BT Secures New Framework Agreement with OGCbuying.solutions

BT today announced it has been successfully placed in all 12 categories of the OGCbuying.solutions’ Telecom Networks framework agreement. Offering a simplified procurement channel for a range of telecommunications services for customers across the UK public sector, its total business value to successful suppliers has been estimated at approximately £500 million over the next four years.

OGCbuying.solutions is an Executive Agency of the Office of Government Commerce (OGC), which is a member of the HM Treasury family. OGCbuying.solutions’ framework agreements are designed to offer public sector customers simplified, value for money and best practice procurement vehicles for a wide range of products and services. Telecom Networks, the latest addition to the OGCbuying.solutions’ family of framework agreements, covers a wide range of telecommunications services from voice calls and lines to networking equipment and wireless data infrastructure.

Mark Quartermaine, managing director, BT Government Services said: “BT’s success in being appointed in all the lots on the new framework will allow us to bid for a wide range of public sector contracts expected to be let through the agreement. But it also benefits our customers, who will be able to select BT products and services from an online catalogue where the value for money credentials of the portfolio can be identified.”

Using framework agreements, which are compliant with EU public sector procurement rules, offers pre-negotiated terms and conditions and shorter procurement cycles which enable cost savings for public sector customers and reduced cost of sale for suppliers. The new Telecom Networks framework agreement will join the current OGCbuying.solutions’ Specialist Solutions and IT Goods and Associated Services Catalist framework agreements, on which BT is already represented.