and user research services (the Digital Outcomes framework)

Sell services on the Digital Marketplace

The process is different for each framework.

Find out more from the following guides:

You can apply when a Find a Tender Service (FTS) contract notice has been issued. When an FTS is issued you’ll have 4 to 6 weeks to apply to the framework.

On average, a contract notice will be issued every:

  • 9 to 18 months for Digital Outcomes
  • 12 months for G-Cloud

If you’re a new supplier, before you can apply you’ll need to create an account on the Digital Marketplace.

If you have previously supplied on the Digital Outcomes and Specialists framework, you can log into your Digital Marketplace account.

Published 13 January 2022
Last updated 14 January 2022 + show all updates
  1. A link to the framework application page has been added.

  2. First published.