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RSS ODPMSteria bags £30m IT deal with Prescott's ODPM
News The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) has signed a £30m IT outsourcing contract with Steria that will see the implementation of a new IT platform aimed at improving efficiency and cutting costs. [20 Feb 2006]
Three per cent of local authorities to miss e-gov deadline
News Local authorities will be 97 per cent e-enabled by the end of year, according to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) - three percentage points short of the targets set out at the beginning of 2005. [22 Dec 2005]
Will councils hit e-government deadlines?
News Setting the deadline is the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM). The ODPM wouldn't be drawn on what happens to councils that miss the targets. According to the ODPM, the average... [01 Dec 2005]
Norwich given £500k to evaluate e-citizen needs
News This is in addition to the £2.5m the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) gave Norwich City Council (NCC) earlier in the year to research what people want from e-government, an initiative dubbed the e-citizen... [26 Oct 2005]
Voca jumps into council savings gambit
News Voca, formally known as Bacs, has teamed up with the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) and will work with councils to help them meet savings targets set last year. The Yorkshire and Humberside Regional Centre of... [21 Oct 2005]
Local e-government funding cut down to size
News As part of pre-planned cuts, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) is to cut funds from £150m to £7m at the end of this year, as most projects are supposed to be finished by then. A spokeswoman for the... [23 Sep 2005]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Public sector goes mobile
Comment The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) has allocated £4m to Project Nomad, with the aim of providing a central repository of information and assistance for local authorities to develop mobile solutions. [09 Sep 2005]
E-voting tech trials ditched by government
News The e-voting trials were due to kick off in 2006 as part of a two-year electoral modernisation project being run by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) but a tender inviting bids from IT suppliers to run the... [02 Sep 2005]
Councils rush to implement CRM
News Councils are struggling to implement technology to improve business processes as deadlines set by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) loom next year. The report said that although work is underway, much more... [02 Sep 2005]
Billion-pound Fire Service modernisation row re-ignites
News The £1bn FireControl project is being run by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) and will see 46 local fire service operations rooms replaced with nine regional high-tech control centres. But the... [26 Aug 2005]
Will UK meet e-government targets?
News Just last week, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) claimed that 166 councils are on track to beat efficiency targets. More than two-thirds of silicon.com readers have seen no change in the way their local... [15 Aug 2005]
£100m in uncollected council tax targeted
News Mid-Sussex District Council is leading a project that the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) claims will, when rolled out nationally, bring in £100m per year in currently unpaid council tax. According to the... [08 Aug 2005]
Bracknell Forest Borough Council - Procurement Strategy 2005
White Paper This paper represents the first full review of the Procurement Strategy in the light of the ODPM initiative and incorporates changes to demonstrate the Council's commitment to the national initiative. [17 Jun 2005]
Deputy PM starts £65m outsourcing hunt
News The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) is looking for an outsourcer to take on the operation, maintenance, modernisation and refreshment of its desktop and supporting IT infrastructure in a deal worth £35m. [15 Jun 2005]
Fire service strike threat over £1bn high-tech control rooms
News The nine regional centres are scheduled to be up and running by the middle of 2008 as part of the FireControl project being run by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM). The ODPM says benefits... [16 May 2005]
