Home Office anti-terror comms-interception unit hires £6m project managers to address ‘lack of skill set’
NCDS is currently engaged in ‘moving towards new ways of working’ to reflect legislative changes
NHS unveils £1bn plan for primary-care digital deals including patient records and remote consultations
Potential providers invited to respond to early-engagement notice
Cost of developing emergency alerts system pegged at £25m
Minister reveals up more than £4m spent on testing, security and other support contracts
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Government signs £6m deal for storage and analytics of Grenfell inquiry data
Epiq to fulfil two-year engagement
Cognizant wins twin deals worth £150m as HMRC begins tech supplier revamp
Tax agency’s programme to ‘deliver a step change’ in its use of tech begins in earnest
Test and Trace buys £1.3m software tool to analyse PCR results data
Government signs contract with Belgian specialist firm UgenTec
Whitehall remote workers ‘don’t deserve’ same terms as office-based colleagues, minister claims
Backlash from unions after anonymous Cabinet minister vents spleen to Daily Mail
GDS signs £12m two-year AWS hosting deal
Contract offers 11% discount under vendor’s Volume Commitment Programme
DWP project to ‘address concerns’ over ageing tech in data warehouse
Department working to update hardware and software
Minister under fire for replacing phone before it was searched in procurement proceedings
Transparency campaigners question why Lord Bethell’s documents cannot be retrieved
GDS floats two £2m contracts to progress single sign-on plans
Digital agency seeks support with authentication and architecture of new government-wide system
Cabinet Office warned procurement shake-up could ‘promote competition over collaboration’
Parliamentary committee flags up risk to innovative partnerships between public bodies and third sector
NHS seeks £15m mobile contract to support vaccine rollout
Bidders sought for voice and data deal
DWP picks £4m partner for nine-month digital support contract
Department seeks a range of expertise
Legacy tech: Half of government’s £5bn annual IT spend dedicated to ‘keeping the lights on’
Report identifies continued prevalence of ageing tech as one of the major challenges facing the civil service’s digital ambitions
Natural History Museum seeks £5m platform to manage collections
Tool will form part of the museum’s new long-term strategy
Former GDS head Cunnington approved for advisory role with Canadian government
Acoba green lights unpaid position at Canada’s equivalent to the DWP
Government opens £30m competition ‘to make UK a 5G pioneer’
Contest invites ideas to expedite the development of Open RAN technologies
DHSC to spend £5m on new portal to distribute PPE
Contract awarded to Mancunian web developer CTI Digital
Test and Trace still dependent on thousands of external consultants, watchdog finds
A report from the National Audit Office has revealed that the number of consultants employed by the programme rose in the early months of 2021
Mobile connectivity to be rolled out across London tube network
Passengers will have ubiquitous 4G access by 2025
NHS Digital picks KPMG as £4m ‘cyber innovation partner’
Auditing heavyweight will help health-service agency use innovative ideas to meet organisational objectives
Takeaway app to deliver support for Covid testing
Government to work with Deliveroo to help combat new variants
Cabinet Office spends £4.7m on Microsoft licensing deal
Contract signed under terms of public sector-wide MoU