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Capita-led project saw Army website launched four years late and at triple the planned cost
Programme has consistently fallen well short of recruitment goals, NAO report finds
CCS launches £550m education tech framework
Up to 100 suppliers sought for five-lot contract
Some government departments spending over half their budget with outsourcers, report finds
Study from IfG finds that outsourcing accounts for a third of all Whitehall spending
Devon spends £750k on low-code platform
County council believes software can expedite the launch of new services
Eduserv to merge with Jisc
Not-for-profit organisations claim union will create ‘public sector technology powerhouse’
Bidding opens on £5bn Network Services 2 framework
Second iteration of comms and networking procurement vehicle adds three new lots and more than doubles in value
Home Office seeks £20m partner for border threat assessments
Supplier sought to support rollout of advance border control service
Government to help build local industrial strategies
BEIS to help regions cultivate plans in areas such as artificial intelligence and mobility
Criminal checks agency concludes that new IT system is ‘not suitable for further rollout’
Disclosure and Barring Service will relaunch procurement exercise after calling time on IT refresh led by Tata Consultancy Services
Is G-Cloud broken?
For all its good intentions, the government's flagship digital services framework remains hamstrung by the wrong strategy and technical challenges, believes Romy Hughes of Brightman
HMRC releases £5m fund for firms to prep for post-Brexit customs system
Government cash will be used to help businesses buy software and train staff
Government going ‘in the wrong direction’ on SME spending goals, MPs find
BEIS select committee urges the government to act ‘at the earliest opportunity’ to get back on track
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