A quarter of government ICT procurement to involve SMEs by 2015

Danny Palmer
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Francis Maude makes case for smaller businesses to take a bigger role in handling government ICT contracts

The government's Open Standards Principles is one of a number of factors - including G-Cloud, that'll help it achieve a target of reaching a quarter of all ICT procurement contracts being provided ...

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