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Cloud on horizon in CSIRO tender

On-demand and long-term IaaS under consideration

London Boroughs join forces in mighty £1bn IT procurement framework

This enormous purchasing juggernaut will devour us all

Resellers eye up £60m-a-year UK uni software deals

Southern University Purchasing Consortium issues the tender

Oracle partners drool over juicy £750m ERP framework

Who said days of mega tenders are over? Not the FCO!

Gov cockup on £1bn mega buying framework slams SMEs in wallet

Cost-cutting in the public sector has serious implications for service delivery: just ask the SME IT suppliers counting the expense of bidding for a mega software and services agreement that may now be scrapped. Resellers were invited in June to tender for the Applications Development, Delivery and Support Services (ADDSS) …

Cabinet Office: Lid comes off UK.gov £4bn IT pork barrel 'at month end'

The Cabinet Office has confirmed it expects the delayed £4bn IT Hardware & Services framework to finally go live at month end. The three-year gig was due to start from 1 June but bidding companies were only informed by Government Procurement Services (GPS) if they had made the provisional supplier list on that day. The final …

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UK.gov to upgrade buying tool after mega cockup downs £1bn deal

Not even good enough for government work

South Australian Department formalises Apple procurement

TAFE colleges want iPads

Jock and Awe: Scottish schools' sixty-mil 'slab splurge

Scottish ministers are seeking suppliers for up to £60m of tablets and notebooks. The supply contract for the desired technology is expected to run for 15 months with an option to extend it by one or two 12-month periods. Suppliers were this month invited by Scottish Procurement to bid for two lots: the first lot involves …

More big boxen for boffins

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation – CSIRO to you and I – has gone to market for an upgrade to a 64-processor system in Canberra. The Sandy Bridge upgrade to support “future processor architectures” will also have to support PCI-e 3.0 with 40 lanes per CPU socket. Each node will have a minimum of …

Transport Dept dishes out £1.9m rail database deal to Capita

DB admin checks passenger numbers, interior carriage volume ... faints

Pasty munchers scoff at £300m council deal with comms kingpins

BT and CSC in bid to reduce Cornish costs by £5m a year

Virty market share race reaches the bend and heeeeere comes Oracle

Gartner says users want VMware alternatives for the 40% of non-virtual workloads

Microsoft Surface Pro sales CANNIBALIZING Surface RT

Redmond's slab slump continues despite Windows 8 model

UK.gov blacklists Fujitsu from future contracts - report

Not good enough for government work. Cutting

HP and Epic 'preferred bidders' for UK eHospital plan

NHS trusts to ink 10-year deal to move to shared platform

NHS helpline 'won't be cost-effective' to taxpayers - Capita

IT outsourcer won't confirm or deny withdrawal of bid

MoJ opens wallet, offers £300m for desktop services

Department's infrastructure and devices up for tender

Public sector 2 YEARS behind biz on cloud adoption - suppliers

Public sector IT buyers 'hogtied by mess of red tape'

Buying Solutions launches office supply framework

Make it Intel: CSIRO needs new kit to replace supercomputer

Gov IT buying body: Mega hardware gig to save £6.5m in 2013

Gov: We want cheap police tablets and by God we'll get them

HP loses MoD payroll and pensions deal to CSC

Suppliers finally get contracts for £4bn gov IT shopping centre

Gov CloudStore opens for business

Cumbria County Council: We'll sort our own ICT support, thanks

Cumbria County Council has opted to run its ICT services in-house after failing to agree terms with a third-party provider. The previous seven-year contract with Agilisys, which covered ongoing ICT and business consultancy services, had been due to expire on 1 April. Following a tender process, Computacenter (CC) was confirmed …