Sam Trendall
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Minister cites need for ‘competitive tension’ in government cloud and software landscape (opens the original)
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A government minister has cited the need for government to maintain a healthy “competitive tension and to reduce dependency on any single supplier” of software and cloud services. With one or two exceptions, much of government – in common with many sectors – relies heavily on Microsoft programs. Departments’ use of cloud services, meanwhile, is dominated by Amazon Web Services. Government has public sector-wide memoranda of understanding with both of these vendor giants – with ministers last yea
MoJ plans digitisation of 8.5 million archive records (opens the original)
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The Ministry of Justice has revealed ambitions to digitise millions of archived legacy records, including microfiche files and cassettes, as well as physical books. The records in question are held by HM Courts and Tribunals Service – an executive agency of the MoJ which currently possesses “approximately 20,000 microfiche sheets containing around two million records, and 658 cassette media units containing around 6.5 million records”, according to a newly published market-engagement notice. Alo
HMRC promises ‘intensive’ comms campaign for next wave of Making Tax Digital expansion (opens the original)
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HM Revenue and Customs will undertake an “intensive” campaign of communications to provide information to the near-two million citizens being brought in scope of the Making Tax Digital regime in the coming months and beyond, a minister has pledged. The messaging exercise will have a particular focus on self-employed taxpayers that are not represented by a specialist tax agent, according to financial secretary to the Treasury James Murray. The minister was responding on behalf of government to a
DWP signs £700k deal to support ‘secure and consistent approach to AI agents’ (opens the original)
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The Department for Work and Pensions has awarded a six-figure contract to a tech provider that will assist the organisation in implementing a “scalable, secure and consistent approach” to its use of artificial intelligence agents. On 31 August, the DWP’s Digital Workplace team entered into a one-year contract with London-based tech consultancy UBDS Digital, according to a freshly published commercial notice. The document indicates that supplier has been retained to help the department with its u
Home Office seeks £150k chief for policing tech (opens the original)
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The Home Office is offering a six-figure annual salary in a bid to recruit a senior manager to oversee law-enforcement technology across the country and spearhead the “continued modernisation of national policing systems”. The position of director for national policing systems comes with overall responsibility for “the strategic leadership, transformation and sustainment of a portfolio of nationally critical policing technology services”, according to the job advert. This includes major national
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