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Defra hands £135m hosting deal to Atos
Department’s UnITy project to disaggregate overarching deals with IBM and Capgemini continues with award of major contract to French services leviathan
Birmingham seeks market input on Windows 10 migration
Council asks for suppliers to help shape procurement approach
Emergency Services Network rollout given red-light warning in annual major projects review
The annual report from the Infrastructure and Projects Authority shows government tech...
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G-Cloud 10 launches with 650 new suppliers
A total of 3,505 firms are on the latest iteration of the framework with the government claiming more than 90% are SMEs
Paramedics to be kitted out with body-worn cameras
Emergency-care workers become the latest public servants to be equipped with the mobile recording technology
IBM picked as NHS cybersecurity partner in three-year £30m deal
Vendor chosen by NHS Digital for contract including malware analysis and pilots of emerging technologies
HMRC and Home Office among PAC chair's ‘departments of concern’ over IT project difficulties
Meg Hillier says in annual report that some suppliers are becoming ‘secretive sub-departments of government’
HMRC customs platform ready for no-deal Brexit, NAO report finds
Department has made significant progress on replacement for outgoing CHIEF system, auditors conclude
CCS splits Crown Marketplace development into individual digital portals for each sector
Procurement body cancels tender for development of existing broad test platform but reaffirms commitment to ‘original vision’ for Amazon-style online tool
‘Social value’ of bidders to be considered in award of government contracts, says Cabinet Office minister
David Lidington says Carillion collapse shows need to increase range of suppliers working with public sector
Scottish Government offers £2m of interest-free loans to help boost firms’ digital skills
Businesses given chance to make upfront tech investments with help of new fund
Boston to allow autonomous vehicle tests across city
Local company authorised to conduct trials on all roads throughout the largest city in Massachusetts
GDS Service Manual adds guidance to help departments ‘make the case for building the right thing’
New section on measuring benefits on agile projects added to document that helps government create services that comply with GDS standards
Liam Maxwell: ‘Transformation is nothing to do with tech – it is about a change of business model’
Government's national technology adviser discusses why getting digital reforms through the machinery of government may require some help from Jason Bourne
Cambridge NHS trust signs £100m IT deal
Belfast-based IT company Novosco picked for seven-year engagement
CCS starts building first Crown Marketplace portals
Supply-teaching and facilities-management frameworks will be among first to be hosted on new web store, as procurement agency also looks to refresh underlying e-sourcing technology
Loughborough University seeks £1m supercomputer
Institution issues prior information notice announcing imminent replacement of existing Hydra platform
Government seeks tech firm to trace every packet of cigarettes sold in the UK
HMRC seeks to appoint ‘ID issuer’ to comply with EU legislation and tackle £2bn annual tax gap caused by illicit tobacco trade
MPs label Home Office DBS digitisation programme ‘a masterclass in incompetence’
Failure of project to improve safeguarding checks also casts doubt on department’s capacity to successfully deliver the Emergency Services Network, report finds
Scottish SMEs swipe three in five public sector contracts
Last year thousands of IT deals were awarded to small local players, newly published figures indicate
CPS awards £5m PC-support deal to Wipro
Disaggregation work continues but CGI’s dominance is disrupted only by a fellow outsourcing giant
How digital therapy is helping NHS patients in Lincolnshire
The head of Lincolnshire's steps2change service tells PublicTechnology about its use of online CBT and how the digital therapy landscape might evolve
Home Office rolls on with £14m project to replace police number-plate database
New hub for ANPR data to be used by police forces across the country
Police chiefs look to address ‘inconsistent’ use of social media with nationwide strategy
National body looks to draw up an ‘evidence-based strategy’ for forces’ use of social platforms