The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) has set up an initiative to help public-sector IT buyers to purchase discounted PCs from approved vendors.
The OGC and its trading arm, OGC Buying Solutions, said the jointly-developed Great Deals scheme provides up to 45 percent off prices for desktop and laptop PCs and screens, and will speed up procurement across public-sector departments.
Under the scheme, approved suppliers were asked to enter sealed bids with low prices.
Seventeen hardware makers are now participating and offerings include desktops from £280 and laptops from £430. The Great Deals programme will be refreshed every 90 days.
“Makers of client devices were asked to give a one-off price and 17 of 19 vendors approached submitted bids,” said an OGC Buying Solutions spokeswoman.
