Specialist software providers in education, health, and policing can look forward to fireside chat
The UK government’s procurement wing is looking to have a chat with specialist software suppliers before it readies to launch a competition for contracts which could be worth a total of £1.8bn. Crown Commercial Service (CCS), a procurement unit within the Cabinet Office, has launched a prior information notice to get to know suppliers interested in providing software for vertical applications, such as those “developed to meet the needs of their particular industry”, according to the document. The CCS aims to create a framework agreement where buyers from across the public sector — from local authorities, fire services, schools and hospitals, for example — can get their software under a single agreement.
