{"id":79244,"date":"2017-02-24T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=5a01fd1b6b911a93d76106e3c9cefc03"},"modified":"2017-02-27T09:46:19","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T09:46:19","slug":"news-story-new-digital-framework-attracts-thousands-of-small-and-medium-sized-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=79244","title":{"rendered":"News story: New digital framework attracts thousands of small and medium-sized businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Updated:<\/em> Changed picture<\/p>\n<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The framework, which launches today (24 February 2017), has attracted 2,018 suppliers in total, with 94% of them small and medium-sized enterprises.<\/p>\n<p>Digital Outcomes and Specialists 2 helps the public sector to find suppliers that can provide teams or specialists to help deliver digital projects.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"how-it-will-work\">How it will work<\/h2>\n<p>The framework replaces Digital Outcomes and Specialists 1, and has over 800 more suppliers signed up.<\/p>\n<p>Digital Outcomes and Specialists 2 is split into four lots; digital outcomes, digital specialists, user research studios and user research participants.<\/p>\n<p>The framework goes live today for 12 months, with a 12 month extension option.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"how-it-meets-government-priorities\">How it meets government priorities<\/h2>\n<p>The government has a target of spending \u00a31 in every \u00a33 with small businesses by 2020.<\/p>\n<p>This is equivalent to around \u00a315 billion worth of purchases each year; a big opportunity for small businesses.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about Digital Outcomes and Specialists 2, visit the Digital Marketplace at www.gov.uk\/digital-marketplace.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Digital Outcomes and Specialists 2 framework from Crown Commercial Service and Government Digital Service is giving almost 2,000 SMEs the chance to become suppliers to the public sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79276,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79244\/revisions\/79276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}