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IT hardware eAuction delivers £2.7m savings for UK taxpayer
Released on 07/06/2006
OGC's Procurement Workstream team has saved the taxpayer £2.7 million by running an electronic auction (eAuction).
The latest eAuction for IT hardware and related products - lasting seven hours 10 minutes - delivered a 41 per cent reduction in price against the starting figure of £6.5 million.
This fifth eAuction - in a series of collaborations between OGC and buyers from central Government, local authorities and the NHS - involved 12 organisations from across the public sector, with 400 bids received from seven suppliers.
OGC Procurement Programmes Director Richard Abbott said: "The savings realised by this latest eAuction are the best achieved to date. What makes the results even more attractive is that this eAuction was the first known, collaborative, cross-sector event run under the new EU Procurement Regulations, which came into being on January 31, 2006.
"OGC will be continuing to look at leveraging significantly larger and more strategic engagements with the key players in the IT hardware market.
The OGC Procurement Workstream's eProcurement team managed the entire end-to-end sourcing process for all 12 participants.
This included preparing specifications and the invitation to tender, evaluation and setting up the eAuction, with auction service providers Achilles managing the technical expertise for OGC.
Contact details:
OGC Service Desk
Tel: 0845 000 4999
E-mail: ServiceDesk@ogc.gsi.gov.uk
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