Brit pensions scheme flushed £74M when it walked from Atos deal Annual report reveals 'challenges' around 'commercial and risk appetite' Public Sector03 Nov 2023 | 12
UK procurement is too glacial to bring AI into defense, MPs told Projects take so long that tech is out of date before it enters service, industry says Public Sector25 Sep 2023 | 17
UK courts award CGI £60M deal to keep ancient tech alive Legacy – sorry 'heritage' – support contract includes case managements systems Applications19 Sep 2023 | 4
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 Cloud Infrastructure Week13 Sep 2023 | 7
Kyndryl bags short-lived HMRC mainframe contract Tax collector's DALAS waits in wings to tackle humongous legacy estate On-Prem08 Sep 2023 | 14
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 PaaS + IaaS04 Sep 2023 | 7
NHS watchdog expresses vendor lock-in concerns over Federated Data Platform deal Quango must show Palantir does not have unfair advantage in procurement Databases29 Aug 2023 | 8
Southern Water to drink up tech deals worth up to £358M Wide-ranging procurements hint at prospect of SAP ERP system replacement PaaS + IaaS29 Aug 2023 | 26
UK health service has £1.5B to put toward Digital Workplace Solutions 2: Electric Boogaloo Four-year deal set to start next summer On-Prem24 Aug 2023 | 11
'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 Networks14 Jul 2023 | 56
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 Databases07 Jul 2023 | 19
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 PaaS + IaaS23 Jun 2023 | 30
UK launches SKYNET – not a doomsday plot, just shopping for improved satellite comms They really need to start branding these things better Networks05 Jun 2023 | 14
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 Public Sector12 Apr 2023 | 23
UK govt adds £4B to value of delayed tech procurement Hardware, software, kitchen sink: it's all in there On-Prem13 Mar 2023 | 3
Government tech spending in England more than doubles in five years Researchers see pandemic boom in computer-related tech spend Government Tech Week11 Jan 2023 | 6
French JV wins contract to upgrade NHS Oracle finance system After four years of talks, competition goes to incumbent supplier Databases15 Dec 2022 | 1
FAA asks for vendor feedback on $10b tech contract But keen to avoid any mf bespoke software on the mf planes (and other hardware) Personal Tech22 Nov 2022 | 4
UK.gov finds billions in cash for big data contracts Project two years in the making aims to improve public services... or what's left of them Databases26 Oct 2022 | 20
UK govt launches multibillion procurement for tax agency application services First chunk of mega-frameworks go to market Applications11 Oct 2022 | 5
Japanese sushi chain boss resigns amid accusation of improper data access Data theft stinks, says victim. Alleged perp claims he's getting a raw deal Cyber-crime04 Oct 2022 | 15
Bank of England seeks partner to support Oracle Cloud implementation After venturing into HCM, UK's central bank embarks on finance and procurement journey with Big Red Applications22 Sep 2022 | 6
NHS data platform procurement delayed for a second time Questions remain over Palantir's influence after consultancy role for former NHS England director revealed Databases15 Sep 2022 | 29
UK's NHS goes to market for $2b HR and payroll system Plans afoot to replace Oracle EBS/AIX system used by 1.8 million staff dating from 2008 PaaS + IaaS25 Aug 2022 | 24
$50m+ contract for crime-fighting IT system won by Fujitsu after no one else bid Japanese giant will stop making mainframes four years later Systems23 Aug 2022 | 28
UK government lines up billions to refresh legacy tech in 600-system tax dept Let's hope DALAS procurement is a tad more sensible than its soap opera namesake Systems16 Aug 2022 | 19
Philippines orders fraud probe after paying MacBook prices for slow Celeron laptops Education Department planned to buy 70,000 laptops, blew its budget and bought just 40,000 Personal Tech16 Aug 2022 | 61
Accenture bags IT services contract for UK tax collector Updated Award timing reveals further slippage in HMRC's mega procurement plan On-Prem13 Jul 2022 | 7
UK's Ministry of Defence awards Boxxe multimillion Microsoft license deal Contract seeks 'support with the renewal and running of Microsoft Enterprise Agreement' Software12 Jul 2022 | 7
WCL bags UK government framework for 'everything ICT' £800m contract focused on education sector will see subcontractors managed by consultant On-Prem07 Jul 2022 | 4
UK's Post Office shells out for SAP software it thought it had 'Significantly under-licenced' but didn't factor in Customer Success Manager when dealing with reseller Applications21 Jun 2022 | 15
Concerns that £360m data platform for NHS England is being set up to fail Delays said to favor Palantir as health service seeks suppliers to support its top-down data revolution Databases13 Jun 2022 | 43
UK police to spend tens of millions on legacy comms network kit More evidence of where that half-a-billion-a-year cost of Emergency Services Network delay is going Networks09 Jun 2022 | 25
UK Home Office awards Oracle a deal extension worth tens of millions Fellow travelers in the Whitehall shared services journey await their SaaS move SaaS07 Jun 2022 | 5
ServiceNow takes aim at procurement pain points Purchasing teams are a bit like help desks – always being asked to answer dumb or inappropriate questions SaaS25 May 2022 |
UK's state-owned bank launches hunt for core systems worth close to $1b Go on, spoil yourself: NS&I to splurge on IT as Atos deal hits twilight years On-Prem04 May 2022 | 17
Tech vendors to get 18-month insight into UK govt IT spending Playbook on how to sell into market worth tens of billions On-Prem29 Mar 2022 | 3
Capgemini wins £30m deal to work on UK customs Delayed system 'vital component' of Brexit govt's enactment of the Northern Ireland Protocol On-Prem07 Mar 2022 | 17
Desperately seeking SaaS: English council to replace Oracle R12 Big Red product to become more unstable, unreliable, and less secure after 20 years' use Databases01 Mar 2022 | 9
Expect sales reps' calls if IT wants to ditch Oracle Licensing and compliance issues advisor spills the beans Databases15 Feb 2022 | 23
UK pins hopes on 'latest technology' to whittle down massive National Health Service waiting lists £500m tech consultancy procurement in the offing Software09 Feb 2022 | 95
The (IT capacity) testing times we live in: Survey's in – and my, how some of you have grown Reg Reader Survey Only one respondent 'noticeably reduced the capacity of their systems' On-Prem07 Dec 2021 |
When it comes to renting tech kit, things can get personal, very quickly Register Debate Is hardware by subscription bad for customers? Readers have their say PaaS + IaaS03 Dec 2021 | 21
Renting IT hardware on a subscription basis is bad for customers Register Debate We're back with another debate you can vote on as we argue back and forth – this time over cloud computing PaaS + IaaS29 Nov 2021 | 53
IT systems capacity planning. This is hard ... but how hard? Inquiring minds wish to know Reg Reader Survey Share your experiences with us and fellow readers. Let's find out together On-Prem17 Nov 2021 | 5
Microsoft wins JEDI contract, Amazon complains. Amazon wins NSA contract, watchdog says Microsoft right to moan US Government Audit Office upholds Redmond's protest PaaS + IaaS01 Nov 2021 | 12
Share your experience: How does your organization introduce new systems? Reg Reader Survey The answer is rarely obvious. Take part in our short poll and we'll find out together On-Prem19 Oct 2021 | 10
Supply chain pain: Cisco's base price structure moving north from November Demand for components at a 10-year high Networks06 Oct 2021 | 9
No return of the JEDI: Supreme Court declines to hear Oracle's challenge to now-dead cloud deal Blown up like a Death Star Off-Prem04 Oct 2021 | 9
Kent County Council names eight suppliers on £500m education framework Southeast England authority goes big – despite £100m black hole in finances On-Prem29 Sep 2021 | 9
Yet another Big Tech exec heads to central government: This time IBMer Dan Bailey in 6-month stint Big Blue UK and Ireland cloud man hired as 'interim' CTO, tasked with creating fellowship of the cloud Off-Prem27 Sep 2021 | 9
JEDI contract might be no more, but case should live on, says Oracle: DoD only wants Amazon, Microsoft for new cloud deal Just when you thought it was safe to get out of the courtroom PaaS + IaaS21 Sep 2021 | 15
Over 9 months late, England's highways agency launches contract to buy £1bn in IT Rebranded org now calling itself National Highways On-Prem21 Sep 2021 | 15
Surveillance tech company sues Police Digital Service over 'flawed' scoring of bids on £18m contract Excession chief exec testifies in High Court of England and Wales Security26 Aug 2021 |
UK Home Office tenders £5m for a supplier to help it greenlight IT projects. Yes, you read that correctly Procurement raises questions over supplier creating its own sales pipeline within govt Channel19 Apr 2021 | 16
12 tech merchants win slices of £504m NHS framework without competition because everything is terrible Ain't nobody got time for that On-Prem25 Jan 2021 | 6
UK government's cloud ERP strategy seems to be in stasis following top civil servant's move to COVID-19 task force Updated Or maybe it's that no one wants to touch this complex SaaS migration SaaS25 Jan 2021 | 5
UK West Midlands town finds five-year HR system deal is only offer on the table in pandemic-stricken procurement Five more years, five more years... or nothing! On-Prem16 Nov 2020 | 19
Workday targets 'procurement software' market after bumper Q2, but boss man is big on ambition, thin on detail Customers clearly looking to simplify buying into supply chains – but the market is tougher than it looks SaaS16 Sep 2020 |
Accenture scores £20m contract extension with UK pensions department: Competition? We've heard of it But it's a complex technology stack, so we're the sole contender Software24 Aug 2020 | 9
London cops seeking £600m mega IT contract to knock 'towers' sprawl into 'one throat to choke' ACK! Networks20 Nov 2019 | 30
Will someone think of the taxpayer? UK.gov needs to stop burning billions on shoddy procurement, says Reform The solution: create a regulator with teeth and deeper pockets Legal29 Oct 2019 | 35