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Boris Johnson helps inject £22m into start-up scene

Fund manager and investor MMC Ventures has won a competitive tender to launch the MMC London Fund, wFund manager and investor MMC Ventures has won a competitive tender to launch the MMC London Fund, which will see £22 million ploughed into London based start-ups. hich will see £22 million ploughed into London based start-ups. read more »

British library and partners launch project to store UK web content

Six libraries in the UK, including the British Library in London, will start collecting, preserving and providing long term access to the nation’s digital output – including blogs, e-books and the entire UK web domain. read more »

Digitising Lloyd George health records could save NHS millions, claims Trust

St Helens & Knowsley Health Informatics Service (StHK) has launched a new managed service to help GPs digitise and access their aging Lloyd George files, which could pave the way for the NHS to save tens of millions of pounds through reduced administration. read more »

Tri-Borough London authorities plan £1.1bn ICT services framework

The City of Westminster, Hammersmith & Fulham and Kensington & Chelsea are planning to consolidate the provision of some of its ICT services into a framework that could see the tri-borough area and other councils spend up to £1.1 billion over a four year period. read more »

Lincolnshire details £210m outsourcing deal expected for 2015

Lincolnshire County Council has outlined plans for an outsourcing deal ,worth an estimated £210 million, which will see a number of partners provide it with a range of business services that include ICT infrastructure, management of software applications, implementation of an ERP system, provision of data and voice networks and server management. read more »

East Cheshire NHS Trust awards shared service centre contract to arvato

East Cheshire NHS Trust has awarded a four year, single supplier framework contract to arvato to acquire and operate its HR service provider, Cheshire HR Service. read more »

Universal Credit IT system vulnerable to fraud, warn MPs

MPs have warned that the implementation of Universal Credit could leave the public sector ‘vulnerable to fraud’, as concerns are raised about detection systems still being in the early stages of development, despite the national rollout beginning this year. read more »

Government plans second shared service centre worth £2bn

The Cabinet Office is searching for a private sector partner to take up to a 75 percent stake in its second of two independent shared services centres, in a contract that is worth up to £2 billion and will see a range of business services delivered to various government departments and public sector bodies. read more »

DWP hires Olympics construction director to head up Universal Credit

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has hired Howard Shiplee, executive director at construction company Laing O’Rourke, to lead delivery on the troubled Universal Credit programme. read more »

Universal Credit in the spotlight again as pilot timetable changes

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has said that only one of the four planned pilot areas for its high profile welfare reform project, Universal Credit, will go live in April as planned, once again raising questions about the success of the implementation so far. read more »