The CloudStore for UK government launched in beta in February 2012, following the UK G-Cloud programme's October 2011 invitation to tender for the government's 2011-2012T pilot cloud computing framework, UK G-Cloud v1.
The October 2011 draft framework agreement, included in the invitation to tender, did not contain the following liability provisions. They were added in the December 2011 draft of the framework agreement, then expanded in the final form. The strike through text was deleted between April 2012 and is not in the final signed form.
For a description and assessment of UK G-Cloud v1, including lessons learned, particularly contractual and other legal issues, see our paper UK G-Cloud v1 and the Impact on Cloud Contracts.