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Interoperability Through Web Services: Evaluating OGC Standards in Client Development for Spatial Data Infrastructures
White Papers The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has proposed a number of standards to that respect, with the intention of promoting interoperability through the use of services. Interoperability is one of the most important challenges related to GIS.
[November 25, 2008, 23:00]
Data watchdog steps in over IT project reviews
News The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) has been told to publish the results of its Gateway Reviews into several major IT projects. In a decision notice dated 10 June 2009, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said the OGC must comply with a...
[June 24, 2009, 10:27]
Government endorses open source
News Today, the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) published a report saying open-source software is now a genuine competitor to Microsoft in the public sector. After a running a series of pilots with government bodies, in conjunction with IBM and Sun...
[October 28, 2004, 10:19]
EDS investigations revealed
News The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) has investigated IT supplier EDS four times over the past three years, a Freedom of Information (FoI) Act request has revealed. The OGC commissioned a first investigation from accountant firm Deloitte into...
[February 16, 2005, 11:40]
EDS investigations revealed
Talkback I would like to think that the OGC did this type of analysis on all suppliers to the Government and therefore I am extremly pleased that these reports exist. It would have been useful if the OGC had made this clear.
[February 16, 2005, 15:16]
Government seeks new IT spending supremo
News Headhunters have started the search to replace the influential Peter Gershon as CEO of the government's procurement watchdog the Office of Government Commerce (OGC). Gershon took the three-year post in 2000 and has made it a key part of the OGC's...
[October 6, 2003, 14:10]
Ten government IT projects in danger
News The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) has released details of IT projects found to be most at risk across Whitehall, but is keeping the projects' identities secret. The OGC has listed 10 IT projects to receive consecutive red lights under its...
[March 1, 2005, 15:25]
UK government signs Linux deal
News The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) hopes the system will allow public sector bodies to buy products more quickly, more easily and more cost effectively. The experience gained from the development of the new system will be taken into account as...
[April 4, 2003, 15:24]
Gov't watchdog reveals early ID card concerns
News The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) has published the findings of two Gateway Reviews into the project carried out in 2003 and 2004. Technology also featured on the OGC's list of concerns: the review described "unexpected data problems" as "an...
[March 20, 2009, 15:49]
Government revamps IT-project delivery
News The move, outlined in the Office of Government Commerce's (OGC's) newly published annual report, is part of an effort to help the government generate big financial savings. The OGC is currently working on a pilot to develop this approach.
[October 31, 2008, 11:43]
Gov't eyes £10m savings from switched-off PCs
News The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) is the Treasury office responsible for driving efficiency in public-sector spending. The OGC said switching PCs off during non-work hours could cut carbon emissions by 55,723 tonnes per year across the public...
[May 23, 2008, 9:15]
Government saves £1m on Microsoft licences
News The UK Government will get a discount of more than £1m a year from Microsoft, under a deal reached between the software company and the Office of Government Commerce (OGC). The OGC announced on Thursday that the Government will see the savings as a...
[September 14, 2006, 17:15]
UK government to trial XML e-procurement system
News Whitehall procurement body the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) had initially planned to develop its own system that could be used as a model by other departments in an effort to prevent interoperability arising from a disparate collection of e...
[June 18, 2003, 15:32]
UK government trials desktop Linux
News Public spending watchdog the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) has signed a framework pricing agreement for Sun's Linux-based Java Desktop System (JDS) and a series of trials will begin in the New Year.
[December 10, 2003, 13:05]
New tools aim to improve gov't IT procurement
News The tools were released on Friday, according to a statement from the OGC, an independent oversight organisation that helps the government run IT projects. The first is a procurement 'pre-qualification tool' (PQT), which the OGC said was mainly...
[January 9, 2009, 15:53]
Public sector wins new volume discounts from Microsoft
News The software giant has an existing 'memorandum of understanding' (MoU) with central government procurement watchdog the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) which expires next year. A spokesman for the OGC would only confirm to ZDNet UK sister site...
[August 18, 2004, 10:25]
DTI to give SMEs help online
News It is hoped that the portal, jointly promoted by the Small Business Service (SBS) and Office of Government Commerce (OGC), will make it easier for business and government buyers to do business. It will build upon lessons that the OGC and SBS...
[January 11, 2005, 14:50]
Government must demand project accountability - report
News The report, issued by Parliament's inquiry into IT failures at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), recommends that the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) which monitors IT projects, is expanded and strengthened.
[July 23, 2004, 10:35]
Government attacked over document shredding
News The Office of Government Commerce (OGC), a Treasury body, has issued guidance to its gateway reviewers to shred all documents related to final gateway reviews, leaving only two copies of each, reported ComputerWeekly.
[June 5, 2007, 17:02]
Early warning failed to put NHS IT back on track
News The root of the difficulties now facing the NPfIT were laid bare in 31 Office of Government Commerce (OGC) gateway reviews published between 2002 and 2007 and released to the public for the first time on 18 June.
[June 22, 2009, 11:05]
