E-envoy: OGC may fail to hit buying target
3 April 2012
E-envoy Alex Allan has admitted that the government’s target to buy 90 per cent of its low-value, routine goods electronically by April 2001 might not be met.
Questions from the floor at a recent Alliance for Electronic Business (AEB) e-commerce summit prompted Allan to agree that the target might be missed. He said that it was just one part of the government’s aim to make the UK the best place in the world for doing e-commerce.
“These targets are not hard and fast - they are flexible and movable,” he said.
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