Government Drives Down IT Costs
News A total saving of £412m on all purchases was achieved through frameworks and managed service agreements negotiated by the Treasury buying agency OGCbuying.solutions. A major programme to replace current framework agreements dominated the year for...
[July 31, 2006, 16:35]
Government Secures SAP Deal For Bulk Savings
News The three-year memorandum of understanding with the Office of Government Commerce trading arm, OGCbuying.solutions, came into effect on 1 January, 2007, and will give all government departments and public-sector organisations preferential pricing...
[March 5, 2007, 8:16]
Government Inks £25m ICT Saving Deals
News The two memorandums of understanding (MoUs) have been brokered by the Treasury's procurement agency OGCbuying.solutions and are based on negotiating licensing discounts for individual departments and agencies based on the overall bulk purchasing...
[April 5, 2005, 16:10]
UK Government Signs Linux Deal
News Called Purchase & Pay, the Linux-based system is being operated by OGCbuying.solutions only for customers in the Department of Work & Pensions (DWP). Hugh Barrett, chief executive of OGCbuying.solutions, said: "Our decision to use open-source...
[April 4, 2003, 15:24]
IT Consultants: Your Government Needs You
News The move is part of the Catalist programme, a single purchasing system to replace the government IT catalogues run by OGCbuying.solutions, an executive agency of the Office of Government Commerce. Hugh Barrett, chief executive of OGCbuying...
[June 6, 2005, 15:55]
Public Sector Wins Huge IT Discounts
News OGCbuying.solutions — a government e-procurement arm — is running a scheme which promises average savings of over 25 percent to public sector organisations until the end of March 2007. The current deal follows on from the "Autumn Great Deals" offer...
[December 11, 2006, 8:27]
Public Sector Gets Cut-price PCs
News OGCbuying.solutions — the Government's e-procurement arm — conducted the competition for desktop, laptops and monitors. Hugh Barrett, chief executive of OGCbuying.solutions, said the PC specifications are designed to handle current software...
[August 30, 2006, 17:05]
Government IT Procurement Slammed
News Out of the 13 suppliers listed on the IT hardware framework agreement list on the OGCbuying.solutions Web site just one, Ergo Computing, is classed under EC guidelines as an SMB. OGCbuying.solutions has also introduced a new e-sourcing tool to make...
[February 22, 2005, 8:05]
Government Saves £1m On Microsoft Licences
News One-and-a-half million public sector users have joined together under OGC's leadership to make the most of their combined purchasing power," said Hugh Barrett, chief executive of OGCbuying.solutions, the OGC's trading arm, in a statement.
[September 14, 2006, 17:15]
Government Agrees IP Telephony Deal
News Public-sector purchasing body OGCbuying.solutions has awarded Global Crossing a £105m extension on its contract, to provide managed telecoms services until 2011. Originally signed in 1996, the deal involves the provision of managed IP network...
[June 13, 2007, 16:25]
Government Pushes Tech Procurement Savings
News Speaking at the GC2005expo conference in London, Hugh Barrett, chief executive of OGCbuying.solutions, urged attendees to scrutinise their existing business methods for potential savings. The government body responsible for helping the public...
[June 21, 2005, 16:00]
Another False Economy?
Talkback I just wonder what the cost of the Office of Government Commerce trading arm, OGCbuying Solutions, will be to run against the claimed savings. This amateuristic government and it's impractical civil servants have long proven they are not very...
[March 7, 2007, 10:17]
Warning Sounded Over Public Sector IT Spend
News Speaking alongside Oughton, OGCbuying.solutions chief executive Hugh Barrett said that future savings should not all come through value for money deals. John Oughton, chief executive of the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) was speaking at the...
[June 21, 2005, 16:20]
