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Inside the G-Cloud: How cloud-first strategy will remake government IT as we know it

...store by the end of 2012, and for half of all new government IT spending to be on cloud services by the end of 2015... Read more

21 December, 2011 by Nick Heath

Police set up web marketplace for procurement

...hundreds of public-sector organisations, in the hope of reducing level of government IT spending. The G Cloud is part of a package of measures... Read more

26 May, 2011

G-Cloud project will save taxpayer £4bn each year

...who Suffolk said currently take home more than 60 per cent of government IT spending. It currently takes up to 77 weeks and can cost... Read more

20 October, 2010 by Nick Heath

IT spending cuts in government will 'last forever'

...sector had reduced its equivalent spend by one per cent per year. Government IT spending is unlikely to recover to pre-cut levels following the... Read more

29 September, 2010 by Nick Heath

Government pledges boost for grid technology

Grid computing is just one of the technologies the UK government says, in its latest report, should receive more support and funding Read more

17 December, 2003 by Andrew Donoghue

UK government IT spend to top £12bn

The government's investment in technology must take its social impact into consideration, warns Gartner Read more

20 October, 2003 by Andy McCue

Government must raise the bar in IT project management

Eugene Lacey: The government has an appalling record of mismanagement of major IT projects across more or less all major spending departments. It must drive a harder bargain with vendors Read more

31 July, 2002 by Eugene Lacey

US government IT spending jumps 50 per cent

Contracts worth more that $23bn were awarded during the second quarter of 2004, according to a report Read more

29 July, 2004 by Dinesh C Sharma

OFT to shake up government IT spending

The Office of Fair Trading is looking into how the government makes purchasing decisions to see if it is helping or hindering competition Read more

6 February, 2004 by Munir Kotadia

Blair sets out government IT spending plan

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25 October, 1999 by Joey Gardiner

Watchdog chief attacks gov't IT for wasting millions

The outgoing chairman of parliamentary watchdog the Public Accounts Committee has criticised government IT spending in an open letter to his successor In the letter... Read more

1 April, 2010 by Kable

Public sector IT spending climb to continue

...IT in 2009, compared to $38bn last year, predicts analyst firm IDC. Government IT spending will grow at an average 5.3 percent until 2009... Read more

3 August, 2005 by Steve Ranger

Tory election win could slow gov't IT spending

...this year's general election is likely to slow the growth in government IT spending more than a continued Labour administration, according to an analyst... Read more

23 February, 2010 by Nick Heath

Sharp rise predicted in local gov't tech spend

Local government IT spending is predicted to hit £3bn during 2007/8 — a nine... Read more

4 January, 2008 by Tim Ferguson

US government to boost IT spending

...one industry that's helping out IT companies: the federal government. US government IT spending is projected to top $63bn in 2007, providing at least... Read more

16 May, 2002 by Margaret Kane

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