17 September 2026 · 7 min
The two doors
Crown Commercial Service lists suppliers on G-Cloud 14 for cloud software, hosting and support, and on Digital Outcomes and Specialists 7 (DOS 7, RM1043.9) for outcome-based digital work and named specialists. Buyers in central government, the NHS, local authorities and ALBs can call off without a full open tender. That is the point of the frameworks.
iDataMaze Limited is listed. Day rates sit on the Digital Marketplace. Write to commercial@idatamaze.com if you are buying that way.
What GDS actually asks for
The Government Digital Service Standard is not a branding exercise. Discovery before a solution. Users named, not imagined. Accessibility as a requirement. Data that can be exported. Security that matches the information, not a generic badge. Agile phases that can stop if the evidence says stop.
We treat those as the default for public work, and we use the same habits on commercial work when the data is sensitive. A discovery that produces a honest 'no' is a success. A beta that cannot be operated is not.
How a small practice delivers it
You get the people who write the SQL, not an account team. Catalogues, migrations, models and the security around them, sized to the brief. If you need a crowd, we are the wrong firm. If you need a path through an estate you already have, that is the work.
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