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News Glasgow City Council is teaming up with Serco in a £265m joint venture outsourcing deal to transform IT and property services in the city. The city council and Serco have formed a private company to run the council's IT and property services in a... [19 Feb 2008]
Sussex Council outsources desktop role
News West Sussex County Council (WSCC) has signed a £14m desktop contract with services company Serco. The council will also work with Serco to offer a shared service to other councils, agencies and partners across the region. [13 Feb 2008]
Businesses tackle laptop theft data security risks
News An exclusive investigation by silicon.com earlier this month revealed a sharp rise in the number of laptops stolen in the UK, while in recent months organisations such as Marks & Spencer, the Metropolitan Police, the Nationwide building society... [15 May 2007]
Exclusive: How safe is your laptop?
News In recent months organisations such as Marks & Spencer, the Nationwide building society, the Metropolitan Police and Worcestershire County Council and Serco have been among those left exposed by laptop thefts - and the problem is only getting worse. [08 May 2007]
Southwark signs £26m outsourcing contract
News The London Borough of Southwark has signed a five-year, £26m outsourcing deal with services company Serco. Under the agreement, Serco will manage the council's IT infrastructure remotely. Southwark has outsourced its IT since 1995 and this contract... [19 Mar 2007]
CEOs: Understand IT better - or else
News The research was published in partnership with BT, Deloitte and Serco. CEOs cannot afford to pass the buck on transformational change driven by IT - a legacy of failed IT projects and wasted investment should tell them as much. [05 Mar 2007]
£400m 'biometric borders' bidders revealed
News The Trusted Borders team is led by Raytheon and contains Accenture, Capgemini, Detica, Qinetiq, Serco and Steria. BT and Raytheon will fight it out for the government's £400m e-Borders contract to build a system that will automatically assess the... [06 Nov 2006]
Atos Origin lands £46.7m Government Gateway deal
News The government had originally planned to create a single data centre to join up the three building blocks of the UK's e-government push - the Government Gateway, the information-sharing Knowledge Network, and the content management system... [20 Sep 2006]
Serco to cut 170 jobs
News IT services company Serco is cutting around 170 jobs as part of a company-wide restructuring plan. The job cuts come despite Serco boosting revenues by 38 per cent to £2.26bn and profits by 22 per cent to £77.9m for the financial year ended 31... [30 May 2006]
£30m council outsourcing deal up for grabs
News Southwark has outsourced its IT since 1995 and the new contract will replace a seven-year deal worth around £35m signed in 2001 with ITNet, now part of IT services company Serco. The London Borough of Southwark is to outsource its IT operations in... [03 Feb 2006]
Navy sinks £100m into battleship combat training system
News Prime contractor BAE Systems Insyte has formed the Seabridge consortium, which is composed of Aerosystems International, EDS, MDA and Serco. The Royal Navy is spending £100m on a computerised training system to prepare sailors serving on aircraft... [17 Jan 2006]
Capita beats IBM to £424m Birmingham IT deal
News Birmingham's existing IT suppliers include Serco, which recently bought ITNet. Capita has beaten IBM to a massive IT services contract with Birmingham City Council worth £424m over the next ten years. [05 Dec 2005]
£125m web portal push helps SMEs cut red tape
News Serco has been selected as prime contractor to provide the UK government with web-based information services for small businesses. Serco Group CEO Christopher Hyman said in a statement: "The Small Business Service is a government flagship service... [07 Nov 2005]
Digital pens write "the end" for paper
News The Greenwich trial with IT supplier Serco used technology from Ubiquitous Systems, Nokia and Corelogic. The public sector is declaring war on paper as it tries to make services more efficient by cutting the need to re-enter data. [03 Nov 2005]
Photos: Digital pens the end of paper?
Photo Photo: Serco Photo: Serco Digital pens are starting to take off in the public sector. As well as writing in ink the pens also digitally capture the information. Greenwich social workers say the pens fit in with their normal working patterns and don... [03 Nov 2005]
