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Cabinet Office to publish key NHS, schools data

...2011. Other key government datasets to be published include new central government IT contracts as well as crime data, which the government hopes will allow... Read more

8 July, 2011 by Sade Laja

Fired e-Borders firm gets £5m payoff

The UK Border Agency has paid millions of pounds to Raytheon to make up for losses related to its now-terminated contract to provide technology and services for the e-Borders programme Read more

15 July, 2011 by Sade Laja

One in four state IT contracts to go to SMEs, says Cable

Reduced administration will ease the way for governmental contracts with small business, according to coalition business secretary Vince Cable Read more

3 June, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Government sets out plan to woo small suppliers

...of measures to make it easier for small businesses to land government IT contracts, including caps, breaking deals up into chunks and a 'dating agency... Read more

9 March, 2012 by Tom Espiner

G-cloud to aim for 12-month contracts

...obsolete technology, the Cabinet Office has said. Previously, the government regularly signed IT contracts of five, seven or 10 years, said Liam Maxwell, director of... Read more

25 January, 2012 by Jack Clark

Government will not cancel contracts to hasten G Cloud

...The government will not cancel long-term IT contracts in order to introduce the G Cloud, according to the Cabinet... Read more

14 October, 2010 by Kable

Home Office IT director takes G-Cloud reins

...a central procurement site for public sector organisations to use when choosing IT contracts. Another aim of CloudStore was to make it easier for small... Read more

16 April, 2012

IT failings seen as threat to open data push

...according to respondents. Both the tender process and the way in which IT contracts are set up would also need to be re-examined, they... Read more

1 February, 2012 by Jo Best

G-Cloud to target 12-month contracts

...Government cloud services deals to be kept lean The target length of IT contracts will be 12 months under the G-cloud, according to the... Read more

26 January, 2012 by Jack Clark

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

...of how difficult it can be for government to extract itself from IT contracts there are few better examples than the £6.95bn NHS care... Read more

21 December, 2011 by Nick Heath

Lib Dems back IT skills office for government

...office would have responsibility for procurement policy and oversight of all major IT contracts across government, a move the paper says would promote interconnectivity. It... Read more

27 September, 2011 by Mark Say

MPs: Police IT is 'not fit for purpose'

...in England and Wales use a multiplicity of different IT systems and IT contracts.According to the report, Theresa May, the home secretary, has revealed... Read more

23 September, 2011 by Gill Hitchcock

Death of the G-Cloud was greatly exaggerated - but there's a lot of catching up to do

...introduce more competition for government IT contracts. The government has pledged to make it easier for small and... Read more

14 September, 2011 by Nick Heath

DWP asks suppliers for subcontractor lists

...companies. In 2010, business minister Vince Cable pledged that a quarter of IT contracts would go to small businesses. Since then, government efforts to engage... Read more

22 July, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Mobile fingerprint readers put into police hands

...range of projects, including Mobile ID, Ident1 and the Police National Database. It contracts out its technology needs to suppliers: for example, Cogent Systems supplies... Read more

19 July, 2011 by Tom Espiner

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