procurement

Deloitte has agreed to repay the final instalment of a roughly AU$439,000 consultancy contract after an independent assurance report it delivered to Australia’s Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR) was found to contain fabricated citations, mis‑attributed quotes and other...

Logically’s LogicON 2025 keynote revealed a deliberate three‑pronged push to reposition the company from a traditional MSP into what it calls a NextGen Service Provider—announcing an UpSkill Academy training partnership, a 24/7 eCommerce procurement portal named MyShop, and a new Managed AI...

A fresh telemetry snapshot from remote‑support sessions underscores a stark reality: as Microsoft’s Windows 10 support deadline approaches, a large share of real‑world endpoints remain on an OS that will soon stop receiving routine security patches—creating an urgent migration and...

ZainTECH’s new ExpressRoute listing on the Azure Marketplace marks a practical turning point for Kuwait’s cloud strategy: by packaging private, low‑latency links to Microsoft Azure as a Marketplace SKU, ZainTECH — together with Zain Kuwait, Zain Omantel International (ZOI) and Microsoft — has...

ZainTECH’s new alliance with Zain Kuwait, ZOI and Microsoft signals a major push to accelerate government digital transformation in Kuwait, but the deal as announced blends concrete technical commitments with broad strategic intent — and success will hinge on timelines, service availability...

Companies across multiple industries are now treating renewals as strategic decisions rather than routine administrative housekeeping — and that shift is lengthening negotiation cycles, concentrating risk in sectors exposed to commodity prices and trade policy while leaving banks and many...

Grand Traverse County’s commissioners are poised to approve a coordinated set of technology and facilities moves that together mark a deliberate shift toward cloud-first operations and early, managed adoption of generative AI — actions driven by last year’s ransomware disruption, practical...

Orange County’s IT shop has opened a formal conversation about moving major workloads off Microsoft Azure, issuing a Request for Information (RFI) that explicitly asks the market how to migrate applications, virtual machines, storage, databases and networking from Azure to another cloud — a move...

Artificial intelligence has moved from boardroom buzzword to an operational imperative, yet many organisations remain stalled at the starting line — frozen by cost fears, data readiness questions and governance uncertainty — a gap that demands a practical, measurable path from enthusiasm to...

The Office of Personnel Management has quietly opened the federal doors to mainstream generative AI by making Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat and OpenAI’s ChatGPT available to its workforce — a move that follows a string of rapid OneGov procurement deals and the launch of GSA’s USAi sandbox, and that...

The U.S. House of Representatives has moved from prohibition to experimentation with generative AI: leadership announced a managed, year‑long pilot that will place Microsoft’s Copilot assistant inside House systems and issue up to 6,000 one‑year licenses to staff—an institutional test with...

Ottawa’s recent disclosure that the federal government has spent nearly $1.3 billion on cloud services from U.S. providers since 2021 — with more than a billion of that directed to Microsoft and portions of that budget underpinning what the Department of National Defence calls “mission‑critical”...

Built for speed and ready to scale, the push toward Windows 11 Pro devices—especially Copilot+ systems and Intel vPro® machines powered by Intel® Core™ Ultra—is no longer marketing fluff: it’s the practical backbone of a modern, hybrid SMB strategy that combines measurable performance gains, new...

Visionet’s elevation to Star Performer and placement as a Major Contender in Everest Group’s Microsoft Business Applications Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2025 signals a clear acceleration in the company’s Microsoft Dynamics 365 practice and a broader competitive shift among mid-tier systems...

Microsoft’s decision to stop servicing Windows 10 in mid‑October has turned a calendar item into an operational crisis for many business process outsourcing (BPO) firms — a sector that runs large, tightly controlled desktop estates and handles regulated, high‑value customer data. The technical...

The U.S. House of Representatives has quietly — but decisively — reversed last year’s prohibition on Microsoft’s Copilot AI for congressional staffers, launching a controlled pilot that will provide up to 6,000 licenses for Microsoft 365 Copilot and make a lighter-weight Copilot Chat available...

Kingston’s new DC3000ME Gen5 U.2 SSD arrives as one of the clearest statements yet that PCIe 5.0 enterprise flash is moving out of the OEM-only channel and into mainstream procurement — a high-capacity, 1‑DWPD data center drive with Gen5 performance, broad security and telemetry features, and...

Speaker Mike Johnson’s announcement at the Congressional Hackathon that the U.S. House will begin a staged pilot giving thousands of House staffers access to Microsoft Copilot marks a dramatic reversal of last year’s ban and opens a high‑stakes test of how a legislative body adopts generative AI...

Starting this fall, the U.S. House of Representatives will pilot Microsoft Copilot for thousands of members and staff — a rapid policy reversal from the chamber’s 2024 ban that converts institutional caution into a high‑stakes experiment in government AI adoption. Background: from prohibition to...

The U.S. House of Representatives is reversing course on a high‑profile digital ban and will begin a managed, one‑year pilot to give thousands of House staffers access to Microsoft Copilot — a move framed as institutional modernization but one that raises immediate questions about tenancy...