Local councils struggle to capture online benefits_2
7 September 2012
Capturing the benefits of an e-procurement system is one on the hardest elements of analysing whether the investment has been worthwhile for local authorities.
Caroline Stanger, senior e-government adviser at the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM), told delegates to the eWorld conference in London last week that authorities have been good at making business cases for e-procurement.
Nearly 100 of the 388 councils in England are running an e-procurement project, spurred on by the government's aim of all councils...