'The last thing the government wants is to work with SMEs...'

Sooraj Shah
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Former HMRC CIO Phil Pavitt believes that little has changed in the past five years, but do SMEs agree? Computing spoke to a wide variety of firms to ask if government moves to encourage smaller firms to supply services are working

The biggest - if not only - criticism of government IT is that it spends far too much money on lengthy contracts with large IT companies; very rarely getting what those in industry would call value...

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