Thousands of small businesses lined up for G-Cloud 10

Thousands of small businesses have won the chance to bid to supply cloud computing services to government bodies through a major government procurement framework (July 3rd).G-Cloud 10, which could eventually be worth £600 million, is now open for business.3,505 suppliers – with more than 90 per cent of them SMEs – have been awarded places on the new Crown Commercial Service framework. G-Cloud 10 has 3,505 suppliers – 649 more than G-Cloud 9.Since 2012, more than £3 billion of cloud and digital services have been procured by public bodies through G-Cloud, with 48 per cent of that spend going directly to SMEs.G-Cloud gives central government, local councils, NHS Trusts and other public sector bodies a way to purchase cloud-based services such as web hosting from a single, central website.