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Xerox snaps up ACS in $6.4bn deal
News The savings are related to back office, procurement and the costs related to running a public company. Xerox said Monday it will buy Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) in a cash and stock deal valued at $6.4bn. [28 Sep 2009]
And the £400m biometric passport contract goes to…?
News According to the IPS, the procurement process for the contract started with 20 prospective bidders in June 2008, before DeLaRue was eventually awarded the project. The UK government has awarded the contract for creating... [12 Jun 2009]
Yahoo! to slash 10 per cent of staff
News will relocate operations to lower-cost regions of the world, consolidate real estate, improve procurement, and standardise its infrastructure, Yang said. Yahoo! on Tuesday reported a 64 per cent drop in net income for... [22 Oct 2008]
£400m outsourcing deal faces employment tribunal
News The dispute revolves around the transfer of 1,500 local government jobs in Somerset - including more than 130 IT workers as well as finance, HR, property procurement and contact staff - to a joint venture company... [06 Aug 2008]
Councils sign £400m shared services deal with IBM
News It will deliver shared IT, finance, human resources, customer services, facilities management, property services and procurement services. Two southwestern local authorities have signed a £400m deal to... [02 Oct 2007]
Taxpayers save £412m through smarter buying
News Almost half a billion pounds of taxpayers' money has been saved through a public sector procurement scheme, the government has claimed. OGCbuying.solutions, which is part of HM Treasury, said in a report that a number of... [26 Jul 2006]
Bidding begins for £400m e-Borders system
News The UK government has started the procurement process for the £400m e-Borders project to track and screen all travellers entering and leaving the UK. The Home Office's Immigration and Nationality... [04 Oct 2005]
Smarter IT deals save taxpayers millions
News Better management of government procurement has saved the taxpayer £321m on £2bn worth of deals - many of which are IT and telecoms contracts. The figures appear in the annual report of OGCbuying.solutions, the... [27 Jul 2005]
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 things do go... [15 Jun 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 won’t wash for much longer and there... [13 Feb 2004]
MPs slam 'appalling' £400m criminal-background vetting system
News The CRB - a private finance project between the UK Passport and Records Agency and Capita - went live nine months late in March 2002 but government procurement watchdog the Office of Government Commerce only gave it the... [12 Feb 2004]
Hotmail founder makes dot-com gaffe
News Hotmail founder Sabeer Bhatia is blaming tough times in the US for the closure of his current online procurement services venture arzoo.com. Bhatia is something of a figurehead for Indian entrepreneurship. [20 Jun 2001]
MoD goes online in £45m procurement manoeuvre
News 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... [24 Jul 2000]
Nestlé hungers for e-procurement strategy
News Swiss food retailer Nestlé is considering implementing a virtual procurement market place for some of its main food lines. Nestlé claimed it was working on projects similar to those of Procter & Gamble and Unilever... [16 Mar 2000]
