The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) is reviewing its decision to ramp up the insurance cover needed by prospective suppliers on its flagship cloud computing framework, G-Cloud, by £20m after being criticised about how anti-small business the change would be.
The situation has seen at least one government minister pledge to investigate since Computer Weekly first reported the change on 28 February 2024, on the basis that these uplifted insurance costs would make participating in the framework cost-prohibitive for many smaller government IT suppliers.
