Highways agency agrees £12.8m deal to replace 20-year-old pavement database
National Highways picks TRL to implement system to supersede platform that runs on Windows Server 2003
Covid response policy unit extends data science support in £500k deal
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Unit claims commercially available data offers a better option than open-source intelligence
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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
London schools seek £50m antivirus partner
London Grid for Learning floats potential nine-year deal
DVLA takes advantage of government MoU to keep Microsoft in cloud mix
Deal signed under public sector-agreement put in place last year
HM Passport Office picks Atos for £20m five-year digital support deal
Home Office agency to work with French IT heavyweight
‘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