In all, Ovum Holway predicts in "The Public Sector 2003" report that the public sector software and IT services market will be worth STG7 billion in 2006.
The report from the research firm breaks the UK's public sector market into six segments for analysis: central government, local government, health, education, defence and criminal justice.
The paper notes that the criminal justice sector has been tipped as the strongest prospect for companies seeking to sell into the public sector; the criminal justice software and services market is expected to grow by an astonishing 25 percent on average between 2001 and 2006, while the health market should grow by 20 percent on average. Spending on software in the education market, meanwhile, is actually expected to decline over the term.
The Ovum Holway report is the latest research to prove the strong trend upward in government business for technology companies in the UK. The Management Consultancies Association, an organisation of the biggest management consulting firms in the UK, said in its annual report that earnings from public sector work for its members rose 53 percent between 2000 and 2001 to STG509 million. Fees from work with the central government alone rose a tidy 73 percent to STG420 million. The association said that public sector work in 2001 represented 13 percent of total fee income for its members, up from 9 percent in 2000.
Quelle: electricnews
