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A Guide to Saving money with the Government Procurement Card

Our new publication, Saving Money with GPC, provides clear guidance about how your organisation can benefit from using the GPC, including how GPC works, what support OGC offers and how other orgainsations have saved money and time.

GPC Programme Toolkit

Those seeking to introduce the Government Procurement card to their organisation should take a look at the GPC Programme Toolkit.

Overview of GPC

The Government Procurement Card (GPC) is a branded VISA Purchasing Card. It is available to the entire UK public sector at no cost through a framework agreement between OGCbuying.solutions, VISA and six VISA-issuing banks

Whether utilised as an entry-level eProcurement solution or an efficient method of payment, the GPC Visa is a simple and effective business tool.

It provides:

  • A cost effective means of buying low value goods and services (typically removing 95% of administrative effort);
  • Enhanced standards of service delivery by making it simpler for employees to buy essential day-to-day items, travel tickets etc
    Guaranteed on-time payment to suppliers.
  • In short, the GPC is convenient, cost-effective, and a valuable contributor to efficiency targets.

OGC and OGCbuying.solutions are working together to improve the visibility, adoption and use of GPC Visa procurement cards across the public sector - one of the many tools available to help public sector organisation meet their Efficiency Programme targets.

By the end of 2008 it is anticipated that the cumulative spend will have risen to £4.5 billion from 2004's £1.1 billion.

The new GPC framework agreement also provides for the provision of VISA travel cards, corporate cards, commercial cards, business cards and virtual VISA cards.

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