FCO On Course To Deliver IT Efficiency Savings
News In its 2005-06 annual report, the FCO had forecast its ICT efficiency savings for 2006-07 at £16.4m, but delays to the project meant that up to the third quarter of 2006-07 only £1.1m of efficiencies had been achieved.
[November 20, 2007, 8:30]
HP Lands £320m Government Deal
News The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) is to spend £320m on a public private partnership (PPP) deal with HP for the upgrade of its global IT infrastructure. The FCO said the seven-year deal is based on a "joint delivery model" rather than a...
[February 18, 2005, 14:55]
Foreign And Commonwealth Office Chooses Microsoft Business Solutions - Great Plains As Its Global Financial Solution
White Papers With 230 overseas offices in 190 countries, all of which regularly consolidate their finances into the FCO's London headquarters, the FCO needed to quickly and cost-efficiently replace its obsolete finance system with a flexible, user-friendly...
[October 13, 2005, 0:00]
Foreign Office Goes With Microsoft
News An FCO spokesperson said, "We considered an open source solution but in the end decided that choosing Windows would be more cost effective. The FCO are only now upgrading from their current Windows NT4 based system.
[June 30, 2005, 18:15]
LogicaCMG Wins UK Embassy Web Deal
News As part of the five-year deal, LogicaCMG will completely replace the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's (FCO) current web platform, which handles 24 million visitors per year, such as British travellers looking for advice on the safety of countries...
[February 20, 2007, 7:41]
Watchdog Warns Foreign Office Over Data Breach
News The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) investigated the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) after Channel 4 News alerted it to the fact that personal details belonging to visa applicants were accessible by anyone visiting certain websites.
[November 14, 2007, 14:50]
Taskforce 2000: Stay At Home For A Month
News The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has produced a great deal of data and some of it is pretty awful," he said. We are disappointed with his response and urge people to look to the official bodies, FCO and Action 2000.
[September 15, 1999, 17:19]
Met Office Forecasts SOA Pay-off
News We have many customer relationships across government, with people like Defra [Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs], the FCO [Foreign and Commonwealth Office] — all sorts of different agencies of government — in the same way that we...
[July 17, 2007, 17:58]
No, Minister, The Figures Don't Add Up
Leader Same with the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, two in four years at the Department of International Development, none at the FCO, two at the Lord Chancellor's office. The Minister is peering at his computer.
[July 12, 2005, 13:45]
