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Government calls for IT suppliers to embrace SMEs

...Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude has said he wants government's major IT suppliers to work with small to medium-sized enterprises, mutuals and joint... Read more

3 December, 2010 by Kable

Government meets prime suppliers over IT cost cutting

...A group of prime government IT suppliers has met Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude to discuss plans for... Read more

9 July, 2010 by Kable

IBM strikes deal with Cabinet Office on service costs

The company is the latest in a series of IT suppliers to reach an agreement on delivering efficiencies in the services it... Read more

24 November, 2010 by Kable

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

...contracts with IT suppliers past 2015 - the date when government wants half of all new... Read more

21 December, 2011 by Nick Heath

Oracle deal promises £75m in savings for government

...signed a new contract with Oracle, one of the government's largest IT suppliers, which it says will generate savings of more than £75m by... Read more

28 March, 2012 by Sade Laja

Government sets out plan to woo small suppliers

...plans to begin "chunking-up contracts into modules of a scale that IT suppliers can aim for", Maude told ZDNet UK. The government is on... Read more

9 March, 2012 by Tom Espiner

G-Cloud app store gives small businesses a lift

...G-Cloud app store, CloudStore, where public-sector bodies can shop for IT suppliers. CloudStore opened on Sunday, with services from 257 companies offered to... Read more

20 February, 2012 by Jack Clark

DWP to run open-source trials

...source software. A year ago Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude told major IT suppliers to rethink their approach to projects, making them smaller and using... Read more

7 December, 2011 by Gill Hitchcock

The play never stops: Why one second of downtime can ruin Uefa's game

...s inhouse tech team has been working to make sure that its IT suppliers are able to Read more

19 October, 2011 by Nick Heath

MPs: Government IT is a 'recipe for rip-offs'

...a tiny number of large businesses essentially rotate their status as primary IT suppliers, creating a de facto cartel," Collins-White said in written evidence... Read more

28 July, 2011 by Tom Espiner

DWP asks suppliers for subcontractor lists

...efforts to work with more SMEs. The department is in discussions with IT suppliers about subcontractor numbers, a DWP spokeswoman said on Friday. "The DWP... Read more

22 July, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Government IT strategy lacks detail, report says

...alone, and relies on its principles being adopted across government, including its IT suppliers. On the ERG, the report says that the group has only... Read more

6 July, 2011 by Gill Hitchcock

'Unrealistic' IT deadlines threaten universal credit plan

...of which were leaked to The Observer, reveals serious concerns among government IT suppliers over whether the deadlines can be met. It also says that... Read more

20 June, 2011 by Staff

CIO tips on how to survive losing your budget

...IT department break even. Costly clauses are being removed from contracts with IT suppliers, tech investments are being delayed and staff are being let go... Read more

1 June, 2011 by Nick Heath

Mahindra Satyam CEO on the road to recovery

...and regain Satyam's position as one of India's top five IT suppliers. Wipro, for example, recorded a net income of 13.19 billion... Read more

11 April, 2011 by Nick Heath

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