Barclays Bank is implementing a new e-procurement system to bring all of its £500 million spending online by the middle of next year. The system will be accessible to 30,000 staff in 2,500 locations.
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Barclays Bank is implementing a new e-procurement system to bring all of its £500 million spending online by the middle of next year. The system will be accessible to 30,000 staff in 2,500 locations.
Struggling business-to-business Internet services group J2C is to close all but one of its operations after it failed to find a buyer. The only operation that J2C, formerly known as Just2Clicks, will now run is BestValueZone, which provides e-procurement services to the public sector. www.just2clicks.com
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Microsoft has promised to continue its dialogue with customers after lobby group the Infrastructure Forum complained to the Office of Fair Trading that the company’s new system of licences for desktop software will increase annual licence fees by 94 per cent. www.microsoft.co.uk
The Ministry of Defence has invited two international consortia led by Lockheed Martin and BAE Dynamics to compete for a contract worth more than £300 million for a “fire-and-forget” anti-armour guided missile system. Proposals are due in by early next year.
Retailer John Lewis and computer seller Tempo have asked the Office of Fair Trading to issue an injunction against computer manufacturer Packard Bell after it announced plans to stop supplying them.
The Ministry of Defence could do more to reduce the risk of fraud by tightening up its property management contracts, the National Audit Office has said.
The recent NAPM conference showed that buyers in the US focus mainly on manufacturing, says David Hewitt
Business-to-business software provider PeopleSoft has acquired a wide range of catalogue management and content integration software from Cohera. The solution enables purchasers and merchants to create and manage catalogues. www.peoplesoft.com
Talk of effective partnering is just that - power is far more likely to define buyer-supplier relations, says John Ramsay