The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) is set to go £2.8bn over budget on its top 25 procurement projects - pushing total costs up to £38bn, according to a report by the National Audit Office (NAO). An MoD spokesman blamed the poor results on its current...
PNG claims better colour resolution and better transparency. Procurement has become one of the hottest areas on the Internet as companies jump at cost-saving opportunities. Computacenter this week joined the fray, forming a business to business e...
The Defence Electronic Commerce Service (DECS) project, which will allow the MoD to tender its procurement requirements on the internet, is a central part of a cost cutting measure that should save the department up to 20 per cent over the next...
Cancer Research opted for online auctions as part of an organisation-wide initiative to cut the charity's £130m annual procurement budget. Cancer Research is using online auctions to cut its procurement bill by over £2.5m a year.
Neil Harvey, head of IT and accommodation at the Food Standards Agency, said: "They are rising, though I would suggest no more than other facility costs. One IT director, who did not wish to be named, said: "We run a small data centre within a...
Read's responsibilities include examining the standardisation and simplification of business processes, improving government's success rate on the delivery of big IT projects, ensuring compatibility between national systems and improving hardware...