NOTE – Intellect is helping MOD engage industry with the DCNS programme. The following is a direct extract of the most recent Blog from Cdre Jamie Hay RN who is the DCNS Programme Director (more…)

Technorati Tags: Corsham, DCNS, Emporium, Grapevine, ISS, MoD

With just 5 weeks to go until our annual entertainment summit, I talked to summit chair Rory Cellan-Jones to discover what he’s looking forward to most at this year’s event and what he thinks the biggest trends will be over the next 12 months. (more…)

If you had invented a global digital currency which had, it is claimed, 100,000 users world-wide and growing, would you wait for fame and fortune to arrive at your door, or would you simply hand the system over to the users and vanish? If you are Satoshi Nakamoto, inventor of Bit Coin the answer is that you simply vanish, leaving no trace and lettting others grow and develop your open source programme. (more…)

Technorati Tags: Mobile payments; P2P payments; Intellect; Payments Council

Guest blogger: Rob Salter, Category Director of Entertainment, Tesco wrote:

What is the one challenge in the marketplace that is currently pulling your focus?

The most immediate issue is the double digit market decline and a weak release slate, combined with a drive for product and service innovation for the long term future. (more…)

Do people who work in finance speak a different language to entrepreneurs, particularly those who run tech companies? That was a question posed at Intellect’s first SME 2012 conference, raising finance for growth. (more…)

Technorati Tags: finance, funding, growth, intellect, SME

Last week I took a trip to Swansea to visit the DVLA for an SME engagement event that focused on the Agency’s ICT Contract Let Programme and was pleased to run a Concept Viability workshop for them in the afternoon. With its existing ICT contract due to expire in three years the DVLA is looking to move away from a large outsource contract towards a supply chain operating across multiple service towers, and with contracts being held directly with vendors. (more…)

Technorati Tags: Concept Viability, Crown Commercial Representative, Future IT Sourcing, Ministry of Justice, SMEs, Stephen Allott, Tower based model

French president Nicolas Sarkozy has proposed a European law similar to the “Buy American Act” which would require governments to favour European-made products in their procurement, and said that without advances in that area, France would start applying the rule unilaterally. This idea isn’t new and, amusingly enough, it has always come from the socialists. Even in the UK, it is the trade unions that are calling for some sort of protectionism to save British manufacturing. But is this the right way forward? (more…)

Technorati Tags: Europe, industrial policy, manufacturing, UK plc

Please see the link below for the latest Fact Pack for DCNS:

http://www.intellectuk.org/defence-and-security-resources/7815

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I was kindly invited to go along to a government event on 29 February for emerging suppliers, hosted by Ann Pedder (commercial director for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and crown rep for emerging suppliers).  The event featured helpful updates from the MD of the Government Procurement Service, David Shields, and Mr. G-cloud Chris Chant, so I thought I’d pass these along. (more…)

An advert was placed today (29 February) in the OJEU and the MOD Contracts Bulletin seeking expressions of interest for a Strategic Partner to support the delivery of the DCNS Programme. This is the MOD’s ICT Services Acquisition Change Programme that aims to deliver the next generation of contracts for ICT services for the MOD.  (more…)

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