OGC makes e-commerce a priority
2 April 2012
Tendering on the Internet will be one of the first initiatives of the government’s central procurement agency, the Office of Government Commerce, when it starts up on 1 April, according to its first chief executive.
“There are substantial opportunities to be secured by accelerating the use of e-commerce across government in the way it interacts with its suppliers,” said Peter Gershon, who is currently chief operating officer of BAe Systems. “There will be much greater use of the procurement card and e-tendering.”
“We are in the tendering process for e-tendering and the e-...