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News In the Cabinet Office building on Whitehall, the modern foyer soon gives way to older tiled corridors and offices looking out into Admiralty Arch and Horse Guards' Parade. Recently the Cabinet Office has embraced shared back-office services under... [25 Oct 2007]
Cabinet Office website has some downtime
News The Cabinet Office website was forced offline on Wednesday because of technical problems, the government has admitted. A Cabinet Office spokesperson said the site was offline due to "maintenance being carried out by our ISP", which is understood to... [02 Dec 2005]
Cabinet Office flexes £32m contract muscle
News The Cabinet Office has signed a £32m, five-year shared services deal with Fujitsu. The service, called Public Sector Flex, will enable the Cabinet Office to act as a purchasing authority and offer a shared service to multiple public sector... [21 Jun 2007]
Cabinet Office damning in rejection of ITNet
News The Cabinet Office has fleshed out why it has severed its contract with ITNet for a range of key government contracts, pulling few punches. While ITNet has had success with local contract deals, the Cabinet Office contract, signed last July, was... [30 Jun 2004]
ITNet bumped from £83m Cabinet Office deal
News The Cabinet Office has ditched ITNet as the provider of hosting and management of three main building blocks of the UK's e-government push. Last July, when ITNet was awarded the Cabinet Office 'True North' project, it was the last of several... [29 Jun 2004]
Man charged over stolen Cabinet Office laptop
News Police have charged a man with theft after he allegedly stole a laptop from the Cabinet Office on Monday, according to Scotland Yard. The government has admitted that a total of three laptops have been stolen from the Cabinet Office and three more... [31 Jul 2003]
YouTube blunder: Egg on face for Cabinet Office
News The UK cabinet Office has been forced to pull one of the public service videos it published on YouTube due to copyright violation. COI Television is actually part of the Cabinet Office and the further irony of the video being about transformational... [29 Aug 2006]
ITNet wins £83m Cabinet Office deal
News The move is described by the Cabinet Office as being "cost-effective" and replaces the separate agreements C&W and Loudcloud. Douglas Alexander, minister for e-transformation at the Cabinet Office, said in a statement: "The Government has a target... [28 Jul 2003]
UK Cabinet Office announces £15m IT modernisation plan
News The UK Cabinet Office will spend £15m over the next five years on a project to modernise its IT infrastructure. Compaq - the incumbent supplier for the last three years - will install a network and provide on-site management of the Cabinet Office's... [20 Mar 2000]
Shared services 'about more than cost savings'
News As a first move, Watmore said the Cabinet Office will join services with another big department as an example and the hope is that the rest of Whitehall will follow the departments' lead. In the case of the Cabinet Office, if it were to merge back... [30 Apr 2007]
MPs build £2m security awareness website
News The Cabinet Office is building getsafeonline.org.uk - a security awareness website that has already been backed by the likes of eBay, Dell, HSBC, LloydsTSB, MessageLabs and Microsoft. The companies have all donated £150,000 to match the Cabinet... [08 Aug 2005]
E-envoy role creates government rift
News According to sources close to the situation, the office of the e-envoy, which is under the aegis of the Cabinet Office, is unhappy about plans to restrict the scope of the job to implementing e-government intiatives. [06 Dec 2000]
Behind the Headlines: the e-envoy post-mortem
News On this week's Behind the Headlines, silicon.com's studio guests evaluated a recent report from the Cabinet Office's Performance and Innovation Unit, which found that only 32 per cent of online government agencies offered the public an interactive... [15 Sep 2000]
E-envoy wannabes jostle for pole position
News The Cabinet Office is remaining tight-lipped over who is likely to get the job. They are Ann Steward, currently director of e-government for the Cabinet Office, and Margaret Smith, director of business technology and delivery for Legal & General. [12 Sep 2000]
Government email deletion under scrutiny
News The Office of the Information Commissioner is investigating the Cabinet Office for deleting millions of emails days before they would be made available to the public. The government watchdog said on Wednesday it would look 'unfavourably' on the... [23 Dec 2004]
