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
UK.gov launches one kit-buying framework to rule them all Public sector lifts shutters on internal Compare The Market-style site Channel06 Nov 2014 | 1
Still no start date for UK.gov’s £6bn Tech Products contract It's a 'total ballsup' - framework supplier Channel04 Nov 2014 | 5
Keep a beady eye on your business's cloud service shopping Don't let staff go crazy Systems16 Oct 2014 | 3
Microsoft walks into a bar. China screams: 'Eww is that Windows 8? GET OUT OF HERE' That's what happens if you axe support for XP OSes20 May 2014 | 82
Scotland Yard defends single supplier IT gig with Insight 'Transparency, savings, value, erm ... market intelligence ... I could go on' Channel18 Mar 2014 | 13
The target: 25% of UK gov IT from small biz... The reality: Not even close Proud mandarins ignoring Cabinet Office's master plan, note MPs Legal23 Sep 2013 | 17
How do you choose your vendors? Sysadmin blog Trevor Pott has a little list. What has he missed? On-Prem17 Sep 2013 | 24
Department of Interior dishes out $10bn for cloudy IT Amazon Web Services lurks in background while IBM crows of its fortune SaaS16 Aug 2013 | 12
UK gov 'still failing' at procurement, says Commons committee Slower than everyone else, can't build supplier relations... Channel23 Jul 2013 | 11
BBC suspends CTO after £100m is wasted on doomed IT system Revealed: The digital monster that ate Shepherd's Bush On-Prem24 May 2013 | 118
Australia cuts Microsoft bill by AU$100m CTO John Sheridan wonders why anyone would upgrade Office again On-Prem17 Feb 2013 | 81
Jock and Awe: Scottish schools' sixty-mil 'slab splurge Fondlekit to spread across prisons, third sector etc Channel26 Nov 2012 | 21