Procurement

UK Home Office opens wallet for £60M automated number plate project

Department eyes new app to tap national ANPR data for live alerts, searches, and integrations

Public Sector07 Oct 2025 | 46

'Money-saving' UK procurement platform racks up monster tab

Updated Projected £1.5M running costs balloon to £12M under new contracts

Public Sector30 Sep 2025 | 11

Home Office delays £816M English test contract despite market engagement

Government wants to assess would-be immigrants' language skills remotely

Public Sector10 Sep 2025 | 21

So much for the paperless office: UK government inks £900M deal for printers etc.

Four-year framework hands Canon and pals a license to print money

Personal Tech08 Sep 2025 | 36

Fujitsu under fire for bidding on UK public sector deals despite Horizon scandal vow

Millions continued to flow after Japanese supplier said it would step back

Public Sector05 Sep 2025 | 25

UK Home Office hikes tech consultant spend to £350M despite pledge to cut costs

Warnings of internal skills shortages fail to quell appetite for hand-holding

Public Sector03 Sep 2025 | 20

Uncle Sam launches AI sandbox for government use, says it won't be around for long

GSA AI chief says market can do better but the feds needed a kickstart

Public Sector20 Aug 2025 |

Uncle Sam asks industry if it has AI that'll make procurement suck less

Plan includes chatbots 'with full user context and data access' – what could go wrong?

Public Sector19 Aug 2025 | 9

AWS offers $1B credit to slash Uncle Sam's cloud bills - and lock in as a provider until at least 2028

What, you don't expect them to keep using Microsoft with its Chinese cloud admins, do you?

Public Sector07 Aug 2025 | 5

Faced with £40B budget hole, UK public sector commits £9B to Microsoft

Government plans £1.9B annual spending during five-year MoU

Public Sector07 Aug 2025 | 61

Capgemini wins £107M HMRC extension – no competition needed

Updated Deal for legacy applications support reaches £322M as they continue to be decommissioned

Public Sector31 Jul 2025 | 15

UK buys time with £1.65B extension to G-Cloud framework

Replacement deal not ready, so old one gets 6 more months and budget bump

Public Sector29 Jul 2025 | 9

Fujitsu sorry for Post Office horror – but still cashing big UK govt checks

Updated Non-competitive £220M datacenter deal with tax collector tops £510M pile of public money

Public Sector17 Jul 2025 | 47

UK tech minister negotiated nothing with Google. He may get even less than that

Comment Peter Kyle promised alternative to 'ball and chain' of legacy systems, but he has no plan and little power

Public Sector16 Jul 2025 | 39

Brit politicians question Fujitsu's continued role in public sector contracts

Updated Despite Horizon scandal promises to end bidding, bids keep popping up

Public Sector25 Jun 2025 | 23

UK MoD pauses £92M Oracle Fusion contract amid project governance review

Last of Whitehall-wide ERP overhaul will not kick off until next year

Databases17 Jun 2025 | 5

Post Office finally throttles delayed in-house EPOS project

Troubled state biz tenders £410M software and DC-to-cloud migration plan, goodbye to Fujitsu on the Horizon

Public Sector14 May 2025 | 35

After leaving citizens on hold for 798 years, UK tax authority has £1B for CRM upgrade

HMRC kicks off procurement to modernize customer service after scathing reports

Public Sector29 Apr 2025 | 23

Fujitsu promised to sit out UK deals ... then Northern Ireland called with £125M

Despite Horizon fallout, Japanese supplier continues to win public sector work

Public Sector23 Apr 2025 | 27

Legacy tech is the gift that keeps billing for UK's tax collector

£5.2B more thrown at the never-ending quest to modernize HMRC

Public Sector16 Apr 2025 | 15

Capita's Northern Ireland school IT deal swells to over half a billion after Fujitsu exit

Education authority still searching for an alternative after 13 years

Public Sector24 Mar 2025 | 19

UK government to open £16B IT services competition after 6-month delay

Technology Services 4 framework expands by £4B, with procurement to begin this week

Public Sector17 Mar 2025 | 19

UK government's cloud strategy: Pay more, get less, blame vendor lock-in?

Home Office's £450M deal with AWS raises questions over competition and aligning department requirements

PaaS + IaaS28 Feb 2025 | 19

Mega council officers had no idea what they were buying ahead of Oracle fiasco

Lack of skills left Birmingham officials unable to challenge suppliers and with a system incapable of managing finances

Databases25 Feb 2025 | 114

UK tax authority eyes £880M overhaul for Northern Ireland trade services

Cost of post-Brexit arrangements revealed as HMRC looks at options following Fujitsu contract

Software20 Feb 2025 | 18

UK electrical utility seeks partner for £81M SAP overhaul as support deadline closes in

Integrations with third-party software await chosen provider

Databases18 Feb 2025 | 11

Already three years late, NHS finance system replacement delayed again

Project to swap out Oracle E-Business Suite gets another red rating from projects watchdog

Applications11 Feb 2025 | 24

Why does the UK keep getting beaten up by IT suppliers?

Tech and commercial functions need to get in shape for the challenges ahead

Public Sector28 Jan 2025 | 78

UK government tech procurement lacks understanding, says watchdog

NAO report highlights £3B cost overruns and 29 years of cumulative delays in IT projects

Personal Tech16 Jan 2025 | 69

Four plead guilty in US government tech procurement fraud case

Scheme involving bribes, bid rigging and insider info may have cost US taxpayers $1.3M

Public Sector15 Jan 2025 | 7

£3.8B later, old tech supplier flames still burning for HMRC

Deal supposed to end in 2017 continues to haunt tax collector procurement

Software09 Jan 2025 | 10

Smile! UK cops spend tens of millions on live facial recognition tech

Labour government keen, though critics paint it as a severe threat to privacy

Software25 Nov 2024 | 71

NHS drops another billion on tech in the hope of finally going digital

Framework promised last year set to reach value of up to £2.5B after chat with supply chain

Software23 Sep 2024 | 62

With billions in UK govt IT contracts about to expire, get the next vendors to act right

Poor performers get renewals, new small outfits discouraged from bidding, say researchers

Public Sector19 Sep 2024 | 23

UK pensions department's project to unite government ERP systems comes to £1.9B

Four branches attempt to streamline HR and business processes

Public Sector18 Sep 2024 | 12

NHS dangles £1.5B carrot to be outfitted with everything from PCs to printers

Gadget gladiators line up to supply world's largest healthcare org

Public Sector02 Sep 2024 | 31

UK government can't kick consultancy habit despite promises

Spending returns to pandemic levels as tech deals make up bulk of framework agreements

Public Sector24 Aug 2024 | 46

City council faces £216.5M loss over Oracle system debacle

Europe's largest local authority canceled expected savings baked into financial plans

Databases20 Aug 2024 | 106

UK.gov to chuck up to £5B to gang of back office software vendors

Framework deal set to run until 2029 as central govt transitions to new ERP SaaS model

Public Sector26 Jul 2024 | 14

Britain's Ministry of Defence accused of wasting £174M on 'external advice'

Morpheus comms system online by 2025? You must be dreaming

Public Sector24 Jun 2024 | 50

US senators propose guardrails for government AI purchases and operations

Bill proposes appointment of chief AI officers, privacy safeguards, and lots of testing

Public Sector13 Jun 2024 | 2

UK government faces £17.5M shortfall from UKCloud liquidation

Cabinet Office letter also reveals department lost money on unfinished database project

Public Sector29 Apr 2024 | 20

UK county council misses deadline for £7.3M RISE with SAP system launch

Gloucestershire reluctant to set new date in S/4HANA migration saga

PaaS + IaaS12 Apr 2024 | 15

Local councils struggle with ill-fitting software despite spending billions with suppliers

Even when tech crew gets the tweaks approved, vendor lead times are bonkers, says report

Public Sector05 Apr 2024 | 94

UK government sets sights on £8B tech procurement overhaul

Mega framework set to replace earlier deals coming to an end next year

Public Sector03 Apr 2024 | 16

Fujitsu set to be preferred bidder in UK digital ID scheme

Selection comes despite Japanese supplier's role in Post Office scandal

Software26 Mar 2024 | 107

Bank's struggle to replace Atos threw system back to dark ages

Costly project to switch supplier likely to continue into 2025, says watchdog

Software07 Mar 2024 | 20

Multiple billions up for grabs as UK government launches cloud services tenders

Two major procurement initiatives aim to beef up public sector tech

PaaS + IaaS26 Feb 2024 | 41

Fujitsu will not bid for UK.gov business until Post Office inquiry closes

Pause comes after controversial supplier wins another 9-figure deal paid for by taxpayers

Public Sector19 Jan 2024 | 52

Why do IT projects like the UK's scandal-hit Post Office Horizon end in disaster?

Kettle Lack of skills, funding, and scrutiny – pick three

Public Sector13 Jan 2024 | 133

Former Post Office boss returns CBE to sender over computer system scandal

Minister says Fujitsu could be 'on the hook' for compensation pending inquiry

Software10 Jan 2024 | 223

Fujitsu wins flood contract extension despite starring in TV drama about its failures

Deal expanded from £4.5M to £19.5M over 7 years as critics point to shortcomings

Software04 Jan 2024 | 41

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 | 16

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

Off-Prem13 Sep 2023 | 7