29-11-2011
The UK government has put out a tender for managed print services and devices that will be worth between £704 million and £904 million over four years.
A tender notice was published by the Cabinet Office for multifunctional devices and services, managed print services and print audit services under Government Procurement's framework agreement.
It says the new framework is targeted at two types of customers: small bodies with simple requirements and larger departments needing complicated print systems.
Earlier this year, Cabinet Office minister Frances Maude revealed that HMRC's print contract will be available to all government departments in a deal that is expected to save £21 million and will replace 140 contracts with a single contract.
Commenting at the time of that announcement, he said: "The most radical changes to procurement are now underway - the days when there was no strategy and no coherence to the way the government bought goods and services are well and truly at an end."
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Posted by John Dixon
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