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Paying consultants on a success-fee basis for e-procurement projects benefits them and the buyer, argues Gordon Parker
The Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions has begun a three-month review of best practice in local government. The aim is to reduce bureaucracy and ensure that “best value is neutral as to whether services are best provided by the public, private or voluntary sectors”, according to Stephen Byers, secretary of state.
Glovia International, the business-to-business e-commerce subsidiary of Fujitsu, has teamed up with software company FormScape, to offer ePublish. The new package enables firms to publish securely shared data such as purchase orders. www.glovia.com
Q: I am stores and purchasing manager for a major UK city council’s building works department and have been tasked with streamlining our stores service. We operate three stores across the city, yet each area is served well by various merchants - I am sur
Business-to-business transactions accounted for more than four-fifths of the £57 billion spent last year on e-commerce, according to the first official UK survey. National Statistics surveyed more than 9,000 private-sector firms and found that e-commerce accounted for just 2 per cent of total sales. It had the strongest presence in insurance, air travel, computing and office machinery.
The Highways Agency is to re-tender a £100 million road maintenance deal because the first bids were not good enough. The agency was due to award the contract, for routine repairs of around 550 kilometres of trunk roads in Suffolk, Norfolk, Essex and Cambridgeshire, this month.