Student Loans Company hunts ‘strategic partners’ for £200m-plus transformation of ageing IT estate
Arm’s-length body seeks to appoint a range of providers across various procurement exercises
NHSX to review patients’ online channels
National organisation to consider efficacy of existing portals and apps
Home Office begins work on modern slavery statement service
Department awards £500k contract for design of digital tool
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Leeds seeks partner to build ‘community cloud’ for use across public sector
Local authority is working with NHS bodies to construct shared infrastructure
Home Office pledges to clear two-year backlog of spend control data
Department has missed seven consecutive quarters but tells PublicTechnology it will ‘work with the Cabinet Office’ to get back on track
North Lanarkshire’s plan for a future-proof council
With ambitious plans for digital infrastructure, online services, and cloud migration, one local authority has a busy year ahead. Gill Hitchcock reports.
Alder Hey NHS Trust looks to boost use of ‘innovative’ tech
Children’s hospital to set up dynamic purchasing system for use across NHS
New finance IT system caused spike in Home Office’s late payments
In the 12 months to the end of September, the department incurred potential interest of £2.66m – an increase of more than £2m than the preceding 12-month period
CCS plans £300k tune-up of Whitehall travel-booking site
Supplier sought to expand online platform to new agreements
TfL looks to implement real-time data on capital car journeys
Transport authority seeks supplier that can provide live map of information on journey times
University of Nottingham to launch £7m ‘digital engagement’ programme
Institution looks to tech to revamp the way it recruits students
Transparency concerns raised over NHS deal with Amazon Alexa
Privacy International criticises decision to redact details of the health service’s agreement with the smart assistant
Manchester City Council seeks £100k director of IT
Post comes with remit to spearhead tech transformation and manage £55m planned investment
Largest NHS trust preps £10m deal to modernise virtual desktops
Barts Health to launch procurement for supplier to host and maintain VDI environment
Powys gets £1m backing for digital transformation
County council gets Welsh Government funding to implement tech
MoD awards secretive million-pound photocopying deal
Canon wins contract for ‘provision of services to REDACTED’
Durham shops for £10m fibre network
County council publishes three-lot framework tender
Government progresses plan to use robots for Sellafield clean-up
Two proposals in the running for decommissioning project
University of Sheffield to install 3D bioprinter
Institution shops for machine that could work with ‘technological and biological’ matter
Government launches £350m electronics and office supplies framework
CCS issues contract notice for three-lot deal offering direct-award and further-competition options
Computacenter grabs £27m TfL IT service desk deal
IT reseller wins four-year contract
NHS to build ‘online sharing and collaboration’ platform for health and social care sector
Two-year project to cost up to £1.8m
‘Policy mandarins don’t get that engaged in reform’ – Francis Maude
In an interview with the Civil Service World podcast, the former Cabinet Office minister discusses frustrations of attempts to push through digital and procurement transformation
‘There is a strong suspicion that optimism is designed to get project approval’
NAO head claims many government programmes are dogged by unrealistic costings and creeping scope