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After the initial analysis of challenges and barriers that exist in cloud procurement (survey on Procurement of Cloud services: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PICSE) we would like to understand specific barriers that public sector organisations (mainly reserach institutes and libraries) are facing while procuring IaaS and PaaS/SaaS services through two short follow up surveys.

Interesting blog post by Ivan Harris, 15 December, 2014.

"As we head into 2015, my expectation is that the pace of cloud adoption will grow at an even faster rate. To achieve that I think there are three areas suppliers and the G-Cloud team need to address in the year ahead.

To ensure that Europe reaps the benefits of the shift to cloud computing, there is the need to focus on new ways of procuring cloud based services. We have to be sure that our the PICSE Procurer's platform reflects the requirements of our stakeholders and therefore we invite you to contribute to this by taking part in our survey.

UK Central government organisations are responsible for over three quarters of G-Cloud purchases on a value basis, with total sales through the framework since its launch reaching £345.6m as of October 2014. According to the latest Cabinet Office figures, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have accounted for £184m worth of services sold though G-Cloud by the end of last month, amounting to 53.2% of all sales in terms of value. Large enterprises were responsible for the remaining £162m of public sector spending through the framework.