Showing posts with label procurement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label procurement. Show all posts
10 February 2013

UK Government Fails Its First Big Procurement Test

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As regular readers of Computerworld UK know, the UK government has repeatedly said that it wishes to move on from the past patterns of p...
22 December 2011

UK Government Open Standards: The Great Betrayal of 2012

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Back in February of this year, I wrote about PPN 3/11, a Cabinet Office “Procurement Policy Note - Use of Open Standards when specifying ...
11 August 2011

Why Does Computacenter Fear Openness?

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One of the key recent shifts in government policy has been a move towards openness. But this is not from some deeply-held belief that “it...
09 August 2011

When in Romania...

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Last year, one of the key themes of this blog was the battle over version 2 of the European Interoperability Framework, and its definition o...
02 August 2011

Time to Adopt the Brazilian Model of Public Software?

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A couple of weeks ago, the innocuously-named “Public Administration Committee” of the House of Commons published a rather more surprisingly-...
10 October 2007

No, Minister

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It is - alas - not often that the relative merits of open and closed source get debated in the House of Commons, but yesterday was such a (f...
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04 September 2007

What's (Open) Source for the Goose...

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A report suggesting that the Chinese military has hacked into German government computers could have a negative impact on the prospects in W...