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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Passport Office seeks £7.5m IT partner for final stages of troubled transformation scheme
Programme is getting closer to completion – but years behind schedule and at nearly treble originally slated cost
National Situation Centre taps mobile network data for ‘insights on behaviours of millions of people’
Cabinet Office-based facility signs £800k deal with mobile network operator
ONS seeks £8m partner to help increase use of digital surveys
Statistics agency looks to build on the rollout of the UK’s first-ever digital census last year
Government does ‘not expect public-service disruption’ over UKCloud insolvency
Public sector hosting provider has suspended itself from frameworks after being placed in compulsory liquidation
Tourism agency invests in software tool to boost work with online influencers
Technology will help track and monitor content posted by social media users
Spend controls and patchy engagement hampering efforts to boost civil service commercial skills, according to Whitehall chief
Ongoing ‘competing priorities’ still get in the way of long-term work to boost buying savvy, says Alex Chisholm
Bank of England signs deal with £45m IT partner
Tech company will provide central bank with a range of hardware, software and services
HMRC property-valuation unit invests in web-mapping tool for ‘historical aerial photographs’
Agency that helps set council tax signs 18-month deal with specialist data firm
Government seeks new IT provider for property database after scrapping initial deal
Cabinet Office-led project has been delayed after work with original tech partner was cut short
GDS signs £5m support deal for new Emergency Alerts Service
New government initiative to send SMS warnings picks core supplier
Foreign Office signs £7.5m two-year deal to support cyber transformation
Department signs deal with defence contractor
DHSC waves goodbye to commercial chief
Department’s first-ever CCO is to leave Whitehall after leading engagement with healthtech sector and overseeing Covid supply activities
Leeds looks to robotics to help transform services despite ‘significant financial challenges’
City council to undertake year-long six-figure programme of work
Mental health: NHS looks to digital and data to close ‘historic treatment gap’
Supplier sought for £400k programme to explore possibilities for use of tech and information sharing
NHS signs £400k deal to clear backlog of online content reviews
Online information on health conditions and treatments is supposed to be reviewed every three years
Government taps Rightmove for parking data in £25k deal
Department for Transport signs contract with online property firm
Covid contracts: PAC chair calls out use of procurement short-cuts
Meg Hillier claims that massive deals were awarded without competition as emergency measures were used for longer than required
Ofcom to probe dominance of big three public-cloud players
Communications regulator will examine whether the current market conditions stymie innovation and opportunities for smaller players
MoD appoints £2m cyber specialist to test Army IT vulnerabilities
Firm will be asked to assess existing and new tech platforms
NHS unveils £30m framework for repairs and refurbished devices
Five suppliers appointed to potential four-year arrangement
GDS floats another £4m bench agreement for on-demand digital project support
External supplier will enter into two-year deal to respond to departments' urgent requirements