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New hospitals award £68m voice and data contract

News A £361m PFI joint venture to build the hospitals, headed up by John Laing, has awarded the £67.6m contract over 37 years to systems integrator Affiniti.silicon.com Public Sector University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust and Stoke-on...

Tags: hospital, mobile, nhs, pfi

[26 Jun 2007]

A litany of disasters has made shared services easy to swallow

Comment Well, news broke earlier this year that private companies stand to reap profits of £3.3bn from the government's controversial PFI initiatives, which understandably got the hackles of taxpayers up. Addleshaw Goddard's Paul Bentham explains how the...

Tags: procurement, pfi, nhs, varney

[20 Jun 2007]

Meeting the Data Security and Privacy Challenge: Best Practices for Securing Your Message Streams

whitepaper New, advanced technologies that can help you easily identify non-public information including PHI (protected health information as defined by HIPAA) and PFI (personal financial information as defined by GLBA) in outgoing message streams.

Tags: infrastructure management, message, privacy, regulations

[05 Nov 2006]

Securing the Financial Services Firm With Essential Taceo

whitepaper Essential Taceo for the SMB Financial Services firm ameliorates much of the mammoth costs associated with safeguarding the clientele's Personal Financial Information (PFI) and being industry compliant.

Tags: sarbanes-oxley, financial services, email, personal financial

[14 Sep 2006]

£500m Libra courts IT project fiasco

News The original cost of the project - awarded to ICL, now Fujitsu Services, as a 10-year PFI deal starting back in 1998 - was £184m. The cost of Libra, the project to modernise the IT used by the UK's magistrates' courts, has increased again.

Tags: libra, dca

[22 Jun 2006]

7/7 bomb rescue efforts hampered by communication failings

News The report said the 20-year timeframe for the completion of TfL's £2bn PFI project for the rollout of a digital radio system underground on the tube needs to be "significantly reduced" and a feasibility study undertaken to assess potential interim...

Tags: bombings, london assembly

[05 Jun 2006]

ID cards to be used for criminal record checks

News Some of these developments will require changes to the CRB's £400m PFI contract with Capita, which runs until 2012. The Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) has outlined initial plans for integrating ID cards into the criminal record vetting process as...

Tags: crb, id cards

[23 May 2006]

PFI projects on the up

News The number of private finance initiative (PFI) contracts signed in the UK - many for large projects with IT at their core - is set to increase. Research out from IFSL (formerly British Invisibles) shows that by the end of last year, 780 PFI...

Tags: pfi

[24 Apr 2006]

Delayed national MOT database finally completed

News The Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (Vosa) awarded the 10-year £230m private finance initiative (PFI) contract to Siemens Business Services (SBS) back in 2000 with the aim of rolling out the system to garages from May 2002 but faults...

Tags: mot, vosa, dvla

[07 Apr 2006]

Photos: MOT database targets illegal cars

Photo The 10-year £230m private finance initiative (PFI) contract was awarded by the Vehicle & Operator Services Agency (Vosa) to Siemens Business Services (SBS) in 2000. The MOT computerisation project is the single biggest change to the testing scheme...

Tags: mot, vosa, dvla

[07 Apr 2006]

Protecting Your Personal Financial Information (PFI)

whitepaper Personal Financial Information (PFI) can be compromised as a one-on-one relationship with your financial services professional grows and builds. It's the security of email communication between client and firm/organization where your PFI is put at...

Tags: financial services, email, client, connecting

[23 Mar 2006]

UK motorways to get £490m PFI telecoms upgrade

News The Highways Agency (HA) has signed a £490m private finance initiative (PFI) deal to upgrade the telecommunications network that links all the information systems across the UK road network. The single national PFI deal has been won by a Fluor-led...

Tags: nrts, motorways, highways agency, ha

[19 Sep 2005]

MOT computerisation <strong>PFI</strong> project delayed again

MOT computerisation PFI project delayed again

News The Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (Vosa) awarded the 10-year £230m private finance initiative (PFI) computerisation contract to Siemens Business Services back in 2000. Tait said SBS' costs had increased under the terms of the PFI contract as...

Tags: pfi, mot

[22 Jun 2005]

Conwy County Borough Council - The Three Schools Private Finance Initiative Project

whitepaper Given the limited capital resources available, the council decided to explore the PFI route as a means of improving its assets. The project is one of the largest local government PFI Projects in Wales to date.

Tags: procurement and sourcing, assets, pfi, council

[28 Apr 2005]

Faster Procurement: Procurement Process Study Report

whitepaper The annexes include two critical path (CP) diagrams to illustrate the activities required for a procurement using the Negotiated Procedure for an IT-enabled project and for a Construction PFI project.

Tags: procurement and sourcing, projects, construction, procurement

[28 Apr 2005]

Computer glitch crashes Tube's Oyster card network

Computer glitch crashes Tube's Oyster card network

News Oyster cards were introduced in 2003 with the £1.2bn PFI contract going to the EDS-led Transys consortium, which also includes Cubic Transportation Systems. London Underground is investigating the cause of a computer glitch that caused its Oyster...

[10 Mar 2005]

Atos Orgin gets nod for £200m immigration IT deal

Atos Orgin gets nod for £200m immigration IT deal

News SBS has had a somewhat patchy record with the IND and the government laid the blame for a backlog of visa applications on the German company's problems implementing a £77m PFI casework system. The Home Office has ditched Siemens Business Services...

[10 Aug 2004]

MPs hammer Customs for failure to control IT spending

News It is also committed to spend an additional £250m enhancing its IT infrastructure under a PFI contract with Fujitsu. The department's IT structure was taken over by then national champion computer company ICL in 2000 under a PFI deal.

[22 Jun 2004]

Met Office unveils new supercomputers

News Work on the office's new headquarters in Exeter began in 2001, in a PFI deal worth £150m over 17 years. The Meteorological Office today showed off its shiny new supercomputers and headquarters to celebrate its 150th anniversary.

[21 Jun 2004]

MPs slam spiralling IT costs of new GCHQ spy centre

MPs slam spiralling IT costs of new GCHQ spy centre

News MPs have slammed the government's PFI deal for the new GCHQ spy headquarters after it was revealed IT costs rose tenfold from £41m to £450m. The transfer of GCHQ to its purpose-built 'doughnut' listening post building in Cheltenham took place last...

[15 Jun 2004]

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