Recommendation 7

We therefore asked how government was keeping up with the pace of change in technology markets, and when we could expect a coherent strategy in response. DSIT recognised that there was currently a gap between the market in which it was operating and its approach and committed to publishing a sourcing strategy. DSIT similarly recognised that the technology market had shifted, and that sourcing in digital was “probably more complicated than it used to be”. It told us that it would need strategies for approaching different parts of the market. It explained that the big platform providers—those that provide, for example, cloud and office software—have different business models and incentives compared to the large system integrators and consultants that run projects and are different again from those who ship hardware. It noted that its approach to each of these would have to be tailored to their business models.9