Are government's major tech projects on track?
The annual report on the Government Major Projects Portfolio includes assessments of a range of big-ticket IT initiatives. We take a closer look at three experiencing differing fortunes
Rotherham plans town-centre public WiFi
Local authority seeks to engage with potential commercial partners
Report finds outsourced IT typically more efficient – but failures ‘cost taxpayers dearly’
Institute for Government says permanent secretaries should spearhead commercial efforts
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Bradford to bring digitisation to registrar’s office
Council seeks to replace paper-based system
‘Software issue’ with supplier blamed for massive NHSmail outage
Health-service workers were shut out of their accounts for large parts of Saturday
PM says UK ‘not short of options’ despite EU satellite shutout
Theresa May says government will press ahead with development of sat nav system in light of continued impasse over UK’s involvement in Galileo programme
Scottish Government to explore construction of GOV.UK Pay alternative
Government to spend £300,000 building prototype of system that could handle both inbound and outbound payments
DfE plans two-year project to fix ‘disjointed and confusing’ digital services
Supplier sought for £1.5m software-development deal
Sheffield Hallam University to roll out £500k ‘learner analytics’ platform
Institution turns to tech to help improve student retention and engagement
Major outsourcers to build failure contingency plans into government contracts
Other measures designed to ‘revolutionise government procurement’ include pilot schemes for newly outsourced services before committing to external provision
Oxford seeks £200k robotics platform
Council looks for supplier that can identify potential automation opportunities
Brexit withdrawal agreement sets 2021 deadline for UK access to 25 European IT systems
The UK will be shut out of many European networks and databases over the next few years – and will have to pay the EU for access in the meantime, under terms of Brexit deal
NHS Digital backs transformation of adult social care with £800,000 investment
Organisation awards deal to support the development of a service to help independent care providers embrace digitisation
‘Social values of suppliers’ to be emphasised in £250m care technology framework
Buying group YPO launches four-year dynamic purchasing system
Haringey, Islington, and Camden councils to ditch shared ICT service
After two years of cooperation, London boroughs will return to individual IT and digital services arrangements after concluding they have ‘diverging priorities’
Government database to track KPIs of top contracts in post-Carillion shake-up
Cabinet Office reveals wide-ranging plans to better analyse supplier finances and performance
Home Office seeks support for technology overhaul
Department is looking for a range of external suppliers to support work on its Technology Platforms for Tomorrow rollout
Cambridgeshire’s connectivity mission
The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority is investing £13.6m to boost connectivity. Gill Hitchcock reports on the challenging targets and the delivery team working with suppliers to remove barriers and pave the way for success
NHS Scotland to standardise on Office 365 and Windows 10
Potential five-year deal with Microsoft will see over 100 systems merged into one platform
Government considers wide-scale rollout of cloud-based managed print
CCS and GDS begin market engagement to examine possible use of SaaS and managed print models
Ill-conceived business cases stymieing government digital transformation, IfG report finds
Think tank claims that Treasury guidance encourages ‘unreasonable certainty’ when projects are launched
Home Office awards £8m biometrics deal to Mastek
Indian tech services firm adds application development contract to the £5m DevOps and support deal it won earlier this year
Finance regulator preps for major cloud migration
The Financial Conduct Authority is to launch a four-year framework for technology and services to support a move to cloud computing
Public Health England puts up £2m to explore ‘novel ways’ to use digital
Government agency kicks off two-year project to explore potential ‘digital interventions’