The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) is to join mobile phone company Vodafone to study the effect of wireless application protocol (Wap) technologies on the government’s e-procurement agenda.
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Anglo-Dutch food and personal grooming products company Unilever is to “encourage” its suppliers to adopt the euro, but will not enforce them to use it.
A major online marketplace for local authorities will be piloted this autumn in an attempt to save up to 70 per cent of their £27.5 billion annual spend on goods and services.
Companies will increasingly be forced to adopt a more transparent supply chain to prove they have an ethical trading policy if they wish to avoid being targeted by activists.
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Better purchasing has enabled the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to identify £2 billion of savings across more than 100 projects in the past three years.
More than 80 per cent of central government bodies believe they get better value for money from using the private finance initiative (PFI) for building projects than traditional methods.
Outsourced corporate research and development services represent an untapped market for companies daunted by advances in technology, a management consultancy has claimed.
A better understanding of consultant fee structures and improved negotiating skills could save government departments £45 million a year, according to a National Audit Office (NAO) report.