From the EU Commission Communication on Open Standards and vendor lock-ins: "A ‘lock-in’ situation will usually imply that procurement documents for the next contract related to the ICT system causing the ‘lock-in’ will contain references to the brand name of that system. Purchasers must resort to reference to brand names, because the lack of information about the ICT system makes it impossible to describe the system sufficiently precise in any other way. A number of studies5 have indeed indicated an extensive use of brand names in procurement documents. The percentage of invitations to tender referring to brand names ranges from 16% to 36 %, depending on the samples used in the studies. In addition, the majority of the 244 respondents to the 2011 Survey use brand names in invitations to tender, with 23 % either always or often referring to brand names, and just under 40 % only sometimes doing so." This is very common in the telecommunications industry.
Posted on: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 07:26:23 +0000
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