The Federal Government has announced the appointment an automotive industry advocate whose primary task is to increase the number of Australian-made cars in local fleets. Former president of Ford Indonesia and past Ford Australia employee ...
Tags: Australia, Federal Government, automotive industry, vehicles, car
The Eastern European nation of Belarus will resume supplying fabrics to Russian Government departments, as the Eurasian Economic Commission has lifted the restrictions imposed by it on Belarusian fabrics. In March 2012, the Russian ...
Tags: fabric, textile manufacturers, garment manufacturers, fabric industry
Government IT is no longer in a "19th century" state, but there's still much work to be done especially when it comes to G-Cloud. That's the view of the programme's director and director of Home Office IT, Denise McDonagh, who was ...
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The nascent but burgeoning Indian technical textiles industry will get a pride of place at the one of the most awaited biennial trade events in India – “The Vibrant Gujarat Global Trade Show 2013” to be held between ...
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The University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust is looking for a supplier or suppliers for new IT hardware in an agreement worth between 50m euros and 100m euros. Acting as an agent for the Trust,group purchasing ...
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British beef and lamb will return to Russian dinner plates after Russian authorities finally said yes to exports after agreeing to lift their 16-year ban. Russia banned British beef imports in the wake of the 1996 Bovine Spongiform ...
The NHS Commissioning Board is looking to use multiple secure email providers via the government’s G-Cloud framework. The move would be the largest deal yet to go through G-Cloud, pushing many millions of pounds through the ...
Tags: NHS anticipates, G-Cloud, secure email services, Denise McDonagh
Spectrum in the UK contributes £52bn to the economy, according to research carried out by Analysys Mason on behalf of two government departments – the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and the Department for ...
Tags: spectrum, property, public mobile communications, finite resource
Government bodies must now comply with Open Standard Principles for IT, minister for the Cabinet Office Francis Maude has announced. The Open Standard Principles are an agreed set of standards designed to make government IT more open, ...
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After a lengthy and often heated consultation, the government has finally released its new open standards principles intended to level the supplier playing field and avoid product lock-in. But is the document a blueprint for a radically ...
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Whitehall has launched its long-awaited response to the open standards consultation, which will force government bodies to comply with its list of "Open Standards Principles" when purchasing technology. Departments must use the principles ...
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The government is to test the feasibility of moving to a single enterprise resource planning(ERP)platform across Whitehall. In a GBP100,000,four-month tender as part of the Next Generation Shared Services programme,the government said it ...
Tags: single ERP, Services programme, emergency services, Oracle
(China Glass Network) To support the Chinese industry that be faced with financial strain, Grid-tied difficulty, anti-dumping and countervailing investigation launched by the U.S, government departments of China are preparing to introduce a ...
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Enterprise cloud computing firm Salesforce.com has joined the UK government's G-Cloud framework, the cross-departmental initiative focused on introducing cloud computing across the public sector. It means government organisations can now ...
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The government's second G-Cloud framework has gone live,with twice the number of original suppliers. Of the 458 suppliers on the 12-month framework,which allows public sector bodies to buy on demand IT services,three-quarters are small ...
Tags: government, second G-Cloud framework, UK, double number of suppliers