OGC to assess 90% target progress_3
18 July 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...