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
Joint Biosecurity Centre renews engagement with Accenture
Army’s ‘unconventional warfare’ division signs £8m deal to improve data sources
Unit claims commercially available data offers a better option than open-source intelligence
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HMRC confirms leader for £300m cloud migration programme
Denise Dourado formally appointed as SRO
MHCLG spends £9m on Microsoft licensing deal
Department inks three-year contract with Phoenix Software
DHSC buys 16,000 iPhones for Test and Trace scheme
Department spends £4m on deal with Jigsaw24
DfE laptops for home-schooling found to contain malware
Government says a ‘small number’ of machines are affected by what users say is a worm that contacts Russian servers
Ageing tech has added £50m to HMRC costs during pandemic, report finds
Legacy IT has accounted for 80% of additional expense, according to PAC
Navy to deploy £25m autonomous minesweepers
Technology is designed to ‘detect and destroy’
DWP spends £5m to manage applications
Department invests in contract to deliver ‘full-stack visibility’
Arrest info on 150,000 people accidentally deleted from police database
Minister says data was wiped during ‘standard housekeeping process’
NHS Digital spends £8m on four deals to support ‘Covid-19 rapid response’
Quartet of contracts awarded last month
Government consults with broadband firms on Huawei alternatives
Ministers seek to understand current use of vendor’s kit
Government spends £87m on extra 460,000 laptops to support remote learning
Procurement documents show DfE awarded another deal to Computacenter in November
Major IT firms added to cross-government strategic supplier list
Computacenter and AWS have, in the last 12 months, both been added to the list of the government’s foremost suppliers
Cheshire signs long-term Microsoft cloud partner in £35m deal
Local authorities ink six-year contract
BT wins £18m deal to provide Buckinghamshire public sector network
Telco appointed to five-year contract
The biggest stories of 2020 – part two
PublicTechnology completes our round-up of the most read and significant stories of 2020
IPA head on working to ensure major-project success during a challenging year
Nick Smallwood discusses the key areas of focus needed for government to deliver transformation schemes
The biggest stories of 2020 – part one
PublicTechnology rounds up the most-read and significant stories we covered this year
The four (non-coronavirus) public sector tech trends that will define 2021
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Cabinet Office to blacklist underperforming outsourcers under new procurement rules
Department announces plan to punish firms that fail to deliver on contractual criteria
Scottish Government signs £400m BT deal to boost islands’ broadband
Scottish Government signs £400m BT deal to boost islands’ broadband
NAO finds Test and Trace outsourcing saw ‘substantial resources spent on staff providing minimal services’
Call-handlers were unoccupied half the time, auditors’ report found