David Muir's blog

If you provide cloud-based services and want to sell to the government then listing on G-Cloud is a must.

With sales of nearly £2.9 billion coming via the G-Cloud framework since its inception in 2012 to the end of 2017 it represents a significant opportunity for business.

Although in 2017 almost £500 million of sales were placed with SMEs as part of the G-Cloud framework, the vast majority of G-Cloud suppliers actually delivered nothing at all.

The General Data protection regulation (GDPR) comes into force on 25 May 2018, 2 years since the regulation was made in April 2016.

With the prospect of administrative fines of up to €20 million or 4% of annual global turnover. If it's not high on your radar, it should be.

Are we all compliant and ready for the May implementation?

Do we know our DPO from our BCRs? *

Here at eXceeding we do. Our consultants have been helping our partners plan and implement their GDPR policies and procedures to achieve compliance.

With the announcement by De la Rue on the 22 March 2018 that, on the completion of the current bid cycle, they would no longer be producing the British passport “despite submitting a high quality, competitive bid” we can see that size and history are no guarantee of success.