IT suppliers behaved appallingly Chief procurement officer Bill Crothers has accused some IT suppliers of conducting an abusive relationship with Government. Speaking to BBC Radio 4s the World at One, he accused them of monopolistic behaviour. The Cabinet Office said new rules would limit the size and in some cases the duration of IT contracts with government. Mr Crothers said: This is about the oligopoly: the cluster of big suppliers who have had it too good for too long. The Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude said in one case a government department was charged £30,000 for changing the text on a web page. While Mr Crothers said a supplier tried to charge £65 for a laptop power cable worth around £20. Andrew Corbett, of the UK IT Association, said: The main thing that surprises me about this statement is that someone from inside government has been prepared to openly go on record about it. This has been a very open secret in the IT industry for some years.
Posted on: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 08:31:29 +0000
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