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BT Pans London

29 July 2016 | Updated 01 January 1970
 

BT has announced that it has been selected as the sole supplier to provide a comprehensive range of information and communication technology (ICT) products and services under a new pan-London public sector procurement framework agreement, worth up to £200 million.

Potential customers can choose from an extensive range of BT products and services which includes local and wide area networking, cloud services, fixed and mobile telephony, unified communications and conferencing.

This is the latest of four frameworks set up by the tri-borough, comprising the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham and Westminster City Council.

As well as being open to local government across all 33 London boroughs, it can be used by other public sector bodies in the capital including the NHS, schools, the Metropolitan and City Police forces, Transport for London, social landlords and various other organisations including waste authorities. In this case, as with two of the other tri-borough frameworks, BT is the sole supplier.

The use and importance of frameworks is growing as they are designed to streamline the buying process across the public sector. Aimed at saving time and money by making the buying process less complex, they help to reduce time-consuming and expensive administration and speed up the delivery of public sector ICT projects.

By using agreements like the tri-borough frameworks, an organisation’s procurement department only has to deal with one supplier, avoiding putting contracts out to tender and the associated time and money spent processing numerous suppliers.

 

Last week

About 10 per cent of BT customers - both corporate and domestic - were affected by a 'power issue' at an outsourced data centre's premises in London this week. Companies from the size of Barclays to a local florist took to social media to express concern…and more than a degree of frustration that everything from online banking to cloud phones were not working for half the business day.

Picture: BT has been selected as sole supplier for a London-wide ICT procurement framework worth up to £200 million

Article written by Robin Snow | Published 29 July 2016

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