https://tech.newstatesman.com/public-sector/gov-tech-contracts-letting-former-cio

Government IT buyers are treating official procurement processes as a mere formality by secretly agreeing to let contracts to certain suppliers before putting them out to tender, a former Whitehall CIO has claimed.

In a speech in Manchester on Tuesday, Rachel Murphy – a former chief information officer of the Department for Education and digital delivery director at NHS Digital – warned that frameworks such as DOS and G-Cloud were failing to achieve their aims.