Some government departments spending over half their budget with outsourcers, report finds
Study from IfG finds that outsourcing accounts for a third of all Whitehall spending
Government seeks new major projects chief
IPA chief executive Tony Meggs is departing to take a post at Crossrail
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NEC agrees £475m deal to buy Northgate Public Services
Japanese titan acquires UK government IT specialist
Government unveils new streamlined contract designed to help SMEs win more business
Project required collaboration between CCS, GDS, and Government Legal Department
ICO slaps enforcement notice on Ministry of Justice over data delays
Department accrued a five-year backlog of requests, notice from watchdog reveals
DCMS head Sue Owen on name changes, superfast broadband, and themed cards
The department's perm sec on a year of change
Government appoints champion to promote ‘UK’s answer to Silicon Valley’
Local MP Iain Stewart handed post working to drive tech innovation in the Cambridge-Milton Keynes-Oxford corridor
BEIS sets out plans to combat digital ‘trust and credibility gap’
Department lays out three-year strategy
Companies House nears public beta launch of online accounts-filing platform
Organisation lifts lid on progress of newly built service
GLA seeks provider to help analyse city-simulator exercises
Greater London Authority looks for supplier of system dynamics software
Apple works with HMRC and police to help combat iTunes scammers posing as tax officials
Public urged to be vigilant of fraud in which victims are instructed to buy digital vouchers to pay fictitious tax bills
Real-time information rollout has saved the Exchequer more than £400m but many businesses see it as a burden, HMRC report finds
Department publishes evaluation of benefits and challenges of new system
Border IT systems ‘unlikely’ to be Brexit-ready by 2019, PAC finds
MPs flag Whitehall’s poor record at delivering critical border programmes
‘This does not feel like a good thing’ - G-Cloud suppliers see opportunity and alarm in framework’s extension
Providers ambivalent as CCS and GDS head into a crucial period - one that will bring a potential £1.5bn opportunity, but lots of uncertainty too
MoJ lays out £45m to retain Atos for up to 18 months while it finishes disaggregation work
Department claims that giving French SI a contract extension – without competitive process – is ‘only viable route’ to completing decoupling process
Government review to assess how policy could guide telecoms market into ultrafast future
DCMS-led initiative to examine how policy and market conditions could ensure UK has world-class digital connectivity
CCS tech chief: ‘We need one marketplace for the future’
Crown Marketplace will ultimately supplant Digital Marketplace, technology category director asserts
Think tanks call on government to invest in blockchain
Two reports – from Reform and Lord Holmes – flag up the transformational potential of the distributed ledger technology
Defra invests in social media analysis tool to monitor public attitudes to food issues
Department buys Pulsar technology to keep track of how citizens feel about genetically modified food and other issues
Reaction round-up - industry welcomes Budget tech investments but insists more can be done
An of commentators from tech businesses and industry bodies offer their thoughts on Philip Hammond's Budget
Environment Agency revamps digital tool for waste exporters
Non-departmental body redesigns online platform
‘You should be able to see your entire interaction with us’ – HMRC promises to put its mountain of data to customer-centric use
Organisation’s first-ever CDO looks to improve how the department processes and uses information
Message to Amber Rudd: Undermining encryption makes us less safe
Craig Stewart of Venafi believes that governments need to stop characterising the security technology as the enemy