Cabinet Office

Gov tech buyers told to buy from CloudStore first

Um, good luck with that ...

Channel08 May 2013 | 2

Watchdog warns UK.gov not to create 'them and us' digital divide

Want some welfare payouts? Buy a computer

Legal28 Mar 2013 | 48

British spooks chum up with IT-related biz to battle cyber threats

Will your firm have someone in the secret London ops room?

On-Prem27 Mar 2013 | 5

'End the commercial-in-confidence CROOKS' CHARTER', gov told

Rip the cloak off the ripoff deals, advise Cabinet Office

Channel26 Mar 2013 | 13

Googlification of Britain: Forget 'IT worker', we're all just 'digital' now

Brit public sector 'must be imbued by culture of web generation'

On-Prem15 Mar 2013 | 26

National Audit Office tears government's savings claims in HALF

Not sure how many SMEs suppliers working with gov either

Channel23 Jan 2013 | 10

UK.gov hires data-handling privatisation point man as CTO

'After all, it is our data. Not the state’s'

Channel14 Dec 2012 | 8

UK taxpayers spunk £8m on lubing civil servants for data release

£25k wad dangled before start-ups to make apps about UK.gov

Legal13 Dec 2012 | 10

Maude reckons UK.gov web makeover will save £1.8bn annually

Just want to talk to someone? Request it via HTML

Legal06 Nov 2012 | 20

UK.gov unzips, pulls out £100m wad for its favourite suppliers

Now if only civil servants could log into the CloudStore

Channel26 Oct 2012 | 1

Hold my feet to the fire using open gov data, pleads minister

Smell of burning socks to waft along Whitehall?

Legal18 Oct 2012 | 10

Axe falls on Directgov as GOV.UK launches

A taxpayer service that saves taxpayer money... Hmm

Legal17 Oct 2012 | 41

UK.gov will struggle to avoid pain in further IT cuts, says HP bigwig

Me cutlass is hittin' bone now, King's man

Channel19 Sep 2012 |

Gov splashed £98k through CloudStore in July

A third of it on a little-known SME called Microsoft

Channel17 Aug 2012 | 3

Cabinet Office faces SME supplier backlash over Cloud Store

But Maude's mouthpiece says it is breaking monopoly of integration giants

Channel16 Aug 2012 | 7

Gov Cloud Store up and running again

Scheduled update caused unscheduled downtime

Networks26 Jul 2012 |

Cabinet Office names bean counter as chief buyer

Former Accenture man Crothers as chief procurement officer

Legal10 Jul 2012 | 6

UK's chief procurement officer quits for COO post at recruitment firm

John Collington's off to slash spending in the private sector

Legal05 Jul 2012 | 2

Gov IT buying body: Mega hardware gig to save £6.5m in 2013

Margins driven to the bone, claims GPS

Channel29 Jun 2012 | 2

Maude to gov IT suppliers: If you are rubbish you will be binned

Speaking of rubbish, those public sector buying frameworks...

Legal28 Jun 2012 | 19

Cabinet Office: We've cut taxpayers' SAP and Microsoft bills

Tearful giants face starvation on < £300m this year

Channel27 Jun 2012 | 15

Cabinet Office pilots sales website for small IT suppliers

Pops open tiny bunghole for SME access to porkbarrel

On-Prem26 Jun 2012 | 3

Whitehall goes to White House for advice on 'ID assurance' plans

'A big step forward on the identity assurance mission'

Legal19 Jun 2012 | 2

Cabinet Office: Lid comes off UK.gov £4bn IT pork barrel 'at month end'

Just contain yourselves

Channel19 Jun 2012 | 2

Tech boffins: Spend gov money on catching cyber crooks, not on AV

Cure is the best form of prevention, say Cambridge brains

Security18 Jun 2012 | 22

UK.gov Open Data site fills up with spam

Opened-up government floodgates work both ways

Legal15 Jun 2012 | 20

Slippery £4bn supplier deadline flies through UK.gov's fingers AGAIN

Who'll pick up the soap in the public sector showers?

Channel14 Jun 2012 | 3

UK Gov not using six million of its software licences

Plans 'dynamic' transfer after premature PIN push

Legal07 Jun 2012 | 14

Microsoft confirms UK.gov to dodge licensing hike... almost

Cabinet Office to pay 1% more, but biz to feel the squeeze

Channel06 Jun 2012 | 12

UK.gov beats down Microsoft software price hike to 1pc

Redmond and Cabinet Office ink 3-year deal

Channel31 May 2012 | 20

UK.gov IT slasher axes himself - after 5 months in new job

Ian Watmore follows horde of civil servants streaming out the door

Legal17 May 2012 | 9

Public sector exempted from swingeing Microsoft UK price hike

Redmond keen to avoid another Maude handbag

Channel02 May 2012 | 12

Expert: UK would break its own rules with web-snoop law

Hello there, Data Protection Act

Legal30 Apr 2012 | 24

Facebook wonk among 'digital' advisers to Cabinet Office

No room on board for Google or telcos, though...

Legal25 Apr 2012 | 14

'Special relationship': Oracle bags UK.gov contract renewal

Cabinet Office sticks to big biz for Whitehall database – with some caveats

Databases28 Mar 2012 | 4

£30m gov ID scheme to be steered by dole office

DWP (once again) puts out notice to private sector players

Channel02 Mar 2012 | 12

Cabinet Office 'fesses up to Cloud Store gremlins

Boss vows to 'fix that dratted feedback form'

Channel23 Feb 2012 | 3

UK.gov's mega-cloud VIP biz list kept under wraps

Suppliers find out if they're in the G-Cloud club

Channel07 Feb 2012 | 3

Cabinet Office moves step closer to killing Directgov

Test drive new Gov.uk beta build today

Legal01 Feb 2012 | 48

Gov's 'open data' strategy: It'll cost too much and won't work

Report: Public sector may struggle to support Cabinet plan

Legal01 Feb 2012 | 10

Gov.uk loses 2 top techies, needs some new ones

Glam jobs up for grabs at DWP and Cabinet Office

Legal23 Jan 2012 | 11

Microsoft beaten down 16pc on software sales to NHS

UK.gov lifts ban after cost-cutting crunch talks

Channel12 Dec 2011 | 41

Cabinet Office extends G Cloud deadline

Suppliers get more time to bid for public sector cloud biz

Channel08 Dec 2011 | 2

Cabinet Secretary: Freedom of Info law stifles policy confabs

I can't advise ministers in private, huffs Sir Gus

Legal25 Nov 2011 | 17

Gov IT boss is latest senior Cabinet Office bigwig to quit

Second in a month - who will implement IT strategy now?

Legal23 Nov 2011 | 1

UK.gov ends 'speed dating' romps with tech suppliers

Maude: Enough of one-night stands, we need relationships

Channel21 Nov 2011 | 6

Gov justifies e-petitions as MPs mull upping debate threshold

100,000 online votes too small a barrier to cross

Legal16 Nov 2011 | 18

UK.gov deputy CIO quits Cabinet Office for EMC job

Bill McCluggage puts self into storage

On-Prem09 Nov 2011 | 6

UK.gov digital boss defends ID assurance scheme

'Days of different logins for every site are numbered'

Legal04 Nov 2011 | 25

Cabinet Office publishes open source procurement toolkit

Using document format that was proprietary until 2008

SaaS03 Nov 2011 | 5

UK.gov needs fresh law to protect taxpayers' ID

Exclusive Offloading data to private biz already racks up £10m bill

Legal02 Nov 2011 | 9

Cabinet Office on £2m digital talent hunt

28 new hires to get the civil service up to speed

Legal27 Oct 2011 | 16

UK gov publishes IT action plan to back up previous IT plan

'From what to how'... Maude still plotting gov tech future

Legal20 Oct 2011 | 8

UK gov needs better data skills to cut spending

MPs want to know who to blame if £81bn target isn't reached

Legal12 Oct 2011 | 7

UK.gov goes back to school to avoid future IT blunders

GCHQ level of expertise needed across government

Legal04 Oct 2011 | 9

Whitehall: 'Don't bin whole NHS IT programme... yet'

Cabinet Office wonks eye up two NPfIT features

Legal27 Sep 2011 | 12