DTI publishes buying policy on net
3 April 2012
The Department of Trade and Industry has launched what it claims is the government’s first online procurement guide that is available to the public.
Published earlier this month only on the Internet, the guide, Procurement Manual 2000, is expected to be accessed by more than 150 users across the DTI, government agencies, including the Patent Office and the Employment Tribunal Service, and non-departmental public bodies.
Ian Tough, the DTI’s head of procurement, said the move to put the manual on the net was...