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DWP claims £46m tech savings in FY22
Department’s annual accounts claim move to cloud will help reduce costs
GDS to close PaaS public-sector hosting platform
Service to be decommissioned by the end of 2023 while a review of future options will be...
EXCL: Wall of silence surrounds plan for nationwide collection of citizens’ internet records
Online notice reveals controversial trials are to be expanded into a national service – about...
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The time is now for private network adoption
New forms of infrastructure can help improve public services, according to Sophie James of techUK
Home Office keeps 250 sets of applications in AWS or Azure
Minister reveals department does not currently use Google Cloud Platform
HMRC signs £1.7m partner to expand and improve ‘bulk data exploitation’ platform
Cloud-based system allows users to access and analyse large amounts of unstructured data held by tax department
HMRC picks IBM for £11m project to exit Fujitsu datacentres by June 2022 deadline
Vendor will provide project and delivery managers across 15-month engagement with tax department
Home Office signs £70m Capgemini deal to support infrastructure transformation
Contract covers the provision of support and migration services
Year in review: How technology defined 2021’s biggest stories
Digital and data once again had a starring role in supporting – and, occasionally, hampering – government’s work this year. PublicTechnology looks back at the most significant events.
HMRC achieves ‘significant improvement’ in IT uptime in FY21
Annual accounts for in-house IT company show number of ‘red days’ fell by a third, while coronavirus crisis saw costs rise more than £9m
Cabinet Office spends £6m on upgraded Google Workspace deal
Two-year contract provides access to a range of software tools
Highways agency agrees £12.8m deal to replace 20-year-old pavement database
National Highways picks TRL to implement system to supersede platform that runs on Windows Server 2003
HMRC signs £5m cloud-migration deal with Microsoft
Deal covers cloud platforms, consultancy, and cyber tools
The public sector’s path to becoming Consciously Hybrid
Experts from HPE outline why effective digital transformation requires a ‘Consciously Hybrid’ approach to cloud - and how best to achieve this
Home Office signs £5m deal for ‘cloud landing zones’
Department looks to migration
Test and Trace spends £6.7m on Microsoft licences
Programme signs contract for cloud products
Cognizant wins twin deals worth £150m as HMRC begins tech supplier revamp
Tax agency’s programme to ‘deliver a step change’ in its use of tech begins in earnest
Cabinet Office spends £4.7m on Microsoft licensing deal
Contract signed under terms of public sector-wide MoU
DVLA takes advantage of government MoU to keep Microsoft in cloud mix
Deal signed under public sector-agreement put in place last year
"The inflection point is here": how Covid is driving digital transformation in health
It’s been one of the most challenging years for healthcare providers, but Salesforce sees lasting change from accelerated digital transformation
Test and Trace signs £9m one-year AWS deal
Contract – which is not signed under the terms of the public sector-wide OGVA – covers provision of cloud services
The largest ever UK public sector cloud transformation unlocks cost savings and innovation
Cloud-based applications can provide ways for agencies and departments to innovate and operate in new ways, as the past year has highlighted they must, writes Oracle
EXCL: Government agreement offers public sector up to 20% discount on AWS hosting
PublicTechnology can reveal the terms of a public sector-wide MoU, under which more than contracts worth more than £300m have already been awarded