OGC denies 90% target is in doubt_2
3 April 2012
The government’s central procurement agency has commissioned a review of its e-commerce strategy amid signs that its target to use e-procurement for 90 per cent of routine purchases by next April may not be met.
Peter Gershon, chief executive of the Office of Government Commerce (OGC), told delegates at the Public Sector Procurement conference in London this month that the OGC is launching a “short, externally led review” to see if its current approach is the most effective.
Asked by SM whether the target was slipping away, Gershon, who started in his position this...