We have created a short, anonymous survey to collect information about your digital requirements, preferences and how you use the internet. As part of our project to replace SPIRE we want to understand how best to help all SPIRE users, …
Alpha phase takes place before beta and going live. We focus on testing and increasing our service quality, fixing critical issues and altering some features in response to early feedback. Eight weeks of alpha development have come and gone. The …
Not every government service gets the best press and few would deny there have been a few slip-ups in recent years. The import/export licensing blog is designed to keep you informed about progress on SPIRE’s replacement, so we can get …
As we move from Discovery to Alpha we are now starting to test our technology options. This blog explains why we have chosen OpenStack, Ansible, Docker containers and Kubernetes. In the last 15 years the technology community has seen the …
An important aspect of export licensing is the ability of customs officials to check whether goods are being taken out of the UK under a valid licence. This is one of the challenges of the new import/export licensing system; currently …
Two weeks of calm after discovery, and suddenly the controlled mayhem of alpha is upon us. For the next phase of the import/export licensing project, which is yet to have had a shiny new acronym bestowed upon it, our previously …
So cheerio, Discovery. It’s been quite the ride, each of us clutching the side of our fairground teacup for dear life as the new import/export licensing system barrels towards Alpha and the serious development to be found therein. Discovery is …
We’ve been picking the brains of international traders again; this is our new blog, same as the old blog. But if it’s a case of déjà vu following our previous post on presenting to importers and exporters at the Salamanca …
Listening to exporters is the only way we’re going to produce a well-received replacement for the SPIRE export licensing system. With that in mind, this week we corralled 60 exporters into the Salamanca Square conference centre on the Albert Embankment, …
One Government at the border (1G@B) undertook a discovery phase in mid-2015 to identify how collective services across Government could come together to control the movement of goods in and out of the UK.
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