techUK is delighted to be hosting the Home Office Digital Data and Technology (DDaT) team on 31 March from 10:00-11:30 for a virtual briefing on the upcoming re-procurements of the Optimus Programme’s Central Contracts.
Home Office DDaT is evolving to meet the changing digital, data and technology needs of the Home Office. Optimus, a multi-year change programme, is driving this evolution and delivering the capabilities to shape, build and run the services needed to support Home Office transformation. Optimus will improve DDaT’s ability to work collaboratively with stakeholders across the Home Office to deliver our technology objectives, improve our staff experience, strengthen our in-house capability, and to better protect the public and deliver better value for money for the taxpayer.
In 2020 and 2021 Optimus procured 10 DDaT profession-based service contracts and are now starting the re-procurement exercises, placing longer-term contracts and building on the lessons learned. This engagement session will update you on the indicative timetable for all of the re-procurements; provide an opportunity to hear from the professional leads for User Centred Design and Technical Architecture about their requirements; and have an opportunity to be introduced to other suppliers interested in meeting sub-contract partners.
If you’re on the RM6263 or RM1043.7* make sure to book your place now!
*Suppliers who are not on the framework, but have an interest in potentially partnering with a framework supplier on this procurement, are also welcome to join the session.
For any questions or concerns, please get in touch with the below team!
Heather Cover-Kus
Heather Cover-Kus
Heather is Head of Central Government Programme at techUK, working to represent the supplier community of tech products and services to Central Government.
Prior to joining techUK in April 2022, Heather worked in the Economic Policy and Small States Section at the Commonwealth Secretariat. She led the organisation’s FinTech programme and worked to create an enabling environment for developing countries to take advantage of the socio-economic benefits of FinTech.
Before moving to the UK, Heather worked at the Office of the Prime Minister of The Bahamas and the Central Bank of The Bahamas.
Heather holds a Graduate Diploma in Law from BPP, a Masters in Public Administration (MPA) from LSE, and a BA in Economics and Sociology from Macalester College.
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Ellie Huckle
Ellie Huckle
Ellie joined techUK in March 2018 as a Programme Assistant to the Public Sector team and now works as a Programme Manager for the Central Government Programme.
The programme represents the supplier community of technology products and services in Central Government – in summary working to make Government a more informed buyer, increasing supplier visibility in order to improve their chances of supplying to Government Departments, and fostering better engagement between the public sector and industry. To find out more about what we do, how we do this and how you can get involved – make sure to get in touch!
Prior to joining techUK, Ellie completed Sixth Form in June 2015 and went on to work in Waitrose, moved on swiftly to walking dogs and finally, got an office job working for a small local business in North London, where she lives with her family and their two Bengal cats Kai and Nova.
When she isn’t working Ellie likes to spend time with her family and friends, her cats, and enjoys volunteering for diabetes charities. She has a keen interest in writing, escaping with a good book and expanding her knowledge watching far too many quiz shows!
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- 020 7331 2015
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Austin Earl
Austin Earl
Austin joined techUK’s Central Government team in March 2024 to launch a workstream within education and edtech.
With a career spanning technology, policy, media, events and comms, Austin has worked with technology communities, as well as policy leaders and practitioners in education, central and local government and the NHS.
Cutting his teeth working for Skills Matter, London’s developer community hub, Austin then moved to GovNet Communications where he launched Blockchain Live and the Cyber Security and Data Protection Summit. For the last 3 years he has worked with leaders in education across the state and independent schools sectors, from primary up to Higher education, with a strong research interest in technology and education management.
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- Phone:
- 07891 743 932
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- www.techuk.org
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- https://www.linkedin.com/in/austin-spencer-earl/
Annie Collings
Annie Collings
Annie joined techUK as the Programme Manager for Cyber Security and Central Government in September 2023.
Prior to joining techUK, Annie worked as an Account Manager at PLMR Healthcomms, a specialist healthcare agency providing public affairs support to a wide range of medical technology clients. Annie also spent time as an Intern in an MPs constituency office and as an Intern at the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed.
Annie graduated from Nottingham Trent University, where she was an active member of the lacrosse society.
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- anniecollings24
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- https://www.linkedin.com/in/annie-collings-270150158/
