Councils ‘confident’ of reaching 90% target_2
17 August 2012
Six local authorities are confident of meeting the government’s target to carry out 90 per cent of routine procurement online by April 2001, despite government backtracking on the issue.
Cornwall, Bristol, South Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Newport and the Isle of Wight will buy around £10 million of low-value, high-volume products on a pilot basis from local authority buying specialists the Consortium for Purchasing and Distribution (CPD) from next January.
Mervyn Dunstan, computer auditor at Cornwall County Council, said: “It’s still early,...