Invitation to Tender

UK taxman breathes life into old relationship as Capgemini handed £51m deal extension

French vendor joins fellow Aspire alumnus Fujitsu in winning contracts that extend beyond 2022 deadline

On-Prem11 Jan 2022 | 11

Consultants' eyes light up as UK.gov dangles £4bn over 6 years for 'large-scale digital transformation programmes'

Phrase is catnip for software market

On-Prem17 Sep 2021 | 9

Met Police prepare £300m procurement for integrators and resellers

London cops on track to spend £1bn on IT contracting over couple of years

On-Prem15 Sep 2021 | 3

Big data means big money for the UK government as £2bn tender mooted

Central procurement team tickles the market with tantalising offer... but what for?

Databases03 Sep 2021 | 12

UK's Defra dangles £10m as it fishes for help with upgrading Data Services Platform

Suppliers need to support bathing water widgets, among other things

PaaS + IaaS20 Aug 2021 | 2

UK's United Utilities water company to splash a possible £270m on analytics, control and monitoring platforms

'Ethical insight and competitive advantage' in the pipes if project goes to plan

PaaS + IaaS13 Aug 2021 | 4

LOL ;-) UK govt 2 pay £39m 4 txt msgs 4 less thn 2 yrs

Now that's an expensive contract

Networks04 Aug 2021 | 37

Leeds City Council swallows the Gartner glossary and orders up 'post-modern' ERP in £44m SAP replacement

When do we get avant-garde ERP?

Databases03 Aug 2021 | 9

North Wales Police seek IT services partners in deals worth up to £41.6m

Force still stinging after CGI fiasco ended up costing more than hoped for

On-Prem27 Jul 2021 | 1

Five consultancies with severe branding difficulties win spots on UK government's £580m 'transformation' services framework

Outsourcing the decision to outsource?

On-Prem07 Jul 2021 | 10

Up to £80m on the table in University of Nottingham's search for service provider to lace together IT support

Institution continues its digital makeover

On-Prem16 Jun 2021 | 11

Low-risk AND rapid? Brit vaccine centre seeks ERP to meet accelerated schedule, and needs it yesterday

Org was originally supposed to launch in 2022 – then a pandemic happened

Databases15 Mar 2021 | 4

UK.gov awards seats on £2bn 'digital outcomes' framework to suppliers – one of which doesn't even have a website

'We cannot guarantee to suppliers any business through this Commercial Agreement'

On-Prem11 Feb 2021 | 40

UK government puts £750m on the table as it looks to deal directly with cloud providers

Plan is to get public sector buying services straight from suppliers

SaaS04 Dec 2020 | 20

UK.gov's centralised buying agency wafts £1.2bn of taxpayer cash in return for a bevy of back-office software

Software subscriptions and licence support a must for bidding businesses

Software16 Nov 2020 |

Cops aren't normally the most 'agile' of folk, but that's exactly what London's Metropolitan Police Service would like to be

And it's waving £350m to get it done

Software02 Nov 2020 | 8

Watch as UK government magically makes value of £500m framework contract swell to four times the size

And for my next trick... behold! Digital transformation!

On-Prem29 Oct 2020 | 8

A freshly formed English council waves £18m at UK tech industry, asks: Can somebody design and run pretty much everything for us?

The IT services wish list is about what you'd expect from an 18-month-old

SaaS07 Oct 2020 | 25

Yorkshire authority seeks £3m 'modern, cloud-based, future-proof ERP solution' in as few products as possible

No pressure

SaaS06 Oct 2020 | 16

UK Ministry of Justice dangles £20m, seeks paper-free payroll services – this time for the judiciary

Yes, why not haul the system into the 21st century?

On-Prem22 Sep 2020 | 6

UK utility Severn Trent tests the waters with £4.8m for SCADA monitoring and management in the clouds

'Vision' platform to be 'cornerstone of our emerging asset intelligence strategy and programme'

Software02 Sep 2020 | 26

Highways England primes market for £2bn tech spend as part of massive investment in crumbling roads network

Tender notices cover range of IT needs all the way down to parking meters

On-Prem24 Aug 2020 | 40

UK puts £200m on table for dynamic purchasing system to supply public sector with AI

Don't worry, your job's safe... we think

AI + ML07 Aug 2020 | 18

Going for a song: Wales inks £300m in deals after shopping spree for hardware, software, and audio-visual equipment

Public and voluntary sector welcome to buy from framework agreement winners

On-Prem05 Aug 2020 | 6

Southern Water to splash £50m on IT services to purify systems of planning, governance and internal controls

We'll raise a glass of the good stuff to that

Software20 Jul 2020 | 3

Oh deer! Scotland needs some tech smarts to help monitor its rampant herbivore populations

Drones and satellite imagery probably better than sending out four helicopters at a time – or counting poop

Science17 Jul 2020 | 41

With another NHS overhaul in the offing, £200m up for grabs in northern England for pretty much anything related to IT

Whatever it is they're doing, consultants will be kept busy

On-Prem15 Jul 2020 | 9

Paging technology providers: £3m is on the table to replace archaic NHS comms network

10% of the world's pagers are in use by Britain's health service

On-Prem22 Jun 2020 | 38

It's June, and you guessed it! Pork barrel time for resellers as £500m public sector framework gets go-ahead

18 county and city councils – as well as an NHS trust – get ready to dish out taxpayers' cash

On-Prem16 Jun 2020 | 6

Civica bags £25m deal to handle web portal for UK National Driver Offender Retraining Scheme

How many speeding Brit drivers does contract value equate to? 250,000 based on minimum fine possible

On-Prem09 Jun 2020 | 8