OGC to quiz big-spending departments
29 August 2012
Departments disregarding deals negotiated by the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) should be “challenged”, the Treasury has said.
At the OGC conference, Delivering Effective and Efficient Public Services, held in London last week, Des Browne, chief secretary to the Treasury, said he expected the OGC “to challenge organisations to justify why they are not taking up the best deals”.
The OGC is carrying out a series of price benchmarking surveys for commodities commonly bought across...