The Government's bespoke content management system is being phased out
Government websites currently using DotP, the hosted content management service developed by the Office of the e-Envoy, will be switching to a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) solution next year, eGov monitor Weekly can report.
Launched by the OeE in April 2003, DotP (short for 'Delivering on the Promise') is a central technology infrastructure specifically designed to manage and host multiple government websites.
The eGovernment Unit expects to support its DotP managed service until March 2006, with departments migrating to a COTS offering from then on.
To jointly achieve this goal, several DotP customers - the Department of Health, the Directgov portal and the Chancellor's Child Trust Fund initiative - have now formed a 'club' with the Department for Education and Skills and the Department for Transport.
The DfES, as the lead department, has set the objective as procuring a new e-Communications infrastructure, which will incorporate a content management system package and managed service hosting. We'll keep you posted on this interesting development.
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