Procurement

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

Yorkshire public sector procurement body YPO opens £400m framework for data centres, cloud hosting and security

But how much will go to AWS?

On-Prem16 Aug 2019 | 3

Police ICT Company kills £500m procurement, no longer wants one box shifter to rule them all

Yep, THAT would-be siloed IT smasher, conceived in Theresa May's brainpan 8 years ago...

Channel16 May 2019 | 21

JEDI mind tricks: Brakes slammed on Pentagon's multibillion cloud deal

This may not be the vendor you're looking for – explain yourself to get your funding

SaaS08 May 2018 | 21

US techies: We want to see Pentagon's defence of winner-takes-all cloud contract

Industry calls on DoD to publish procurement report on single vendor award

SaaS02 May 2018 | 17

Pentagon sticks to its guns: Yep, we're going with a single cloud services provider

Oracle's Catz: I chatted to Trump about plan, it 'makes no sense'

SaaS17 Apr 2018 | 93

Tech biz boss slipped Detroit's IT chief bungs in restaurant bathrooms to bag software deals, prosecutors claim

He was flush with cash, allegedly

Software01 Feb 2018 | 13

Hey Europe, your apathetic IT spending is ruining it for everyone

Gartner predicts buyers ready to splash 4.5% more cash globally in 2018

On-Prem16 Jan 2018 | 15

Dear US taxpayers, 4.5 BEEELLION of your dollars were blown on unapproved IT projects

Govt CIOs failing to scrutinize techies' spending – watchdog

On-Prem12 Jan 2018 | 21

Brit prosecutors ask IT suppliers to fight over £3 USB cable tender

Updated See? We do give small businesses a chance for work

Legal05 Jul 2017 | 124

Ubuntu 'weaponised' to cure NHS of its addiction to Microsoft Windows

Special report Take 750,000 smartcards, millions of PCs, mix in a week-long hackathon

On-Prem30 Jun 2017 | 302

Challenging dodgy generalisations on IT spending

Reg Reader Research I think you'll find it's not as simple as that

Software21 Jun 2017 |

India makes biometrics mandatory for all e-gov projects

Cloud's just 'recommended', for now, as local industry plans 50 per cent growth by 2025

Legal24 May 2017 | 7

Uncle Sam drags feet on govt data center cull

Not enough agencies tightening their belts, say auditors

On-Prem22 May 2017 | 8

UK.gov cuts deal with Microsoft to avoid £15m post-Brexit price hike

Exclusive Pan-government deal applies to 200,000 licences

Legal11 Apr 2017 | 62

CA forks out $45m to make claims it screwed over US govt go away

Ex-employee turned whistleblower is $10m richer

Software13 Mar 2017 | 6

Cut off: Big government IT wallets snap shut on BT's fingers

Reg Whitehall spend analysis reveals cash flowing away

Networks07 Feb 2017 | 27

Well, well. Auditors say UK govt procurement body hasn't saved your tax cash

What is it 741 people do exactly?

Legal13 Dec 2016 | 24

Sysadmins: Poor capacity planning is not our fault

Let us explain why things are so crap

On-Prem05 Sep 2016 | 31

NHS injects tender for PC and peripherals kit with £500m

Who said there's no money in the kitty for junior doctors... oh Gov.UK did

Channel25 Aug 2016 | 12

You’ve left too many VMs lying about. You’re a very naughty boy

Buy-buy baby: Building a disciplined cloud

On-Prem01 Aug 2016 | 5

NATO holds up £2.5bn platter of IT procurement deals: Help yourselves

Alliance is to splurge cash on plethora of new hardware and software

Channel27 Jul 2016 | 3

This local council paid HOW MUCH for an SD card?!

Barmy burghers not the worst when it comes to price-padded procurement

Channel29 Jun 2016 | 145

No contract protected against the risk of bid-rigging, says expert

In procurement? Read this

Channel23 Jun 2016 | 11

UK.gov's promise to pour cash into SMEs was just hot air

Analysis Professor lays spending blame at Crown Commercial Services' door

Channel31 May 2016 | 12

UK.gov preparing to lob up to £4bn at commodity tech

Mega framework contract notice out ... also calls for open source

Channel24 May 2016 | 2

When should you bin that old mainframe? Infrastructure 101

Your data centre shouldn't need a 24/7/365 emergency support contract

On-Prem31 Mar 2016 | 26

Buying gov.UK kit via price-comparison digital portal could 'save £10bn'

G-Cloud should be model for all gov spending – report

Channel07 Mar 2016 | 14

Ever been burned by a bad IT decision? Of course you have!

Let's talk about supplier relationship management

On-Prem05 Oct 2015 | 16

Behind the curve: How not to be a technology laggard

Be fast but not first, says Dave Cartwright

On-Prem01 Oct 2015 | 12

Penny wise and pound foolish: Server hoarders are energy wasters

Sysadmin blog How long has this been going on?

On-Prem24 Sep 2015 | 42

Cut-throat cloud pricing not as cut-throat as you'd think

Look away from the static pricing for services...

On-Prem22 Jul 2015 | 1

Surging US dollar curbs global IT budgets

5.5% fall masks increased activity, says Gartner

On-Prem30 Jun 2015 | 3

Rogue IT is shadow of its former self

We are all partners now, CompTIA study reveals

On-Prem29 Jun 2015 | 5

SME IT contracts? That's the last thing Whitehall wants – report

We also lack procurement skills, say central govt departments

On-Prem27 May 2015 | 9

Watch out for the products that have snuck in behind your back

Danger lurks in shadow IT

SaaS24 Apr 2015 | 18

Microsoft: You want on-prem wares, UK.gov? We'll make you pay

Cough up more for old-style licences, cloudy stuff to fall

Channel24 Feb 2015 | 31

£100 MILLION poured down drain on failed UK.gov IT projects - in just ONE YEAR

Who cares, it's only other people's mon- oh. Really?

Channel16 Feb 2015 | 66

Crims at vendors could crock kit says ENISA

Secure procurement guide wants suppliers to disclose employees' colourful pasts

Channel11 Dec 2014 | 8