Government extends e-trade pilot_2
19 July 2012
The Buying Agency (TBA), an executive agency of the Office of Government Commerce, will extend its e-procurement pilot scheme for low-value, high-volume goods to the whole of the public sector next month.
The marketplace pilot, which has been running since April, brings together 35 key public sector customers, mainly local authorities and higher education bodies, and 400 private-sector suppliers in a trading exchange offering 500,000 different products and services.
A third of the scheme’s users have regularly purchased products over the past six months. “Our...