News
UK Crown Prosecution Service preps £2.5m financial analysis system procurement
As Ministry of Justice struggles with technical debt and legacy burden
contracts
Bank’s “Rainbow” programme turns a shade of Big Blue
£100 million to build an application and a "fully functional transactional website"? We'll take it!
Cloud
UK gas utility eyes "high-risk" shift to Azure, frets over ICS security
"A requirement to bring unmanaged and unsupported ICS devices under proper governance and control..."
Vodafone
Vodafone wins £52 million gas CNI network contract
The contract, effective early September, will see Vodafone link National Gas operational control centres, critical national infrastructure (CNI) data centres and remote sites
utilities
UK water companies go to market for open data platform
Utilities want a platform “capable of enabling the easy publication of data in both a centralised and decentralised manner"
public sector
Eight years in, £2 billion spent, and nothing to show bar a big fat interoperability hole
Astonishingly the Home Office, already under pressure over interoperability challenges “does not know how many vendors provide" control room systems across 108 service stations...
HMG
One SaaS to rule them: HMG takes £215m ERP contract for 29 agencies to market. Winner takes all.
A "combined single instance SaaS Solution along with a Systems Integrator" please -- but you can propose some different contracting models and bid teams...
Cybersecurity
“Extreme urgency”: Flurry of cybersecurity tenders show CNI security focus
"Events unforeseeable for the contracting entity”
Enterprise IT
National Grid seeks £5m of external help to become “agile digital” organisation
Energy powerhouse eyes Agile at scale; help with DevSecOps.
Featured
Scottish Water dangles £50m for new cybersecurity partner
Wanted: MDR and a whole lot more
Enterprise IT
Deloitte wins £2.3m "digital forensics" contract as police devices backlog mounts
Police face a backlog of 25,000 unexamined devices...
Enterprise IT
TfL to scrap Oyster system under £1.5B new contract, looks to monetise payments data
"Project Proteus" details emerge...