government procurement

Andy Burnham’s arrival in Downing Street has turned UK public-sector technology from a policy continuity story into a live procurement risk—and potentially a major opportunity for channel partners able to adapt quickly. His decision to abandon the national digital ID programme within days of...

New Zealand’s public sector has effectively standardised on Microsoft Copilot as its default artificial intelligence tool in 2025 and 2026 because agencies already buy Microsoft 365, making Copilot an add-on rather than a freshly contested procurement decision. That is the quiet power of...

The U.S. Senate has quietly given the green light for frontline aides to use three commercial AI chatbots for official work: OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini chat, and Microsoft’s Copilot, according to a one‑page memo circulated by the Senate sergeant‑at‑arms’ information technology office. The...

Microsoft’s move to publicly line up behind Anthropic’s legal challenge against the Pentagon marks a rare — and dangerous — collision between national security procurement power and the commercial AI ecosystem, and it raises urgent questions about how governments should manage emerging...

The leaked files published this week show that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement dramatically increased its use of Microsoft’s Azure cloud during the second half of 2025 — more than tripling stored volumes on Azure in six months and expanding the agency’s consumption of Microsoft...

Estonia’s state IT centre is quietly running two contradictory but complementary bets at once: a fast, pragmatic migration of tens of thousands of government desktops into a centrally managed Microsoft-based workplace cloud, and a parallel program to prototype Europe-only alternatives that could...