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Business and industry Highlights News

New tech spend guidelines demand ‘no automatic contract extensions’ but offer ‘earned autonomy’

New version of approval process will be a tied to a wide range of additional technical and commercial guidance aligned to government’s digital roadmap, while also offering potential greater independence […]...
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3 Minutes
Business and industry Highlights News

HMRC to offer exporters three-month ‘extended migration’ window to make switch to new customs system

With scheduled deadline for moving all activity to CDS just weeks away, traders will have their own switchover window beginning when the new platform becomes available to them, PublicTechnology understands […]...
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3 Minutes
Business and industry Highlights News

EXCL: Cabinet Office works on plan to ‘centralise and standardise’ provision of laptops and phones for all civil servants

Currently about 600 individual agencies spend billions of pounds across hundreds of separate computing deals, but Whitehall’s central department is exploring models to set standards and deliver approved devices centrally […]...
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4 Minutes
Business and industry Highlights News

EXCL: Cabinet Office terminates £9m Microsoft migration contract – but still plans switch from Google to M365

Department removes vendor from Falcon programme after completion of discovery phase, and is now mulling options to proceed with delivery of scheme – which includes creation of new Official IT […]...
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4 Minutes
Business and industry Highlights Opinion

‘A complete lack of control’ – how Horizon highlights the public sector’s over-reliance on outsourcers

Recent focus on the Post Office scandal has shone light on equally long-standing problems inherent in the role of suppliers in supporting public services, according to Romy Hughes of Brightman […]...
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9 Minutes
Communities, housing and planning Features Highlights

Why digital is ‘becoming much more of a political issue’ for local government

PublicTechnology talks to leaders from Socitm about a report that reveals major challenges for authorities, offset by opportunities to ‘deliver digital outcomes in ways we’ve never conceived as possible’ before […]...
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