NHS launches cloud solutions framework worth up to £500m
NHS Shared Business Services (SBS) has launched a new cloud solutions framework valued at up to £500m and open to all public sector organisations in the UK. The agency hopes that the comparably small...
View ArticleThe biggest govtech deals of the week (9/9/19)
This is the latest instalment of an exclusive series analysing the UK’s biggest public sector tech deals. In partnership with the data analysis firm Tussell, we drill down into the most valuable...
View ArticleRevealed: GDS drafts in consultants to aid “urgent” Brexit preparations
The Government Digital Service has drafted in teams of consultants from Deloitte, Cognizant and PA Consulting to deliver projects relating to “urgent EU Exit requirements”, NS Tech can reveal. The...
View ArticleTuring Institute launches £3.5m security research centre
Some of the UK’s leading data scientists are joining forces with the security services to explore how AI and other cutting-edge technologies can bolster Britain’s defences. The initiative will be...
View ArticleWhat Cummings’ plan for GOV.UK tells us about his ambitions for Whitehall
In October 2016, Dominic Cummings published a 3,000-word blog revealing how his team had defied pollsters’ predictions to clinch a narrow victory in the EU referendum. Underpinning the success of Vote...
View ArticleThe biggest govtech deals of the week (16/9/19)
This is the latest instalment of an exclusive series analysing the UK’s biggest public sector tech deals. In partnership with the data analysis firm Tussell, we drill down into the most valuable...
View ArticleNI, Wales and Scotland are setting their own agendas for govtech
The digital chiefs of Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland all took to the stage at Sprint 19 on Thursday (20 September), where they explained that collaboration with each other, as well as with the...
View ArticleThe biggest govtech deals of the week (23/9/19)
This is the latest instalment of an exclusive series analysing the UK’s biggest public sector tech deals. In partnership with the data analysis firm Tussell, we drill down into the most valuable...
View ArticleThe biggest govtech deals of the week (29/9/19)
This is the latest instalment of an exclusive series analysing the UK’s biggest public sector tech deals. In partnership with the data analysis firm Tussell, we drill down into the most valuable...
View ArticleThe biggest govtech deals of the week (7/10/19)
This is the latest instalment of an exclusive series analysing the UK’s biggest public sector tech deals. In partnership with the data analysis firm Tussell, we drill down into the most valuable...
View ArticleThe biggest govtech deals of the week (14/10/19)
This is the latest instalment of an exclusive series analysing the UK’s biggest public sector tech deals. In partnership with the data analysis firm Tussell, we drill down into the most valuable...
View ArticleThe biggest govtech deals of the week (21/10/19)
This is the latest instalment of an exclusive series analysing the UK’s biggest public sector tech deals. In partnership with the data analysis firm Tussell, we drill down into the most valuable...
View ArticleThe biggest govtech deals of the week (28/10/19)
This is the latest instalment of an exclusive series analysing the UK’s biggest public sector tech deals. In partnership with the data analysis firm Tussell, we’ve drilled down into the most valuable...
View ArticleThe biggest govtech deals of the week (4/11/19)
This is the latest instalment of an exclusive series analysing the UK’s biggest public sector tech deals. In partnership with the data analysis firm Tussell, we drill down into the most valuable...
View ArticleThe biggest govtech deals of the week (11/11/19)
This is the latest instalment of an exclusive series analysing the UK’s biggest public sector tech deals. In partnership with the data analysis firm Tussell, we drill down into the most valuable...
View ArticleThe Ministry of Justice’s prisoner risk algorithm could program in racism
A new algorithmic tool for categorising prisoners in UK jails risks automating and embedding racism in the system, experts and advocacy groups have warned. The tool draws on data, including from the...
View ArticleThe biggest govtech deals of the week (18/11/19)
This is the latest instalment of an exclusive series analysing the UK’s biggest public sector tech deals. In partnership with the data analysis firm Tussell, we drill down into the most valuable...
View ArticleWhitehall buyers are selecting suppliers before going out to tender, says ex-CIO
Government IT buyers are treating official procurement processes as a formality and agreeing to let contracts to certain suppliers before putting them out to tender, a former Whitehall CIO has claimed....
View ArticleLondon’s Met Police plans £600m tech overhaul
London’s Metropolitan Police Service is seeking to reform how it procures technology with a new £600m spending programme. The plans, outlined in a procurement notice earlier this week, reveal that the...
View ArticleThe biggest govtech deals of the week (25/11/19)
This is the latest instalment of an exclusive series analysing the UK’s biggest public sector tech deals. In partnership with the data analysis firm Tussell, we’ve drilled down into the most valuable...
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