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EU gives provisional thumbs-up to UK privacy regime
Country receives draft adequacy decision
HMRC signs £43m deals with AWS
Contracts cover provision of ‘hyperscale’ environment and related professional services
Government tapped fleet of £1,300-a-day AWS consultants to advise on contact-tracing app
Procurement documents show more than £300,000 spent across 234 billable days
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HMRC confirms leader for £300m cloud migration programme
Denise Dourado formally appointed as SRO
Inspectors to assess schools’ remote-learning set-ups
Education Scotland will examine how institutions across the country are responding to need for online learning
Major IT firms added to cross-government strategic supplier list
Computacenter and AWS have, in the last 12 months, both been added to the list of the government’s foremost suppliers
The four (non-coronavirus) public sector tech trends that will define 2021
PublicTechnology editor Sam Trendall picks out the big issues that might shape the year ahead. Apart from that one.
Home Office renegotiates £100m AWS deal
Department re-signs contract under terms of new MoU
CCS launches £750m commodity public cloud framework
Deal will allow public sector organisations to buy direct from vendors
Amazon hosting deal with GDS doubles to £6.6m a year as minister fends off questions over UK chief’s advisory role
New contract came into effect on 1 July, as minister claims government has ‘robust measures’ to mitigate against possible conflicts of interest
Defra picks £46m Microsoft licensing partner
Phoenix Software picked for three-year contract
CCS opens £90m framework to drive government uptake of AI
Procurement agency invites bidders for dynamic purchasing system
Network problems disrupt G-Cloud 12 applications
CCS and GDS work to identify affected firms
Cabinet Office cleared for £30m plan to move back-office apps to SaaS
Spend-control data shows approval for eight-figure investment in project to migrate from on-premises infrastructure to hosted environment
‘We are a British company with only British datacentres – and a commitment to pay our taxes’
UKCloud has joined the major cloud players in signing a public-sector wide agreement. The firm’s CEO Simon Hansford tells PublicTechnology why it’s important for government to have choice.
Fewer frameworks and more ministerial muscle – how government can make good on its SME agenda
The results of techUK’s annual GovTech SME Survey suggest the Digital Marketplace has made a positive impact on access to the public sector tech market but, according to Henry Rex, there are barriers still to be overcome
West Yorkshire looks to build £3m cloud-based traffic-management hub
System will bring together existing databases across three areas
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Trust Quickly Responds to COVID-19 with Citrix
Locked down and forced to close clinics, the hospital trust enabled 2,000 employees to work from home and maintain continuity of services within 48 hours
University of Cambridge delivers business continuity with sustainable IT
University of Cambridge chose Citrix Workspace to deliver an efficient, sustainable desktop, and gained work-from-home continuity when Covid-19 struck
Government agrees cross-public sector deal with Google Cloud
Vendor signs a memorandum of understanding with CCS, including preferential terms and access to technology
Test and trace scheme to keep citizens’ personal data for 20 years
PHE also reveals outsourcers Serco and Sitel will process sensitive information and claims length of retention is ‘because Covid-19 is a new disease’
Use Your Own Device is the fast track solution the UK Government needs to mobilise its staff
Stephen Twynam of Citrix argues that by adjusting Bring Your Own Device to Use Your Own Device, the sentiment shifts and the negative connotations of BYOD are alleviated
HMRC approved for £120m in contract extensions with Accenture and BT
Newly published spend-control data shows that deals were awarded to extend service provision until 2022
Citrix on Sustainability – What the future holds
In our final series Citrix on Sustainability, watch as Northern Europe Area Vice President Michelle Senecal de Fonseca joins Fred Dahlman, Associate Professor of Strategy and Sustainability at the University of Warwick Business School, Jarvis Smith, Media Owner, My Green Pod and Jeppe Juel, Managing Consultant Director, NNIT to discuss...