PUBLIC SECTOR Burnham's spanner in the works leaves UK government tech scattered across Whitehall Splitting up responsibility for digital transformation and procurement while AI gets a seat at Cabinet risks incoherency
PUBLIC SECTOR Home Office hands £28M to immigration IT incumbents after procurement challenge Continuity support required after £336 million replacement deal delayed by more than a year
legal Even HP resellers thought the price of toner and ink was too high – so HP India facilitated an illegal cartel Regulator fines PC and printer giant for rigged tender bids and collusion
PUBLIC SECTOR Transport for London keeps Capita behind wheel of road charging ops in £912M extension Replacement deal now expected in mid-2029 as body says safe transition will take at least five years
Databases NHS patients can't opt out of Palantir's data platform – but their hospital can Minister says trusts can go it alone on procurement as Parliament mulls February 2027 FDP contract renewal
AI and ml Met Police boss threatens to cut 700 frontline jobs after Palantir deal blocked Commissioner Mark Rowley says automation savings are now 'at risk'
Public Sector London cops post £300M tech shopping list after Palantir contract blocked Mayor's office says force only engaged with one supplier before deputy refused to approve deal worth up to £50M
Public Sector Smaller suppliers invited to pitch for £2.9B UK defense tech framework Government Commercial Agency wants DIPS 2 to reach beyond MoD buyers and the usual big-name suppliers
Public Sector UK wants fresh fingerprints on £300M biometrics platform Home Office probes supplier interest as core police and immigration system heads for support shake-up
Public Sector UK to rethink tech buying after Palantir contracts Government looks for sovereign tech as NHS deal nears break clause
Public Sector Watchdog boss calls Capita's £370M DWP win 'extraordinary' amid pension portal dumpster fire PAC chair asks Cabinet Office if anyone bothered telling dept about the shambles before handing over the keys
Public Sector Palantir’s lethal AI weaponry deployed to find chairs for US government staff As Department of Agriculture employees return to the office, it needs ‘real-time analytics to optimize employee seat assignments’
Databases Capita's £370M Whitehall outsourcing deal challenged as 'abnormally low' Rival bidder Sopra Steria launched legal claim over DWP procurement
Public Sector UK tax collector plans £2B tech binge as legacy systems refuse to die AWS and Capgemini loom large in HMRC's procurement pipeline
Public Sector UK border tech budget swells by £100M as Home Office targets small boat crossings Drone, satellite, and other data combined to monitor unwanted vessels
Public Sector UK tech minister vows more whole-government megadeals after £9B Microsoft pact Kendall says Whitehall will use bulk buying to squeeze better value from cloud giants
Supercomputing Month UK lines up £250M cloud procurement to feed its growing AI research appetite Plan would link commercial capacity with Britain's flagship supercomputers
Public Sector Digital overhaul at UK's NS&I bank is £1.3B over budget and 4 years late Watchdog says program buckled under procurement failures and technical complexity
Public Sector UK government inflates G-Cloud framework to £14B Procurement delays and lock-in fears see framework balloon in size and scope
On-Prem Marks & Spencer swaps out TCS for fresh helpdesk deal Move follows months-long procurement process as retailer refreshes parts of its IT support setup
Public Sector UK rethinks offshoring ban for £8M online procurement system Cabinet Office signals it might let supplier ship work abroad after 'unforeseeable' event
Public Sector UK Home Office opens wallet for £60M automated number plate project Department eyes new app to tap national ANPR data for live alerts, searches, and integrations
Public Sector 'Money-saving' UK procurement platform racks up monster tab Projected £1.5M running costs balloon to £12M under new contracts
Public Sector Home Office delays £816M English test contract despite market engagement Government wants to assess would-be immigrants' language skills remotely
Personal Tech So much for the paperless office: UK government inks £900M deal for printers etc. Four-year framework hands Canon and pals a license to print money
Public Sector Fujitsu under fire for bidding on UK public sector deals despite Horizon scandal vow Millions continued to flow after Japanese supplier said it would step back
Public Sector UK Home Office hikes tech consultant spend to £350M despite pledge to cut costs Warnings of internal skills shortages fail to quell appetite for hand-holding
Public Sector Uncle Sam launches AI sandbox for government use, says it won't be around for long GSA AI chief says market can do better but the feds needed a kickstart
Public Sector Uncle Sam asks industry if it has AI that'll make procurement suck less Plan includes chatbots 'with full user context and data access' – what could go wrong?
Software The biggest challenges in software supply chains in 2025 Open source, supply chains, AI, and more are keeping IT pros up at night
Public Sector AWS offers $1B credit to slash Uncle Sam's cloud bills - and lock in as a provider until at least 2028 What, you don't expect them to keep using Microsoft with its Chinese cloud admins, do you?
Public Sector Faced with £40B budget hole, UK public sector commits £9B to Microsoft Government plans £1.9B annual spending during five-year MoU
Public Sector Capgemini wins £107M HMRC extension – no competition needed Deal for legacy applications support reaches £322M as they continue to be decommissioned
Public Sector UK buys time with £1.65B extension to G-Cloud framework Replacement deal not ready, so old one gets 6 more months and budget bump
Public Sector Fujitsu sorry for Post Office horror – but still cashing big UK govt checks Non-competitive £220M datacenter deal with tax collector tops £510M pile of public money
Public Sector UK tech minister negotiated nothing with Google. He may get even less than that Peter Kyle promised alternative to 'ball and chain' of legacy systems, but he has no plan and little power
Public Sector Brit politicians question Fujitsu's continued role in public sector contracts Despite Horizon scandal promises to end bidding, bids keep popping up
Databases UK MoD pauses £92M Oracle Fusion contract amid project governance review Last of Whitehall-wide ERP overhaul will not kick off until next year
Public Sector Post Office finally throttles delayed in-house EPOS project Troubled state biz tenders £410M software and DC-to-cloud migration plan, goodbye to Fujitsu on the Horizon
Public Sector After leaving citizens on hold for 798 years, UK tax authority has £1B for CRM upgrade HMRC kicks off procurement to modernize customer service after scathing reports
Public Sector Fujitsu promised to sit out UK deals ... then Northern Ireland called with £125M Despite Horizon fallout, Japanese supplier continues to win public sector work
Public Sector Legacy tech is the gift that keeps billing for UK's tax collector £5.2B more thrown at the never-ending quest to modernize HMRC
Public Sector Capita's Northern Ireland school IT deal swells to over half a billion after Fujitsu exit Education authority still searching for an alternative after 13 years
Public Sector UK government to open £16B IT services competition after 6-month delay Technology Services 4 framework expands by £4B, with procurement to begin this week
PaaS + IaaS UK government's cloud strategy: Pay more, get less, blame vendor lock-in? Home Office's £450M deal with AWS raises questions over competition and aligning department requirements
Databases Mega council officers had no idea what they were buying ahead of Oracle fiasco Lack of skills left Birmingham officials unable to challenge suppliers and with a system incapable of managing finances
Software UK tax authority eyes £880M overhaul for Northern Ireland trade services Cost of post-Brexit arrangements revealed as HMRC looks at options following Fujitsu contract
Databases UK electrical utility seeks partner for £81M SAP overhaul as support deadline closes in Integrations with third-party software await chosen provider
Applications Already three years late, NHS finance system replacement delayed again Project to swap out Oracle E-Business Suite gets another red rating from projects watchdog
Public Sector Why does the UK keep getting beaten up by IT suppliers? Tech and commercial functions need to get in shape for the challenges ahead
Personal Tech UK government tech procurement lacks understanding, says watchdog NAO report highlights £3B cost overruns and 29 years of cumulative delays in IT projects
Public Sector Four plead guilty in US government tech procurement fraud case Scheme involving bribes, bid rigging and insider info may have cost US taxpayers $1.3M
Software £3.8B later, old tech supplier flames still burning for HMRC Deal supposed to end in 2017 continues to haunt tax collector procurement
Software Smile! UK cops spend tens of millions on live facial recognition tech Labour government keen, though critics paint it as a severe threat to privacy
Software NHS drops another billion on tech in the hope of finally going digital Framework promised last year set to reach value of up to £2.5B after chat with supply chain
Public Sector With billions in UK govt IT contracts about to expire, get the next vendors to act right Poor performers get renewals, new small outfits discouraged from bidding, say researchers
Public Sector UK pensions department's project to unite government ERP systems comes to £1.9B Four branches attempt to streamline HR and business processes
Public Sector NHS dangles £1.5B carrot to be outfitted with everything from PCs to printers Gadget gladiators line up to supply world's largest healthcare org
Public Sector UK government can't kick consultancy habit despite promises Spending returns to pandemic levels as tech deals make up bulk of framework agreements
Databases City council faces £216.5M loss over Oracle system debacle Europe's largest local authority canceled expected savings baked into financial plans
Public Sector UK.gov to chuck up to £5B to gang of back office software vendors Framework deal set to run until 2029 as central govt transitions to new ERP SaaS model
Public Sector Britain's Ministry of Defence accused of wasting £174M on 'external advice' Morpheus comms system online by 2025? You must be dreaming
Public Sector US senators propose guardrails for government AI purchases and operations Bill proposes appointment of chief AI officers, privacy safeguards, and lots of testing
Public Sector UK government faces £17.5M shortfall from UKCloud liquidation Cabinet Office letter also reveals department lost money on unfinished database project
PaaS + IaaS UK county council misses deadline for £7.3M RISE with SAP system launch Gloucestershire reluctant to set new date in S/4HANA migration saga
Public Sector Local councils struggle with ill-fitting software despite spending billions with suppliers Even when tech crew gets the tweaks approved, vendor lead times are bonkers, says report
Public Sector UK government sets sights on £8B tech procurement overhaul Mega framework set to replace earlier deals coming to an end next year
Software Fujitsu set to be preferred bidder in UK digital ID scheme Selection comes despite Japanese supplier's role in Post Office scandal
Software Bank's struggle to replace Atos threw system back to dark ages Costly project to switch supplier likely to continue into 2025, says watchdog
PaaS + IaaS Multiple billions up for grabs as UK government launches cloud services tenders Two major procurement initiatives aim to beef up public sector tech
Public Sector Fujitsu will not bid for UK.gov business until Post Office inquiry closes Pause comes after controversial supplier wins another 9-figure deal paid for by taxpayers
Public Sector Why do IT projects like the UK's scandal-hit Post Office Horizon end in disaster? Lack of skills, funding, and scrutiny – pick three
Software Former Post Office boss returns CBE to sender over computer system scandal Minister says Fujitsu could be 'on the hook' for compensation pending inquiry
Software Fujitsu wins flood contract extension despite starring in TV drama about its failures Deal expanded from £4.5M to £19.5M over 7 years as critics point to shortcomings
Public Sector Brit pensions scheme flushed £74M when it walked from Atos deal Annual report reveals 'challenges' around 'commercial and risk appetite'
Public Sector UK procurement is too glacial to bring AI into defense, MPs told Projects take so long that tech is out of date before it enters service, industry says
Applications UK courts award CGI £60M deal to keep ancient tech alive Legacy – sorry 'heritage' – support contract includes case managements systems
Off-Prem Guess what? Ask clouds to behave like old-school vendors, they will – and you lose Same salespeople and same lock-in, which may actually help this time
On-Prem Kyndryl bags short-lived HMRC mainframe contract Tax collector's DALAS waits in wings to tackle humongous legacy estate
PaaS + IaaS Out with Tech Services 3 and in with Tech Services 4 – UK govt's £12B shopping spree Could be among the first to come under new procurement rules next year
Databases NHS watchdog expresses vendor lock-in concerns over Federated Data Platform deal Quango must show Palantir does not have unfair advantage in procurement
PaaS + IaaS Southern Water to drink up tech deals worth up to £358M Wide-ranging procurements hint at prospect of SAP ERP system replacement
On-Prem UK health service has £1.5B to put toward Digital Workplace Solutions 2: Electric Boogaloo Four-year deal set to start next summer
Networks 'There has never been a realistic plan' for UK's £11B Emergency Services Network Commercial and technical risks yet to be addressed by Home Office, spending watchdog says
Databases UK government's newest department to lead mega ERP procurement Tender designed to bring together 48k users running Oracle, Microsoft and more into 1 SaaS system
PaaS + IaaS Mega-data platform worth half a billion will suck in info from family doctors UK officials argue NHS patient details will only be available locally
Networks UK launches SKYNET – not a doomsday plot, just shopping for improved satellite comms They really need to start branding these things better
Public Sector Tiny Brit tech firms win spots on £1.84B public sector contract. Kidding, it's the usual suspects Collective deal to cover software needs for every rung of government
On-Prem UK govt adds £4B to value of delayed tech procurement Hardware, software, kitchen sink: it's all in there
Government Tech Week Government tech spending in England more than doubles in five years Researchers see pandemic boom in computer-related tech spend
Databases French JV wins contract to upgrade NHS Oracle finance system After four years of talks, competition goes to incumbent supplier
Personal Tech FAA asks for vendor feedback on $10b tech contract But keen to avoid any mf bespoke software on the mf planes (and other hardware)
Software UK pins hopes on 'latest technology' to whittle down massive National Health Service waiting lists
PaaS + IaaS Microsoft wins JEDI contract, Amazon complains. Amazon wins NSA contract, watchdog says Microsoft right to moan
Off-Prem No return of the JEDI: Supreme Court declines to hear Oracle's challenge to now-dead cloud deal
Off-Prem Yet another Big Tech exec heads to central government: This time IBMer Dan Bailey in 6-month stint
PaaS + IaaS JEDI contract might be no more, but case should live on, says Oracle: DoD only wants Amazon, Microsoft for new cloud deal
Security Surveillance tech company sues Police Digital Service over 'flawed' scoring of bids on £18m contract
Channel UK Home Office tenders £5m for a supplier to help it greenlight IT projects. Yes, you read that correctly
On-Prem 12 tech merchants win slices of £504m NHS framework without competition because everything is terrible
SaaS UK government's cloud ERP strategy seems to be in stasis following top civil servant's move to COVID-19 task force
On-Prem UK West Midlands town finds five-year HR system deal is only offer on the table in pandemic-stricken procurement
SaaS Workday targets 'procurement software' market after bumper Q2, but boss man is big on ambition, thin on detail
Software Accenture scores £20m contract extension with UK pensions department: Competition? We've heard of it
Networks London cops seeking £600m mega IT contract to knock 'towers' sprawl into 'one throat to choke'
Legal Will someone think of the taxpayer? UK.gov needs to stop burning billions on shoddy procurement, says Reform
On-Prem Yorkshire public sector procurement body YPO opens £400m framework for data centres, cloud hosting and security
Software Tech biz boss slipped Detroit's IT chief bungs in restaurant bathrooms to bag software deals, prosecutors claim
