public sector procurement

On June 29, 2026, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced a statewide partnership with Anthropic that gives state agencies, cities, and counties discounted access to Claude, with training and technical support for workers using generative AI in public services across the country’s largest...

SGA Solutions said on June 24, 2026, that its RedCastle V6.0 for Windows Server 2025 R3 server security product earned Common Criteria certification at Evaluation Assurance Level 4, positioning the Korean vendor for public-sector, defense, finance, and AI infrastructure security projects. The...

Killinghall Parish Council’s £1,100-a-year Microsoft bill is a small local-government line item with a national competition problem inside it: the council wanted Teams, found full use depended on Microsoft-hosted email, and told the UK Competition and Markets Authority in June 2026 that the...

NHS England’s £46,000 spend on software licensing benchmarking may be small in absolute terms, but it is a strong signal that a much larger Microsoft negotiation is coming into view. The newly published procurement notice points to advisory work designed to help the health service understand...

The government’s plan to roll Microsoft’s Copilot and other AI tools deeper into England and Wales’s courts marks a decisive shift: routine tasks from transcribing hearings to summarising judgments and scheduling cases will increasingly be handed to algorithms as ministers promise faster justice...

Washington lawmakers are advancing a set of targeted, high‑visibility proposals this legislative session that aim to constrain the most visible harms from generative AI—especially around companion chatbots, child safety, transparency about what models were trained on, and rights for...