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BCS - BCS highlights successful public sector IT projects
(BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, promotes wider social and economic progress through the advancement of information technology science and practice.)
The NHS, school dinners and the railways are just some of the public sector areas where award-winning IT programmes are being showcased as examples of successful public sector IT projects in a new online booklet called ‘Success - Public Sector IT Projects’ from BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT.
Public sector IT projects rarely feature in positive headlines but the Institute is railing against this trend and hopes to highlight how successful IT projects often underpin key areas of our society. Each of the organisations involved were finalists in the 2010 BCS UK IT Industry Awards, recognised as the benchmark for excellence in the profession.
Projects included are: The PSBA Network – PSBA: The UK’s first public sector shared services network
The full PDF booklet, Success - Public Sector IT Projects, can be found by clicking the following link: http://www.bcs.org/upload/pdf/awards11-case-study.pdf
Analysys Mason - Analysys Mason welcomes the McClelland Review’s drive for better value in Scottish public sector’s ICT
The Scottish Government today issued John McClelland’s Review of ICT Infrastructure in the Public Sector in Scotland. Analysys Mason has welcomed the review which recommends how best to deliver improved value for money, and how to support multi-agency working and shared services within the public sector in Scotland.
One of the key recommendations of the McClelland Review is to “build a single Scottish Public Sector Network that adopts the standards and protocols of the UK PSN1”. The UK PSN programme, driven by the Cabinet Office, aims to generate up to GBP500 million savings per year by 2014, by driving competitive pricing and cost reductions, and by streamlining frameworks and standard procurement practice2.
Bedi believes the opportunity exists to achieve this in Scotland: “The successful Public Sector Broadband Aggregation (PSBA) project in Wales was driven by the coincidental expiry of several health and local authority ICT network contracts at a similar time. As challenging as it may seem, the inevitable re-procurement of the NHS and Pathfinder networks – due for contract renewal in 2014 – presents an ideal opportunity to consider a Scottish PSN.”
(Link to the John McClelland’s Review of ICT Infrastructure in the Public Sector in Scotland)
BAPCO Journal - Largest multi-agency multi-sector group on a next-generation PSN in the UK
Eight organisations across councils, health services, police forces and further education colleges in Gwent choose PSBA as their secure, shared service public sector communications network.
Aneurin Bevan Health Board, Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council, Caerphilly County Borough Council, Coleg Gwent, Gwent Police Authority, Monmouthshire County Council, Newport City Council and Torfaen County Borough Council have worked together to jointly design and develop the Gwent Network Neighbourhood Design (GNND).
Led by the Welsh Assembly Government, PSBA is the UK’s first public cross-sector shared services network, and is managed and funded by the user organisations. PSBA is delivered as a managed service by Logicalis UK as part of a seven year contract with the Welsh Assembly Government