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  • UK: £225m bill for IT consultants

    Whitehall spend shows lack of investment in skills, say experts

    The government spent more than £225m on IT consultants last year, according to figures revealed to Parliament.

    The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) alone spent £140m - more than half the total.

  • UK: Accenture to bid for ID card contract

    Accenture has emerged as the front-runner to provide biometric technology needed to implement the UK-wide identity cards scheme, which was approved only last week.

    Ex-managing director, Ian Watmore, head of e-government and ultimately the ID project, will see his former employer bid for the biometrics contract to support the incoming cards and database.

  • UK: Alliance of e-Government suppliers is launched

    The Alliance of eGov Suppliers (The Alliance) an independent organisation working with and supporting suppliers to the local authority market place, has been launched.

    In April 2003, when the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister announced the budget of £80m to 24 National Projects to assist councils in the development of local eGovernment, the supplier community to this market place was keen to participate but unsure of how they could offer their products and enjoy the benefits.

  • UK: Businesses lose out in council e-gov projects

    Councils are not doing enough to make their e-government programmes easy for local businesses to use, research has found.

    A survey of 25 local authorities, which included county councils, shire districts and unitary authorities, showed that councils have paid less attention to web provision for companies than they have for citizens.

  • UK: Downturn in public sector IT consultants

    The share of IT contractors working on public sector IT projects has declined for the first time in three years, according to research by giant group plc, contractor services provider.

    Twenty-six per cent of all IT contractors work in the public sector, compared to 27 per cent six months ago. The public sector had a 13 per cent share of the IT contractor market in June 2003, peaking at 27 per cent at the end of 2005

  • UK: Government IT market will continue to grow

    But budgets are tightening

    The public sector IT market grew by nine per cent to more than £8bn in 2006 and will expand by 11 per cent this year, according to figures published by analyst Ovum on Thursday.

  • UK: Hertfordshire to transform back office functions with £10.2 million deal

    Hertfordshire County Council plans to improve service provision and operational effectiveness, with a SAP-based solution to transform its back-office operations & boost eGovernment potential. The extensive five-year organisational change and managed services programme with LogicaCMG, will include procurement, human resources management, payroll and financial management. These functions will be consolidated into a single SAP-based solution as part of the £10.2m deal.

  • UK: How resellers can become local heroes

    Despite the potentially huge financial benefits that local authority work can offer resellers, only a select handful seem capable of landing the deals. Many VARs assume that it is impossible to break into the local government market unless your business is on approved lists or has a very distinct specialisation. They are wrong.

    Silversands is a Microsoft Gold Partner based in Poole. It has won contracts with local authorities around the country by focusing on their needs and by selling its ability to tailor Microsoft technologies to meet them.

  • UK: In the interest of public security

    With the public sector undergoing an unprecedented IT drive, security is moving higher up the agenda for many organisations.

    More than 70 per cent of public-sector bodies now have an IT security manager in place, according to a Unisys-sponsored survey. When you consider that the public sector is renowned for being understaffed when it comes to IT and communications technology, this gives you some indication of just how high security is on the public sector agenda.

  • UK: In the public eye

    The public sector seems to be awash with cash for IT projects. But how easy is it for resellers to get in on the action?

    Most resellers know that offering the right technology is often the least of your worries when it comes to developing IT services in the public sector. This is an area where the IT market obeys its own rules - arguably making it not only the hardest space to penetrate but sometimes the riskiest to be involved with.

  • UK: London: Microsoft can't afford to let Newham fail

    Is it hats off to Newham Council, or should we brace for chaos?

    We already knew the London borough had forced Microsoft to give it a great deal to prevent it implementing Linux. But Newham -- one of the UK capital's more down-trodden areas -- really has reached for the skies. A 13.5 percent saving on IT costs can't be sniffed at. Landing a 10-year partnership with the giant of Redmond is shooting the moon.

  • UK: London: Newham wird Microsofts Vorzeigeprojekt

    Londoner Stadtgemeinde will mit MS-Produkten 4,7 Millionen Euro sparen | MS-Software laut Capgemini-Studie sicherer als Open Source | Wettbewerb durch Linux brachte besseres Angebot

    Die Londoner Stadtgemeinde Newham setzt weiter auf die Produkte von Microsoft.

  • UK: London: Spekulationen um Linux als Preisdruckmittel gegen Microsoft

    Vertreter des Londoner Bezirks Newham haben Berichte dementiert, bei der Entscheidung für künftige Software hätten sie gegenüber Microsoft Absichten vorgetäuscht, Open-Source-Software einzusetzen. Gemeinsam teilen Microsoft und Newham nun mit, der Vereinbarung im Juni sei eine über zwölf Wochen dauernde Untersuchung der Marktforscher von Capgemini vorausgegangen.

  • UK: Microsoft erreicht Rahmenvertrag mit britischen Behörden

    Nicht nur im Londoner Bezirk Newham kann Microsoft in Großbritannien Verträge abschließen, die als Erfolg gegen die Konkurrenz aus dem Open-Source-Lager gesehen werden: Die britische Regierung hat über ihr Beschaffungsamt einen Rahmenvertrag (Memorandum of Understanding) abgeschlossen, das den bisherigen Drei-Jahres-Vertrag über die Belieferung der britischen Regierungsbehörden mit Microsoft-Software erneuert.

  • UK: Microsoft unterzeichnet neues Abkommen mit britischer Regierung

    Der Software-Konzern Microsoft hat einen über drei Jahre laufenden Vertrag über die Erweiterung von Services, Support und die Lieferung von Software mit der britischen Regierung ausgehandelt. Das berichtet die in London erscheinende 'Financial Times' (Dienstagausgabe). Regierungsmitglied Peter Gershon wird das Abkommen als einen wichtigen Erfolg bei der Modernisierung des Staates anpreisen. Microsoft ist in dem Bereich unter starken Druck geraten, und will verhindern, dass Regierungskunden in Richtung Open Source-Plattformen abwandern.

  • UK: Ministry of Defence extends 1.5 billion BT comms contract till 2012

    A contract to deliver essential telecommunications services to the MOD and the UK Armed Forces has been extended, the Ministry of Defence has said.

    The Defence Fixed Telecommunications System (DFTS) Public Private Partnership contract with BT has been extended by five years to July 2012.

    The contract extension, is worth in excess of £1.5 Billion and will secure the continued delivery of essential telecommunications services. This will bring the total value of the DFTS contract to over £3 Billion.

  • UK: MoD signs Atlas Consortium for Defence Information Infrastructure project

    Lord Bach, Ministry of Defence, Minister for Defence Procurement, yesterday announced that the contract has been signed with the ATLAS Consortium for the MOD's Defence Information Infrastructure (Future) (DII(F)) project.

    The ATLAS Consortium, which was named as preferred bidder for DII (F) earlier this month, comprises EDS as lead contractor, tier 1 partner Fujitsu Services, and key sub-contractors General Dynamics, EADS Defence and Security Systems and LogicaCMG.

  • UK: Public sector spends £459m on IT systems

    The public sector in Northern Ireland spent £459m on IT systems last year, new research has shown.

    The sector invested about £1,800 per employee - twice as much as the private sector, which spent £900 per worker and a total of £195m.

    The research has been carried out by IDC, on behalf of the world's largest enterprise software company Oracle, which has been operating from its Belfast office at Lanyon Quay for just over a year.

  • UK: Report bemoans poor partnerships

    Too many so called 'partnerships' between councils and the private sector fail to live up to the label, according to a new report

    The assertion has been made by the Society of IT Management (Socitm) and the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (Cipfa) in a report published on 11 April 2005. Titled A marriage of convenience? A review of experiences from partnerships and outsourcing contracts, it is based on a survey of 26 local authorities that have been involved in outsourcing.

  • UK: Successful bid for Freedom

    Reseller wins public-sector contract

    The public sector has once again been a cash cow for the channel, with Alcatel reseller Freedom Communications winning a contract from Trafford Borough Council, its biggest deal yet.

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