Small boats: Home Office spends £1.5m on tech ‘to track migrants and their property’
Department signs two-year with firm specialised in barcodes and tracking
ONS seeks new data source on UK firms’ overseas owners
Statistics agency looks to establish a single unified partnership
‘Extremely concerned and disappointed’ – more councils caught up in Capita breach
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HMRC invests in £2m software tool to help manage cloud spend
Department pursues FinOps practice via commercial agreement
National Crime Agency plans digital ‘front door’ for tech firms to report child abuse
New system will enable agency and online platforms to fulfil respective obligations outlined in Online Safety Bill
Treasury financial sanctions unit buys software for investigation and digital whistleblowing
Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation invests in technology tool
EXCL: Government warned of ‘serious risk’ to services as UKCloud customers hit with sevenfold price increase
Customers that cannot pay fees seven times higher than contracted price face a race against time to migrate data from collapsed £40m public sector hosting firm. PublicTechnology investigates.
CCS deploys phishing simulation to help find security weak spots
Procurement agency invests in security tool
Rail innovation fund supports self-charging trains and suicide-prevention systems
DfT announces recipients of £5m backing
Home Office signs long-term renewal for ‘disaster victim identification’ software
Department invests £80,000 in continued use of specialist technology platform
GDS adds millions to supplier contracts as One Login project enters ‘critical time’
Value of trio of technical and support deals is raised
HMRC calls on Capgemini in direct £50m deal to address legacy tech
Department says it did not conduct competitive process as long-term supplier ‘has knowledge of’ systems in question
Government agency looks to improve deepfake detection
Defence research unit plans project to help intelligence services use AI to ‘check and validate content at scale’
NHS launches £10m framework to support web-based GP IT systems
Eight suppliers picked for new procurement vehicle that aims to deliver cloud platforms that can accessed through any device
MoJ signs £20m partner for ‘product enhancement’ of controversial Common Platform system
IT firm will help transition system – labelled ‘unworkable’ by critics – into ‘business-as-usual’ operations
Public spending watchdog cites need for ‘radical action’ on data analytics
Audit body points to data challenges stemming from both leaders and the wider workforce
Passport Office seeks £7.5m IT partner for final stages of troubled transformation scheme
Programme is getting closer to completion – but years behind schedule and at nearly treble originally slated cost
National Situation Centre taps mobile network data for ‘insights on behaviours of millions of people’
Cabinet Office-based facility signs £800k deal with mobile network operator
ONS seeks £8m partner to help increase use of digital surveys
Statistics agency looks to build on the rollout of the UK’s first-ever digital census last year
Government does ‘not expect public-service disruption’ over UKCloud insolvency
Public sector hosting provider has suspended itself from frameworks after being placed in compulsory liquidation
Tourism agency invests in software tool to boost work with online influencers
Technology will help track and monitor content posted by social media users
Spend controls and patchy engagement hampering efforts to boost civil service commercial skills, according to Whitehall chief
Ongoing ‘competing priorities’ still get in the way of long-term work to boost buying savvy, says Alex Chisholm
Bank of England signs deal with £45m IT partner
Tech company will provide central bank with a range of hardware, software and services
HMRC property-valuation unit invests in web-mapping tool for ‘historical aerial photographs’
Agency that helps set council tax signs 18-month deal with specialist data firm