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London force to move applications and infrastructure to Microsoft public cloud environment

Flagship co-location deal given extra 48 months as CCS says reliance on services has exceeded expectations

Sources indicate that one of the civil service’s most high-profile digital and technology specialists is to take a job in the commercial sector

Company has run the MoD and Armed Forces Joint Server Farm since 2009

A total of 3,505 firms are on the latest iteration of the framework with the government claiming more than 90% are SMEs

Select committee report calls for algorithms to be added to a ministerial brief, and urges departments to publicly declare where and how they use them

Just as with outsourcing before it, cloud will not fix underlying operational complexity, according to Richard Blanford of Fordway

Socitm/Eduserv research finds that councils are increasingly shifting to a hybrid of cloud and in-house capacity - but warns that existing deals are limiting progress

Provisional timetable represents slip of one month on plans outlined at the start of March

CCS brings launch date forward by almost a year, with sources indicating Digital Outcomes deal may follow suit

Department hiring for senior development role

PublicTechnology talks to Steve Hall about the framework’s achievements so far, its ambitions for its last year, and the secret to a successful public-private joint venture  

Government figures reveal that 48% of revenue has gone to smaller firms

Providers ambivalent as CCS and GDS head into a crucial period - one that will bring a potential £1.5bn opportunity, but lots of uncertainty too

Council appoints provider to convert many documents to PDFs

NHS Business Services Authority issues RFI seeking feedback on potential benefits and challenges of moving Oracle-based system off premises

Agreement means that HMRC ‘has got out of the data business’, MPs told 

With five major IT contracts set to go live in the space of nine months, the government’s procurement arm is seeking to evolve

Warren Smith also opens up on how the launch of the Crown Marketplace will reshape central government procurement 

Department awards duo of contracts designed to help it create and deploy digital services

Kirona explains what field service is and why public sector organisations need to implement an effective field service management solution