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Cabinet Office was forced to paper over cracks in its procurement strategy by extending an infrastructure kit framework for two-thirds of a year as replacements remained way off completion, a spokesman admitted. The Commodity IT Hardware & Software (CITHS) agreement had been set to go cold at the start of March having run for …

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  1. pacman7de
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    Framework roadmap slippage?

    "The Transactional IT Product Solution is the natural successor to Sprint ii, for which a Prior Information Notice was sent to suppliers in December. There are no guarantees this will reach the tender stage"

    What the f**k are you on about?

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    1. mindboggled
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      Re: Framework roadmap slippage?

      TIPS is emphatically not Sprint iii, it's more like Zanzibar II, son of Government e-marketplace etc. It won't be a framework, it won't be a one stop shop, it won't be sole supplier. It's a portal for high volume, low value (ave. £250 )transactional spend, most likely with many suppliers populating a dynamic marketplace. Think G-amazon.

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