CCS opens £90m framework to drive government uptake of AI
Procurement agency invites bidders for dynamic purchasing system
Scotland supports SMEs’ use of tech in economic stimulus plan
Scottish Government will also provide funding for retraining
GDS annual programmes cost £5m less than expected
Cabinet Office annual report shows digital agency also brought in more than £2m in extra revenue...
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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
Is the public sector ready for the end of Windows 7?
Today marks two months until Microsoft ceases support for its decade-old operating system. PublicTechnology discovers that government is tight lipped about how widely the technology remains in use across Whitehall
Defra looks to get a grip on pig performance data
Department seeks supplier to help it bring together information
CCS sets up £166m purchasing system for IT testing
Procurement agency seeks suppliers for quality assurance vehicle