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DWP moves from HP to Fujitsu

by | Jan 19, 2010 | Central government, ICT

Looks like Fujitsu’s punt on the shared services contract with the Cabinet Office is paying off, as the DWP moves across. As suspected, this is not directly through Flex, but as a separate contract. So why let Flex in the first place?

More shared services in local government

by | Nov 27, 2009 | ICT, Shared Services

Deloitte warns LAs not to outsource in bulk. This is contrary to the efficiency-based outsourcing deals underway like Cardiff and TCS and tenders from, for example, West Sussex. How about sharing staff: the figure given is that 30,000 people work in government IT. A...

UK government-wide IT strategy

by | Nov 26, 2009 | ICT

Government-wide IT strategy draft emerges. As I read it, most was already known such as the link with the Operational Efficiency Programme, g-cloud, and government app store. That said, all these are sensible routes to follow. Interesting to see how it links with the...

Government ICT spend both up and down

by | Nov 24, 2009 | ICT

DVLA doubles annual IT spend. Government ICT spending heads for plateau. So there must be quite a few departmental cuts, if these reports are both correct. To my mind better online service provision is one of the key routes to efficiency. This might argue for...

Departmental ICT: Home, Justice

by | Nov 20, 2009 | Central government, ICT

Home office ICT. Nothing too surprising there, although I would be interested in the aggregate cost of the sub-£5m projects ignored in the table. Justice ICT. Lots of meaningless acronyms: I wonder what they are all for? OMNI Transformation, anyone? (A: Steria’s...