Buying Solutions signs £6bn framework deal
The Treasury agency Buying Solutions has said that a pan-government framework arrangement with 20 suppliers could be worth £6bn. The deal, announced on 25 March 2010, will deliver desktop hardware, IT hardware infrastructure, software and associated services to Whitehall departments, their agencies, local authorities and the NHS …
Oh, great...
I have experience dealing with some of the suppliers on that list... awful, really awful!!!
Not so bad
I work for a company that is new to the framework. I'd be delighted to demonstrate better customer service than you are used to with other suppliers on the list!
Govt ICT Strategy - more words on paper
Cabinet Office write and departments carry on as usual.
Either there exist strategic benefits, efficiency through competition, opportunities for localism, promotion of use more open source or
OGC subverts the requirement for tendering through pre-qualification and HMRC invents a need for a one stop solution for government.
Clearly one efficiency would be to scrap the CIO Council and its multitudinous support committees, because it's always business as usual.
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