Public Sector

Influential can utilise their success in the private sector to work effectively with the public sector and help deliver what everyone wants - better public services that are faster and more cost effective.

Our experienced individuals have a thorough understanding of the complexities of the public sector environment.

Areas of expertise include:

  • Policing
  • Council Client Management
  • Communications
  • Portals

Influential has interim certification for both ISO9001 Quality Management & ISO27001 Information Security Management and is registered and approved on the following public sector portals:

  • Bluelight
  • The Chest (North West Local Authorities)
  • South East Business Portal
  • Southern Water
  • Compete For (London & Olympics)
  • Kings Colleage London
  • NEPO (North East Local Authorities)
  • Eastern Shires Purchasing Organisation
  • BBC Tenders
  • TED - EU Tenders

As at end-January 2012, Influential is currently working on the following tenders:

  • Durham University (BI project)
  • Westminster Council (BI project)
  • Leicester NHS (BI project)

And, Influential is applying for two government grants around job creation and R&D:

Recent news stories about IT in the public sector:

22nd September 2011 - Government pulls plug on ailing £11bn NHS IT programme
20th September 2011 - FireControl wastes £500m
28th July 2011 - IT giants ripping off Whitehall
28th July 2011 - Government pays 10 times the going rate for IT
30th March 2011 - Government ICT strategy - stop using BT/Fujitsu/HP
11th February 2011 - Government reforms to open up public sector IT to SMEs
12th January 2010 - Labour’s worst IT disasters
7th December 2009 - Government IT - overspending and overstaffing
6th November2009 - Twenty five years of government IT project failure
27th January 2009 - Government IT disasters
17th May 2007 - Seven in 10 government IT projects fail

If you would like to talk to us about a public sector tender for your IT project that you need to deliver successfully, please contact us or join us for a chat at the world famous 40-30 rooftop bar of our landmark London office - 30 St Mary Axe.