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CCS merges four digital projects into one after another Crown Marketplace rethink
Quartet of planned development projects cancelled and new contract notice issued for platform housing five commercial agreements in one place
CCS smashes targets with £600m savings in FY18
Yearly accounts show increased commercial benefits for central government and wider public sector
Birmingham seeks market input on Windows 10 migration
Council asks for suppliers to help shape procurement approach
HMRC takes down 20,000 scam sites
Department celebrates big uptick in number of deactivations in past year
Brexit demands force HMRC to put digital-transformation projects on hold
Department reportedly provides list of 39 technology and other reform programmes that are being paused or delayed
Online service for paying car tax and insurance fines goes live
DVLA platform given thumbs-up after beta stage in which almost £2m was collected
DWP seeks ‘innovative solutions’ for benefit-payment disruption
Department kicks off early-engagement exercise for new system of managing problems
Work on customs system 'on track', vows HMRC chief
Chief executive of tax agency writes to MPs to update on progress of project to replace CHIEF system
DWP seeks £36m partner to develop and support child-maintenance platform
Department looks to blend in-house with external teams as support contract with existing supplier approaches conclusion
ONS extends open invite to potential new sources of data
Office for National Statistics is looking for partners in the private and public sector as it seeks to identify and make use of ‘data we don’t know about’
DWP seeks £140k digital delivery director to lead major projects
Role comes with a remit to oversee the development and rollout of a number of big-ticket products and services
Home Office picks Fujitsu to build and manage £28m biometrics platform
Tech and services titan beats trio of rivals to swipe major deal
Public sector executive pay should be linked to cybersecurity
James Wickes of Cloudview believes regulators need to take steps to sharpen senior managers’ focus on cybersecurity
DWP digital project to manage debts of up to 15 million citizens
Department plans ‘modernisation’ of its work to collect more than £1bn owed to the government each year
HMRC IT staff working on Brexit preparations could face redundancy as part of civil-service office-closure plans
Department's regional centre in Stratford will be smaller than first anticipated
Government confident Capita will not follow Carillion into disaster
Cabinet Office speaks out after Capita profit warning to assert that none of its suppliers ‘are in a comparable position to Carillion’
HMRC to migrate users to new bulk data transfer service by end of February
Details of new, souped-up digital service revealed
Digital mortgages ‘should reduce risk of fraud’, claims business secretary
Digital signature process will use GOV.UK Verify and HM Land Registry’s own digital tools
Newcastle and Northumberland agreed shared-services plan for council tax and benefits
Establishing united team of 400 workers will save each authority an estimated £300,000 a year
Oliver Dowden given ministerial responsibility for GDS
Hertsmere MP’s brief as minister for implementation also includes IPA, CCS, and cybersecurity initiatives
HMRC transformation programme a ‘precarious high-wire act, battered by the winds of Brexit’ – PAC
MPs claim department faces ‘difficult decisions’ to deliver on schemes including Making Tax Digital rollout and office relocations