McDonagh hit back at negative media reports after the first round of July sales figures were released, claiming that some had reported data inaccurately and that over £1 million spent through the Cloudstore indicates an important shift away from traditional suppliers towards SMEs.

McDonagh said: "Some people who don't really understand the landscape we're working in may well look at that figure and assume that has had very little impact on the estimated sixteen billion pounds a year that government spends on IT.

"This simply highlights that what they don't understand is the relationship between £1 spent with a G-Cloud supplier, and £1 spent with one of the 20 corporations responsible for delivering 90 percent of government IT at present."

She added: "That is why the fact that after only four months of completed data we can clearly see the shift away from the traditional suppliers to the SME's is such a good thing."

In other G-Cloud news, that SCC has become the first supplier to gain pan-government accreditation on the framework, where nine of its newly accredited services are available on Cloudstore.