Leeds council could potentially save over 1m Leeds City Council is consulting residents on proposals to turn off street lights at certain times of the night to save 1.3 million over 10 years. The local authority has more than 92,000 ...
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Leeds City Council is consulting residents on proposals to turn off street lights at certain times of the night to save £1.3 million over 10 years. The local authority has more than 92,000 street lights, consuming £4 million ...
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Cornwall Council leader Alec Robertson has lost a confidence vote and will step down over a controversial proposal to outsource shared council services that has split Cornwall Council. Cornwall Council leader Alec Robertson lost the vote ...
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Research into the UK outsourcing sector in 2010 found that 7.4% of the UK’s total production came from outsourcing, and about a third of that – some 38.7bn – was IT outsourcing. It is a sector that adapts to market ...
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Capita has won the race to take over a number of key Barnet Council services in an outsourcing deal valued at GBP 320m over 10 years. The business-process outsourcing specialist will take over the running of the Council's "new support and ...
Barnet council has recommended Capita as its preferred bidder for a £32m-a-year contract to run its back-office services. The 10-year deal would see the outsourcing company operate London Borough of Barnet's new support and customer ...
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Cornwall County Council has voted in support of an IT outsourcing and telehealth partnership with BT after rejecting a controversial plan to privatise a much broader range of council services. After councillors threw out their executive's ...
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Councillors in Barnet will continue to scrutinise a 1bn outsourcing programme, despite the council leader surviving a confidence vote over the issue. The council's leader, Conservative Richard Cornelius, had the support of 32 councillors, ...
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Southwark Council is upgrading all IT that supports the delivery of council services, with the biggest IT changes in over a decade planned. The London local authority has outsourced the upgrade and management of the IT to Capita for 10 ...
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Councillors from Cornwall Council have become concerned that backers of a controversial BT outsourcing deal have been using "undemocratic" tactics to influence councillors ahead of a December vote that will decide its fate once and for all. ...
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Capita looks set to win part of Barnet’s controversial One Barnet outsourcing plan, after it is revealed to be the preferred bidder for a back-office services contract. The contract, worth GBP 32m a year, will see IT and back-office ...
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LONDON, ENGLAND, August 24, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- GeoPlace has announced that it has secured the backing of the Society of IT Management (Socitm), UK Location, the Local Government Association (LGA) and Ordnance Survey, as Award ...
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Barnet Council will cut 70%of staff from the back-office functions it is outsourcing to Capita in a controversial deal to automate council services. The London borough's Cabinet is expected to approve the deal in a vote this evening,that ...
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Barnet council has recommended Capita as its preferred bidder for a32m euros-a-year contract to run its back-office services. The 10-year deal would see the outsourcing company operate London Borough of Barnet's new support and customer ...
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Mark Adams-Wright, CIO of Suffolk County Council is a firm believer in making changes to the business gradually. He is overseeing an IT change that is supporting a major transformation in the role of the council – from a provider of ...
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