Consultancy signed to £6.5m deal to advise on eight-department shared-services plan
The Matrix programme – which includes Treasury, Cabinet Office and DHSC – begins engaging with potential suppliers
DWP seeks duo of commercial bigwigs to oversee major digital programmes
Department advertises roles for savvy senior managers to oversee supplier engagements
NHS picks suppliers for £200m voice recognition and digital dictation framework
A total of 12 firms feature across four lots on deal that runs for an initial term of two years...
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‘We are forcing ourselves to differentiate on quality’ – government commercial chief on social-value buying rules
Gareth Rhys Williams says new guidance will mean that ‘we don’t give everyone eight out of ten’
NHS spends £2.7m on extension to system capturing patient data from vaccine centres
Platform covers the collection of both clinical and non-clinical information
SMEs have limited trust in government procurement
An annual survey from techUK shows that significant barriers remain for smaller firms wishing to supply government, according to Henry Rex
Shredded government docs turned into toilet paper
Contract for secure disposal signed with social enterprise
Whitehall procurement pros told to look beyond lowest bid
New guidance urges buying teams to prioritise social value
DWP signs £27m Crown Hosting contract extension due to ‘security requirements’
Department claims that dedicated datacentre space remains essential
GDS recruits managers for cross-government digital identity work
Organisation advertises three senior roles for ‘One Login for Government’ project
NHS Test and Trace discloses new consultancy deals
Ernst and Young and James Harvard won just-reported contracts in March and April
Councils to pilot interactive maps for local planning
Government-funded trial with 14 English councils will aim to modernise planning processes
Defra picks £55m ‘digital delivery partner’
Department appoints firm to support delivery of key services
NHS Covid app signs £10m six-month contract extension with developer Zühlke
Supplier will provide support for technology that could be scaled to 50 million users
10 Downing Street spends £1m on Microsoft licences
Reseller Insight to fulfil Enterprise Agreement
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
Government in-house Consulting Hub to employ 60 officials
Cabinet Office to proceed with plans
GOV.UK Verify to continue until 2023 with £11m-a-year funding
Cabinet Office to offer further backing to identity-assurance tool while work takes place to develop government-wide login system
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
‘Bonkers’ and ‘baffled’ – Cameron’s increasingly incredulous texts on fintech firm
The ex-prime minister’s sent more than 70 messages to ministers and officials regarding Greensill Capital
UK players line up against US heavyweights on £750m hyperscale cloud framework
Four UK firms to be given the chance to compete with US giants
SMEs’ share of government direct spend drops in FY20 – although overall percentage rises
Departments spent an additional £1.3bn with smaller firms overall