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Small boats: Home Office spends £1.5m on tech ‘to track migrants and their property’
Department signs two-year with firm specialised in barcodes and tracking
ONS seeks new data source on UK firms’ overseas owners
Statistics agency looks to establish a single unified partnership
‘Extremely concerned and disappointed’ – more councils caught up in Capita breach
Authorities have complained about the lack of time taken to be notified by IT firm and...
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Courts service unveils £24m plan to expand video hearings system nationwide
HMCTS reveals remote processes have become an ‘integral part’ of the justice system following the coronavirus crisis
Home Office starts search for £1bn ESN partner and system to measure ‘coverage and quality’ of supplier networks
Department opens bidding for firm to replace Motorola in delivering core user services
Scottish Government retains suppliers on £200m framework for IT temps
Four firms feature on four-year deal
Full deployment of Common Platform pushed back another year to 2025
Courts service leader tells MPs that ‘core functionality’ will be in place in the next year
Rochford District Council pins data breach on Capita’s ‘unsafe storage’
Authority claims it is taking ‘swift and decisive action’ in response to incident it claims affected several councils
Motorola removed from government strategic suppliers list following ESN exit
Company claims excision from roster of Whitehall's most significant commercial partners is a ‘routine update’
NHS spends £8m on one-month extensions for major Microsoft deals
Health service puts in place short-term arrangements with incumbent reseller suppliers
Home Office biometrics scheme delays delivery date and faces cost ‘pressures’
Updated assessment reveals £27m in additional spending and possibility that department ‘will consider reduced programme scope’
Public-health agency to continue using mobile-network data to track population movement
UKHSA signs deals with BT and O2 to provide insights into ‘behavioural changes post-pandemic’
Home Office signs £72m deal to develop and support all department’s apps
Atos wins three-year contract to assist with Shared Application Service
Emergency Services Network delivery date set to 2029
Troubled programme began work in 2015 and is now expected to complete a full decade behind original schedule
Only two firms bid for £5m deal to support Emergency Alerts
Minister reveals small number of interested parties in deal to deliver, design and support nationwide service
Whitehall shared-services implementation requires funding and focus, MPs warn
Public Accounts Committee warns that lack of support could imperil delivery
Defra taps £40k consultancy to create crisis-response plan
Department seeks new business continuity templates and definitions for issues including strikes, cyberattacks and UK-wide power cuts
CCS defends Digital Marketplace closure and pledges to ‘reinstate transparency’
Suppliers and former officials have lamented the decision but procurement agency claims outgoing platform could no longer ‘accommodate growing demands’
Cabinet Office invests in ‘honeypot’ cyber traps to help protect network
Department invests in technology from specialist start-up
Cabinet Office invests £140k in digital platform for officials to anonymously report bullying
Department invests in browser-based tool that can be accessed via intranet
HMRC ramps up crypto crime capabilities with £850k software tool
Tax agency acquires software to help ‘keep pace with new developments’
Capita admits possible compromise of customer data during cyberattack
Attackers had unauthorised access for nine days, outsourcing firm announces
DWP doubles value of Microsoft licensing arrangement with £250m deal
Department retains IT reseller Softcat as provider of core software systems
EXCL: Cabinet Office launches £12m project to move all data and users from Google to Microsoft
Department to develop single internal infrastructure that will replace two incumbent platforms