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Welsh Assembly signs e-procurement contract
News The Welsh Assembly has signed a contract for a procurement tendering web portal that is expected to help it save £200m over five years. The portal, which supports the 'xchangewales' e-procurement programme, was ordered by Value Wales, the... [06 Aug 2008]
First students graduate from IT 'business' degree
News McKibbin has secured a place on British Airways' IT Graduate Programme in Newcastle, to start this September; while Broom will take up a post with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, working within the procurement department. [24 Jul 2008]
Durham health consortium outsources e-procurement
News A consortium of health trusts and HM Prisons within County Durham has outsourced its shared procurement hub, which it uses to source around £350m of supplies and equipment a year. The service will be hosted by the e-procurement specialist supplier... [22 May 2008]
Royal Mail on target to save £300m with SAP
News Royal Mail is on course to save £300m over three years through efficiencies created by its SAP-based procurement transformation programme. Central to the project is SAP supplier relationship management (SRM) software and its E-Procurement module. [22 May 2008]
Beware the insider security threat
News Simon Crawshaw, IT and procurement director, Bourne Leisure Security experts at the RSA security conference in San Francisco last week warned of all manner of threats ranging from botnets to metasploit attacks. [17 Apr 2008]
ID cards chief defends u-turn
News Hall insisted that the changes were not what prompted Accenture, BAE Systems and more recently Steria to pull out of the procurement process to build the ID card computer system, describing the remaining bidders as "incredibly positive". [10 Mar 2008]
ID cards: Gov't slaps on fines of up to £1,000
News Doubts in the scheme were further exacerbated by Accenture and BAE Systems pulling out of the procurement process to build the ID card computer system. Silicon.com's A to Z of ID Cards Click on the links below to find out everything you ever needed... [26 Feb 2008]
ID cards plan: Airport union wants answers
News Doubts in the scheme were further exacerbated by Accenture and BAE Systems pulling out of the procurement process to build the ID card computer system. Silicon.com's A to Z of ID Cards Click on the links below to find out everything you ever needed... [20 Feb 2008]
ID cards: What's the latest?
News Government plans to introduce ID cards have taken another battering recently, with suggestions of delays to their introduction and suppliers pulling out of the procurement process. Confused about where it's going? [29 Jan 2008]
Leisure company uses web to streamline suppliers
News Bourne Leisure has kicked off an e-procurement pilot in a shake up of its supplier base that will cost around £400,000 in the first year and may see the number of its suppliers reduced by half. The private hospitality company, which operates the... [28 Jan 2008]
Accenture and BAE Systems abandon ID cards
News Both Accenture and BAE Systems have withdrawn from the procurement process for contracts to build the national identity register and the biometric ID cards. The Home Office said the procurement process is on schedule and that it will award the... [25 Jan 2008]
Royal Mail opts for SAP to cut sourcing costs
News Royal Mail is aiming to save £300m on procurement costs by 2009 with the help of a hosted e-sourcing application from SAP. The SAP-hosted software will help the procurement team manage £2.3bn of annual expenditure by Royal Mail. [26 Oct 2007]
CIO Essentials: Male techies, data breaches and web 2.0...
News I think this may also be down to a growing sense of realism about what's practical and smarter procurement, as well as shared infrastructure. Ever wondered what CIOs are reading on silicon.com? Our CIO Essentials feature puts you in the picture. [18 Sep 2007]
£31m pumped into ID card project
News The report said: "At the mid-year position this financial plan was revised due to the shift in emphasis to utilising existing public and private sector infrastructure to deliver the NIS, thus reducing planned procurement activity within the year. [30 Jul 2007]
Microsoft bulk-buy benefits by-pass public sector IT
News Central government departments have also made little use of e-procurement, with almost three-quarters having never used electronic auctions. Another problem is the lack of co-ordination between the four main procurement organisations across central... [26 Jun 2007]
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