The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) has reported that a group of councils and NHS trusts saved almost 50 per cent of the previous cost of IT hardware in an electronic auction.
The 14 local authorities and six health trusts spent £6.9m on six lots benchmarked at £13.7m in an auction taking place on 10 May.
It was the biggest saving achieved so far since the first e-auction in September 2005, and according to the OGC’s estimates brought the total of savings to £21m, it said on 14 May 2007.
The e-auction was run by the OGC with the London Centre of Excellence, the regional centre for delivering local government efficiency. The baseline figure was determined by the relevant volumes against prices the organisations have been paying.

Posted: 05|15|07 at 9:21 am. Filed under: UK News.