consortia
RSS consortia£400m 'biometric borders' bidders revealed
News Two consortia, led by BT and Raytheon, have now been shortlisted for the contract, which is due to be awarded in the summer of 2007. BT and Raytheon will fight it out for the government's £400m e-Borders contract to build a system that will... [06 Nov 2006]
O2 pulls out of €100m police radio network bidding
News O2 had been tipped to pitch its Airwave service against four other consortia led by Arqiva, BT, Eircom and Rivada Networks for the lucrative National Digital Radio Service (NDRS) contract to replace ageing analogue radio systems for the Garda... [04 Jul 2006]
O2 in race to build €100m Irish police radio network
News Two other consortia reported to be in the frame for the deal are Arqiva and Galway-owned Rivada Networks. O2 is up against BT and Eircom in the battle to win a contract to build a €100m secure digital radio network for the Irish police, fire and... [03 Jul 2006]
Adobe Systems Case Study: West Midlands Broadband Consortium
White Paper The West Midlands Broadband Consortium (WMnet) is one of England's ten Regional Broadband Consortia. WMnet is tasked with promoting the use of broadband for best learning practice within schools across a wide area and oversees the project... [13 Jun 2006]
Cooperative Strategies in the Standardization of Wireless Telecommunications
White Paper A special focus is on firms' cooperation activities outside of 3GPP, particularly in industry consortia and fora. This paper explores firms' cooperative standard-setting strategies in wireless telecommunications through a quantitative paper of the... [24 May 2006]
The Case for Peer-to-Peer Wireless LAN Consortia
White Paper This paper presents the case for Consortia of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN). A P2P WLAN Consortium (PWC) is a community of WLAN Administrative Domains (ADs) that offer network access to each other's registered users. [16 Feb 2006]
Services Integration Monitor for Collaborative Workflow Management
White Paper This paper deals with change management of collaborative workflow in such consortia and proposes architecture for synchronization and monitoring of these services where existing workflow systems are adapted to the changes requested by management. [14 Dec 2005]
Grids and anti-terror bio-sensors get funding boost
News Projects range in size from £1.5m up to £4.4m with between four and 11 collaborators in each consortia. Grid computing in healthcare and anti-terrorist bio-sensors are some of the innovative projects taking part in a £90million government funding... [25 Nov 2005]
Digital Maps: An Essential Part of Every Citizen's Interface to the NII
White Paper By participating as technology users in industry consortia (such as OGC) that include users in technology planning and specification efforts, government agencies can ensure that the technology provider community meets agency needs and influence... [01 Sep 2005]
Converting Distance Learning Networks to a High Bandwidth, Flexible Infrastructure
White Paper The staff of the Nebraska Information Technology Commission and the members of the Collaborative Aggregation Partnership (CAP) have drafted this white paper in an attempt to communicate the history, challenges and future facing a majority of... [01 Sep 2005]
London transport targets Oyster 'e-money' trials in 2005
News The shortlist of companies and consortia invited to negotiate with TfL are alphyra; Barclays; BBVA, Accenture, MTR and Octopus; EDS and JP Morgan; Nucleus, Dexit, Ericsson, Hutchison 3G and Euroconex; PayPal; and Royal Bank of Scotland. [21 Jul 2005]
Capita and IBM make £500m Birmingham shortlist
News Birmingham City Council has shortlisted two consortia led by Capita and IBM as the preferred bidders for a strategic 15-year IT outsourcing partnership worth more than £500m. Birmingham is looking to overhaul its IT systems and practices to... [30 Jun 2005]
Universities seek PC suppliers for £150m contract
News The contract - the Higher Education Consortia Inter-Regional Desktop Agreement for PC Equipment - looks to set up a framework agreement for the supply of desktop PC equipment and on-site managed services. [17 Jun 2005]
e-Procurement Systems: Beyond Indirect Procurement
White Paper Buying consortia are being formed. Procurement and supply chain managers have an exciting but daunting opportunity to use e-business to alter the supply function. Procurement processes, as well as applications, are being outsourced. [29 Apr 2005]
Leader: EDS back in spotlight with £4bn MoD deal
Leader Certainly the tough penalties and service level agreements imposed by the MoD proved too much for two other consortia - most notably one led by Lockheed Martin, which said it could not justify it commercially to its shareholders and dropped out. [02 Mar 2005]
