The government is to trial XML interoperability standards that will allow different departmental e-procurement systems to talk to each other.
Whitehall procurement body the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) had initially planned to develop its own system that could be used as a model by other departments in an effort to prevent interoperability arising from a disparate collection of e-procurement systems.
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The Office of Government Commerce is testing "common IT standards" to be shared by the public sector and its suppliers in an attempt to move forward its e-procurement programme.
The UK government's new £25m internet surveillance centre has become fully operational, vnunet.com can reveal.
Sandwell plans to meet the 2005 e-government deadline with a £6m implementation of and Oracle suite covering finance, purchasing, human resources and payroll.
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The project team will be taking the AVANTI roadshow, a hi-tech double decker bus kitted out with personal computers and the latest information technology, to Lewisham Shopping Centre, Lewisham Town Centre on Monday July 29 from 10.00 am to 5.00 pm, allowing local residents the opportunity to use and test this exciting new way to deliver services.