The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee is warning that the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) IT systems are outdated, inefficient, expensive and at constant risk of failure or cyber-attack. 

NI Water is looking for input from the supply chain in its quest to find a Microsoft 365 transformation and delivery partner.

The complex computer systems which control London’s drinking water supplies have been upgraded while keeping the taps running in a “monumental” £20 million project by Thames Water.

Yorkshire Water has gone out to tender with an AMP7 contract for end user computing and servers worth an estimated £22.7 million-plus in total. 

Thames Water has awarded a number of AMP7 contracts for information technology and consultancy services – value of the framework was put at an estimated £100 million when the utility went out to tender.

The digital workplace strategy Affinity Water put in place from 2018/2019  has come into its own - over 800 Affinity Water staff are now working from home to keep vital services running during the Coronavirus lockdown.

United Utilities has gone out to tender with a contract for complex multi technology IT and digital services with an estimated total value of £56 million.

Southern Water has gone out to tender with an IT software and hardware reseller framework contract worth up to an estimated £60 million in total.

The Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs has awarded a contract for IT services under the Defra UnITy Programme to Atos IT Services UK Ltd worth an estimated £135 million in total.

Yorkshire Water gathered the finest minds in data for its first solveIT hackathon event as the firm ramps up its plans to proactively prevent flooding and pollution incidents.