Review urges government to shun resellers

Sam Trendall
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Sir Philip Green's Efficiency Review tells public buyers to go direct and advises urgent audit of major IT services contracts

The clock is ticking: Mutli-year fixed-term IT services contracts could soon be a thing of the past Long-term multi-million pound IT services contracts are squarely in the firing line as the gove...

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