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BT wins new framework agreement |
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Thursday, 03 January 2008 |
BT has been successfully placed in all 12 categories of the OGCbuying.solutions' Telecom Networks framework agreement. Offering a simplified procurement channel for a range of telecommunications services for customers across the
UK public sector, its total business value to successful suppliers has been estimated at approximately £500 million over the next four years. OGCbuying.solutions is an Executive Agency of the Office of Government Commerce (OGC), which is a member of the HM Treasury family. OGCbuying.solutions' framework agreements are designed to offer public sector customers simplified, value for money and best practice procurement vehicles for a wide range of products and services. Telecom Networks, the latest addition to the OGCbuying.solutions' family of framework agreements, covers a wide range of telecommunications services from voice calls and lines to networking equipment and wireless data infrastructure. Using framework agreements, which are compliant with EU public sector procurement rules, offers pre-negotiated terms and conditions and shorter procurement cycles which enable cost savings for public sector customers and reduced cost of sale for suppliers. The new Telecom Networks framework agreement will join the current OGCbuying.solutions' Specialist Solutions and IT Goods and Associated Services Catalist framework agreements, on which BT is already represented.
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