The Crown Commercial Service has launched a tender worth up to £300m for a framework to provide ICT to schools and other educational institutions....
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Weekly tenders update
The Crown Commercial Service has launched a tender worth up to £2bn for telecommunications services over the Public Services Network....
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Socitm announces 2014 awards
Staffordshire County Council’s chief information officer Sander Kristel has won Socitm’s digital engagement award 2014 for his joint working with a digital transformation consultancy....
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Interview: Mike Bracken
Government executive director of digital Mike Bracken says he has no capacity to run a local but points to ways councils can benefit from his unit’s work....
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Labour mulls regional GDS structure
Labour’s Digital Government Review could recommend a regional model for a local version of the Government Digital Service, shadow Cabinet Office Chi Onwurah has hinted....
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Councils ‘should become Digital Marketplace suppliers’
Local authorities are being encouraged to share successful digital products and services they develop by making them available on the Digital Marketplace platform....
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Big Data – the power to transform
Big data has the potential to completely transform our economy, and public bodies need to bolt-on additional capacity to deal with the change, argues Pilar del Castillo Vera....
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G-Cloud sales jump during September
Purchases by local authorities through the G-Cloud framework totalled £1.75m in September, up 40% on the figure for August....
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G-Cloud suppliers set for new flexibilities
The government is pushing forward plans to allow suppliers to amend the services they offer via G-Cloud without having to wait for new iterations of the framework....
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Council chiefs ‘fear demand’ created by digital
Corporate managers in some councils are reluctant to invest in channel shift because of fears it will increase demand for services, according to Socitm president Nick Roberts....
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