It's time to take a hard look at the recent decision by HMRC to extend its contract with Capgemini for legacy system maintenance. The de...

HMRC is offering an annual salary of £96K for an assistant commercial director - IT contract management, to oversee its engagements wit...

As loyal readers know, HMRC is doing away with its Aspire contract in favour of shorter contracts with a wider range of suppliers. In o...

As part of its bold new digital vision, HMRC has finally reached an agreement with its major IT suppliers (Capgemini and Fujitsu) HMRC ...

HMRC recently launched a £20M tender for consulting firms to guide its IT department. HMRC wants increased control over projects, as w...

HMRC is apparently on the cusp of creating a new organisation which will take over responsibility for IT work previously outsourced to p...

As loyal readers know, HMRC's Aspire contract is regularly given a sound and well deserved kicking by various organs (eg NAO ). Thi...

The Times today warns that HMRC's Aspire contract, the country’s biggest IT contract, is heading for disaster under coalition plans ...

As loyal readers know, I have on occasions written about HMRC's Aspire contract; eg in August 2013 I wrote: " HMRC has spent o...

In August Mark Hall, HMRC's outgoing Chief Information Officer (CIO) gave his incoming replacement (Mark Dearnley) some advice ab...

HMRC has spent over £3.7BN with Capgemini over the last five years on the Aspire contract. The contract was originally valued at £2.8BN . ...

It seems that HMRC is rethinking its approach to IT, or rather more specifically its approach to outsourcing its IT development. Computer ...

My thanks to a loyal reader who pointed us to a rather interesting article in Private Eye, that exposes the hypocrisy of the government/...

My compliments to Phil Pavitt (Chief Information Officer of HMRC), who is now rather ubiquitous in the media and is currently outshining L...

In July 2011 I wrote the following : " The Guardian reports that the government is paying up to 10 times more for IT projects than...

Changing some of HMRC's strategies, policies and long term contracts with suppliers seems at times equivalent to trying to divert the c...

The Guardian reports that the government is paying up to 10 times more for IT projects than the standard commercial rate. The public admini...

As we all know HMRC has had a few problems (eg cost overruns, project delays, technical glitches, data loss etc) wrt its Information and Com...

Earlier this month a loyal reader sent me a link to an article about a potential security flaw within the HMRC website, that may allow phis...

As the online filing deadline of 31 January looms ever larger on the horizon, some taxpayers and their agents who file online are experienci...