The Defence Electronic Commerce Service (DECS) project, which will allow the MoD to tender its procurement requirements on the internet, is a central part of a cost cutting measure that should save the department up to 20 per cent over the next...
Members of the closed-door joint committee decided to keep the language that restricted the budget for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa), saying they were "concerned about the activities of the Information Awareness Office, and...
Another high-profile IT failure that cost the government some £456m saw MPs repeatedly call for more access to information and transparency. Still, Whitehall has managed to pull the odd one or two success stories out of the bag in recent months...
HMRC said it does not expect that level of spending to continue and explained that its demand for IT services will decline because of targets for reducing staff levels by 12,500, an increase in the use of electronic services, the rationalisation...
Another problem is the lack of co-ordination between the four main procurement organisations across central government and the NHS - the Defence Logistics Organisation, the Defence Procurement Agency, NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency and OGCbuying...
Transport secretary Ruth Kelly admitted to Parliament this week that a hard disk went missing from a secure facility of the DSA's third-party contractor, Pearson Driving Assessments in the US, in May.
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