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Home Office signs £23m software support deal for key immigration system database
Contract covers the delivery of increased internal capability for department
Ministers pledge to remove Chinese tech from government sites
Move comes alongside plan to create national security-focused procurement team
Home Office anti-terror comms-interception unit hires £6m project managers to address ‘lack of skill set’
NCDS is currently engaged in ‘moving towards new ways of working’ to reflect legislative changes...
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NHS unveils £1bn plan for primary-care digital deals including patient records and remote consultations
Potential providers invited to respond to early-engagement notice
Cost of developing emergency alerts system pegged at £25m
Minister reveals up more than £4m spent on testing, security and other support contracts
DWP, Home Office, MoJ and Defra launch £1bn tender for shared services tech providers
Departments look to sign joint deal with a software provider and a system integrator
Ministry of Justice floats £200m opportunity for long-term WAN provider
Department seeks bids for seven-year contract as part of major programme to replace networks
MoD begins work on IT system to register and track evacuees from crisis zones
Ministry reveals it has begun work on concept phase of potential software tool to manage information on 10,000 people
Small boats: Home Office spends £1.5m on tech ‘to track migrants and their property’
Department signs two-year deal with firm specialised in barcodes and tracking
ONS seeks new data source on UK firms’ overseas owners
Statistics agency looks to establish a single unified partnership
‘Extremely concerned and disappointed’ – more councils caught up in Capita breach
Authorities have complained about the lack of time taken to be notified by IT firm and wrongly being told personal data was not put at risk
Courts service unveils £24m plan to expand video hearings system nationwide
HMCTS reveals remote processes have become an ‘integral part’ of the justice system following the coronavirus crisis
Home Office starts search for £1bn ESN partner and system to measure ‘coverage and quality’ of supplier networks
Department opens bidding for firm to replace Motorola in delivering core user services
Scottish Government retains suppliers on £200m framework for IT temps
Four firms feature on four-year deal
Full deployment of Common Platform pushed back another year to 2025
Courts service leader tells MPs that ‘core functionality’ will be in place in the next year
Rochford District Council pins data breach on Capita’s ‘unsafe storage’
Authority claims it is taking ‘swift and decisive action’ in response to incident it claims affected several councils
Motorola removed from government strategic suppliers list following ESN exit
Company claims excision from roster of Whitehall's most significant commercial partners is a ‘routine update’
NHS spends £8m on one-month extensions for major Microsoft deals
Health service puts in place short-term arrangements with incumbent reseller suppliers
Home Office biometrics scheme delays delivery date and faces cost ‘pressures’
Updated assessment reveals £27m in additional spending and possibility that department ‘will consider reduced programme scope’
Public-health agency to continue using mobile-network data to track population movement
UKHSA signs deals with BT and O2 to provide insights into ‘behavioural changes post-pandemic’
Home Office signs £72m deal to develop and support all department’s apps
Atos wins three-year contract to assist with Shared Application Service
Emergency Services Network delivery date set to 2029
Troubled programme began work in 2015 and is now expected to complete a full decade behind original schedule
Only two firms bid for £5m deal to support Emergency Alerts
Minister reveals small number of interested parties in deal to deliver, design and support nationwide service
Whitehall shared-services implementation requires funding and focus, MPs warn
Public Accounts Committee warns that lack of support could imperil delivery