The Cabinet Office has published the latest round of sales figures for the government CloudStore, showing purchases made through the online market place dropping off over the last three months.
The CloudStore, which went live in February, allows public sector organisations to buy from a catalogue of cloud software, infrastructure, platform and other services.
Between April and June, £729,848.99 has been spent through the CloudStore. In April, £555,817.74-worth of purchases were made through it – by May that had fallen to £162,959.25, and by June, just £11,072 had been spent through it.
The £11,072 was spent by a single body – the Student Loans Company – with supplier Quo Imus.
April represents something of a high watermark for the CloudStore: figures released in June showed around £453,000 of CloudStore purchases were made in February and March.
Huddle emerged as one of the CloudStore favourites in the February and March, accounting for over £400,000 of business. It has continued to be popular, doing the most business of any single vendor: between April and June, it raked in £427,325 of the £729,848.
Other suppliers making hay from the CloudStore included Microsoft with £82,626, Symantec with £77,139 and Emergn with £58,850.
The biggest spending organisation during the period was Hampshire County Council, which spent £77,760 with Microsoft – nearly all the business that Redmond did through the CloudStore.
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