Treasury announces winners in public sector IT 'shopping spree'

Contract for desktop, infrastructure and software systems worth about £6bn

Treasury procurement agency announces winners in £6bn public sector IT framework contract

Buying Solutions, the Treasury's national procurement partner for public services, has released the names of 20 suppliers that will deliver technology for the the £6bn cross-government "commoditised" technology framework.

The framework comprises desktop hardware, IT infrastructure hardware, and specialised channel partners for software.

All three parts of the framework agreement expire in August 2013.

The 20 suppliers are: ANS Group, Bull Information Systems, Civica Services, Computacenter, CSA Waverley, Equanet, Ergo Computing, European Electronique, Fujitsu Services, Insight Direct (UK), Kelway UK, Misco (Systemax Europe), Phoenix Software, Probrand (The IT Index), Softcat, Software Box, Specialist Computer Centres (SCC), Stone Computers, Trustmarque Solutions and Viglen.

About £220bn is spent by the public sector on third-party goods and services each year, representing about 15 per cent of UK GDP.