Latest News on Procurement

CloudStore 2.0 - not quite there yet?

 

Government reneges on open source promise for Cloudstore 2.0

 

Government caps most IT projects at £100m

 

Oracle deal promises £75m in savings for government

 

IT contracts to be capped in fresh push to make public sector SME friendlyThe Guardian

 

Breaking Down Procurement Barriers For Smaller Business Suppliers

 

Public procurement in EU: Commission invites experts to take part in policy-shaping and implementation.

 

OpenForum Europe finds trademark references in IT procurements widespread, break rules

 

More SMEs for government suppliers: Liam Maxwell's three-step plan

 

Public Sector ICT: Cross Party MPs Insist Government Should Become An "Intelligent Customer" In New Report

 

ICT procurement consultation

 

Cabinet Office extends G Cloud deadline

 

The Crown and suppliers: a new way of working

 

Francis Maude is unashamedly obsessed with procurement but what's in it for suppliers?

 

Radical package unveiled to support business and promote growth

 

Government issues invitation to tender for free software support

 

Still Crippled By "Free"

 

Dipping Into the UK Government's Open Source Procurement Toolkit

 

Exploring The Strategic Implementation Plan for the government ICT strategy

 

Cabinet Office publishes open source procurement toolkit

 

Whitehall to aim for half of ICT spend on cloud

 

UK gov publishes IT action plan to back up previous IT plan

 

Portugal opening up public sector IT contracts

 

European Commission buys Microsoft for 20 years without competition

 

UK Government Breaks Promise To Use SMEs

 

Scotland seeks £100m IT hardware deal

 

Public Sector procurement: SMEs to the rescue

 

Time to walk the talk? – New Study on procurement practice in Sweden regarding open standards and document formats

 

NHS database: Digital disaster

 

Waste that the country can no longer afford

 

IT giants 'ripping off Whitehall', say MPs

 

NHS told: freeze all Microsoft spend

 

New company to lead UK police ICT procurement

 

Licensing focus in govt open source guide

 

Single Market Act: EU public procurement framework has saved around 20 billions euros

 

Government looks to extend £800m savings on IT to rest of public sector

 

Open source vendors unfairly excluded from government contracts

 

Open standards are a closed book to ICT procurement across Europe

 

EU goes global for procurement standards

 

Government pledges to halt procurement 'madness'

 

Gov 'skunkworks' to develop e-petitions system

 

Many EU IT tenders break procurement laws

 

Gov't IT procurement tenders 'consistently breaking competition laws'

 

Government told to focus more on efficiency, less on IT

 

Letting in the SMEs

 

EU to launch tender notice for Open Data Portal

 

What happens to our £220bn annual procurement spend?

 

MEPs want Commission to disclose details of proprietary software deal

 

Cabinet Office pushes suppliers on open source

 

UK Government opens up contracts to small business

 

The Digital Agenda Stakeholder Community on Procurement, IT & Standards is now launched!

 

Consultation on the modernisation of EU public procurement policy (until 18.04.2011)

 

EU Calls for Consultation on the Green Paper on expanding the use of e-Procurement

 

EU procurement rules unpopular in UK