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Agenda Setters: Where are they now… Sir Peter Gershon
Comment Another part of the legacy will be Project Zanzibar, an XML-based e-hub, possibly about to shave tens of millions of pounds off government procurement. After a long and impressive career in industry,... [27 Aug 2004]
Leader: £400m extra for government spy centre?
Leader Of course, the best way to stop this is to have better procedures in place during the planning and procurement of the contract - and to this extent the government has put some checks in place - but when... [15 Jun 2004]
Leader: Government IT leaders on verge of new era
Leader Over at the Office of Government Commerce, Sir Peter Gershon, who has overhauled public sector IT procurement procedures, has just handed over the reigns to his deputy John Oughton. The race for the post... [05 May 2004]
Boardroom Despatches: Eager suppliers, supine buyers
Comment Continuing a recent silicon.com theme of large organisations being brave enough to use smaller suppliers, Rene Carayol this month explains why seemingly playing safe with IT procurement is ultimately dangerous for all of... [10 Mar 2004]
Devil's Advocate: The big deal of government buying small
Comment The issue of government procurement of IT is hardly a new one. Most find that government procurement policies work against them. But government... [09 Mar 2004]
Analysis: SMEs - an answer to public sector IT failings?
Comment One of the most high-profile and well-regarded public sector IT bosses, Yard praises steps taken by the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) in the last couple of years and reckons recent procurement... [02 Mar 2004]
Leader: Criminal record system highlights fatal government flaws
Leader The procurement watchdog the Office of Government Commerce claims it is too early for its own impact to be felt from the reviews it imposes on all new government IT projects but that... [13 Feb 2004]
Leader: £3bn Revenue contract serves notice to IT suppliers
Leader And along with the increased scrutiny of Peter Gershon at the Office of Government Commerce and what is happening with the strict conditions and penalty clauses in the procurement process for the NHS'... [11 Dec 2003]
Emergency services digital radio mess
Comment This brings us on to the second issue of how much of a genuine competition this procurement process is. Taxpayers and hard-up fire-fighters are today asking why £1.6m has been wasted on digital radio projects for the... [03 Jul 2003]
MoD's 'screw it up and you suffer' approach is the way to go
Comment One thing that is for certain is that with both the MoD and Inland Revenue going through the procurement process for billion-pound IT contracts the consortium model will come under close scrutiny, as will the... [27 Jun 2003]
Devil's Advocate: The chauvinism of ebusiness
Comment Should retail, corporate procurement, tourism and financial services naturally be revolutionised by the web? The government's wave of enthusiasm for broadband and e-government is not... [10 Dec 2002]
Procurement: to single-source or multi-source?
Comment Secondly, the government's procurement agency signed-up Orange as a mobile phone supplier, bringing an end to Vodafone's monopoly in that area. The government has gone for two suppliers... [13 Sep 2002]
The latest big broadband idea
Comment Sounds good in theory but government procurement is notoriously littered with pitfalls. And if procurement teams are required to consider the competitive landscape before awarding... [21 Feb 2002]
The MoD, the NHS and a company called Microsoft
Comment They get to cut back on procurement paperwork and spend less money on Microsoft products in the process. On his visits to Number 10 Bill is accorded head of state-like status and his advice on government... [08 Nov 2001]
John Lamb's Week: Summer's over - let the conferences begin
Comment Described as its biggest product announcement of the year, software company Ariba will be taking the wraps off an e-procurement tool called Sourcing 3.0. The Source and British Systems Group are hosting a seminar on data... [14 Sep 2001]
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