The specialist digital unit has put in a place two deals this year to support the creation of a platform to provide a single source of info on Whitehall consumption […]...
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Trade department signs £3.5m deals to boost tech maturity and identify vulnerabilities
DBT has put in place two agreements with major reseller SCC intended to provide greater rigour to assessing its current tech estate and picking out potential security risks going forward […]...
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HM Land Registry seeks £72m digital and data partners to deliver ‘radical, permanent changes’
The government department responsible for overseeing housebuying and administering the national register of millions of property titles is engaged in a major transformation agenda and wishes to identify tech providers […]...
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HMRC Transformation Roadmap: New citizen services, more revenue and ‘cultural change’ across department
PublicTechnology explores the tax agency’s ambitious vision for the coming years, including ‘automating tax where possible’, investing in new analytics technology to help combat fraud, and upgrading ageing IT infrastructure […]...
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HMRC pegs IT contract spending at £1.6bn a year and targets move away from ‘legacy service integrators’
Annual report outlines efforts to open up procurement to more providers, to support objective to ‘have fewer technologies providing our IT platforms, so we can scale them up more easily’ […]...
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Improved analytics could save Whitehall billions in fraud losses, NAO report finds
Auditors warn that there is currently ‘no clear plan’ to realise the potential of data to eat into the current tally of up to £80bn lost to fraud each year […]...
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HMRC seeks ‘novel and innovative solutions’ to help close £50bn tax gap
The department has outlined its intent to put in place a £6m commercial engagement with the aim of hearing from possible suppliers of new technology or techniques for data analysis […]...
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Departments told to prep for new digital finance data system
HM Treasury is preparing to implement a new digital system that is intended to support a better centralised understanding of spending in real time, while lessening compliance burdens on agencies […]...
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Spending Review: How are departments planning to use tech to save billions?
PublicTechnology dives into the detail of HM Treasury’s recently published efficiency plans document This month’s Spending Review saw government departments committing to combined annual efficiency savings of £13.8bn by 2028-29, […]...
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UPDATED: Government stresses ‘limited time and strict terms’ as HMRC signs £220m Fujitsu contingency extension
As department retains supplier on datacentre deal, government initially stated there was a wider drive to ‘remove Fujitsu from government systems’, but has now indicated this applies only to HMRC […]...
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