Monthly Archive for January, 2008

New MoJ structure

MoJ releases some details of its new structure – NOMS will now look after Prisons and Probabtion in an end-to-end view of offenders.

Rushcliffe and Charnwood shared services

Capita and Liberata on the short list to share IT, Revs and Bens, Finance and HR.

LogicaCMG COO to step down

LogicaCMG COO Jim McKenna will step down in 2008H2 after setting up an outsourcing services division.

e-Government awards

Nice to see one of our members narrowly edge out another member and a sponsor in the Central e-Government excellence: procurement category (9).

Accenture, BEA walk away from ID cards

More suppliers pulling out of the ID card process.

DfT IT project costs

Not a good advertisement for shared services at DfT – that’s quite an overrun.

NAO likes DfT agency e-Government

NAO praises efficiency savings and quality of service across a number of DfT’s agencies.

Local government service contracts

Hazel Blears announces the piloting of service contracts between town halls and local communities. These will allow communities to agree deals and have written guarantees from teh council on services and standards.

Major IT projects in government

An old link, but still useful. Major IT projects in government, those that use biometrics, shared services in HR and Finance.

Atos wins Highways Agency IT outsource

Atos has won a five-year