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A total of 3,505 firms are on the latest iteration of the framework with the government claiming more than 90% are SMEs

Director general Kevin Cunnington gives speech detailing how the organisation has ‘changed the way we work with departments’

Department has made significant progress on replacement for outgoing CHIEF system, auditors conclude

Procurement body cancels tender for development of existing broad test platform but reaffirms commitment to ‘original vision’ for Amazon-style online tool

David Lidington says Carillion collapse shows need to increase range of suppliers working with public sector

Businesses given chance to make upfront tech investments with help of new fund

More data likely to be made available under government licence in due course

County council issues contract notice seeking telecoms firms to fulfil stage four of Connecting Cambridgeshire project

Open Data Institute seeks more public sector partners with which to invest its £6m spending pot

Rob Driver of techUK looks at the big questions facing the government as it approaches the halfway point of its big-ticket digital and data plan

In his foreword to Policy Exchange report on digital government, former Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude opines that ‘progress has slipped in recent years’

Last year thousands of IT deals were awarded to small local players, newly published figures indicate

Paul Maltby claims councils must first renew ageing infrastructure before realising the benefits of machine learning and automation 

Disaggregation work continues but CGI’s dominance is disrupted only by a fellow outsourcing giant

Select committee report calls for algorithms to be added to a ministerial brief, and urges departments to publicly declare where and how they use them

After ICO punishment, CPS claims new digital evidence-transfer system will mean such a breach can never happen again

Parliamentary select committees publish report revealing that fallen outsourcer sent a £160m ‘ransom note’ to the government days before its collapse

Research programme to explore how moves to the internet can be made to best effect

Outsourced deal to replace Universal Jobmatch worth almost £3m a year, award notice reveals

Civil servants urged to find reserves of ‘moral courage’ to call out irregularities 

Competition launched for IT and digital specialists to propose solutions to societal problems