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Value For Money Measurement: OGC Business Guidance
White Papers This paper describes the methodologies for quantifying value for money gains from procurement activity in central civil government in England. The Gershon Review examined the whole process of acquisition from third parties, including goods services...
[April 29, 2005, 0:00]
EDS Investigations Revealed
News The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) has investigated IT supplier EDS four times over the past three years, a Freedom of Information (FoI) Act request has revealed. The OGC commissioned a first investigation from accountant firm Deloitte into...
[February 16, 2005, 11:40]
Results Of Public Consultations: ITIL Refresh
White Papers The UK Office of Government Commerce (OGC) launched a project to define the scope and development plans for a new version of ITIL best practice guidance. During first quarter 2005, the OGC undertook an extensive worldwide public consultation...
[March 16, 2006, 23:00]
EDS Investigations Revealed
Talkback I would like to think that the OGC did this type of analysis on all suppliers to the Government and therefore I am extremly pleased that these reports exist. It would have been useful if the OGC had made this clear.
[February 16, 2005, 15:16]
Government Endorses Open Source
News Today, the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) published a report saying open-source software is now a genuine competitor to Microsoft in the public sector. After a running a series of pilots with government bodies, in conjunction with IBM and Sun...
[October 28, 2004, 10:19]
Ten Government IT Projects In Danger
News The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) has released details of IT projects found to be most at risk across Whitehall, but is keeping the projects' identities secret. The OGC has listed 10 IT projects to receive consecutive red lights under its...
[March 1, 2005, 15:25]
Government Seeks New IT Spending Supremo
News Headhunters have started the search to replace the influential Peter Gershon as CEO of the government's procurement watchdog the Office of Government Commerce (OGC). Gershon took the three-year post in 2000 and has made it a key part of the OGC's...
[October 6, 2003, 14:10]
UK Government Signs Linux Deal
News The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) hopes the system will allow public sector bodies to buy products more quickly, more easily and more cost effectively. The experience gained from the development of the new system will be taken into account as...
[April 4, 2003, 15:24]
Government Saves £1m On Microsoft Licences
News The UK Government will get a discount of more than £1m a year from Microsoft, under a deal reached between the software company and the Office of Government Commerce (OGC). The OGC announced on Thursday that the Government will see the savings as a...
[September 14, 2006, 17:15]
UK Government To Trial XML E-procurement System
News Whitehall procurement body the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) had initially planned to develop its own system that could be used as a model by other departments in an effort to prevent interoperability arising from a disparate collection of e...
[June 18, 2003, 15:32]
The Office Of Government Commerce - Modernising Procurement
White Papers As part of his strategy to achieve the vision, Gershon planned to fully absorb the component parts of OGC, including CCTA, PACE, the Buying Agency and HM Treasury policy teams into the OGC by April 2001.
[December 23, 2004, 23:00]
UK Government Trials Desktop Linux
News Public spending watchdog the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) has signed a framework pricing agreement for Sun's Linux-based Java Desktop System (JDS) and a series of trials will begin in the New Year.
[December 10, 2003, 13:05]
Public Sector Wins New Volume Discounts From Microsoft
News The software giant has an existing 'memorandum of understanding' (MoU) with central government procurement watchdog the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) which expires next year. A spokesman for the OGC would only confirm to ZDNet UK sister site...
[August 18, 2004, 10:25]
DTI To Give SMEs Help Online
News It is hoped that the portal, jointly promoted by the Small Business Service (SBS) and Office of Government Commerce (OGC), will make it easier for business and government buyers to do business. It will build upon lessons that the OGC and SBS...
[January 11, 2005, 14:50]
Government Must Demand Project Accountability - Report
News The report, issued by Parliament's inquiry into IT failures at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), recommends that the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) which monitors IT projects, is expanded and strengthened.
[July 23, 2004, 10:35]
Case Study In Procurement
White Papers In considering how to embrace these initiatives Woking Borough Council reviewed the National Procurement Strategy for Local Government and the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) Gateway Program. Consequently, to underpin these efforts the Council...
[April 28, 2005, 0:00]
Government Attacked Over Document Shredding
News The Office of Government Commerce (OGC), a Treasury body, has issued guidance to its gateway reviewers to shred all documents related to final gateway reviews, leaving only two copies of each, reported ComputerWeekly.
[June 5, 2007, 17:02]
MPs Reveal How To Save £100m On Microsoft Licences
News This achievement was driven by the Office of Government Commerce (OGC), which led the effort with a memorandum of understanding that it foisted first upon Microsoft and later on its other major software suppliers -- including Sun, IBM, Oracle and...
[February 27, 2004, 11:05]
Google Mapping Spec Made Industry Standard
News Google already shares its KML format openly, and others have used it in software products, but the search giant now hopes that its status as an official Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standard will decrease the number of barriers to further...
[April 15, 2008, 10:53]
Open Source Is Good, But Tell Us More
Leader The OGC concentrates on public sector requirements - a very necessary job, to be sure - but there is a good case to be made for a wider remit. The OGC report is very welcome: more, please. State-sponsored research can sometimes seem remote.
[October 28, 2004, 12:44]
