OGC to assess 90% target progress_2
3 April 2012
The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) is to open talks with government departments to assess their progress towards the target of buying 90 per cent of low-value, high-volume goods electronically by April.
The information would be collected within the “next three to four months”, Jane Gibbs, the OGC’s director of e-commerce, told SM, although the figures would not be used to draw up a “league table”.
She denied reports that the figure achieved by Whitehall was only 40 per cent. No data had yet been collected.
Once the information had been gathered, other...