ICT: Public Sector
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether her Department plans to take steps to reduce the level of public sector reliance on large technology companies.
Answered by Kanishka Narayan
The Government is committed to ensuring public sector technology procurement delivers value for money, resilience, and access to a competitive supplier market. Departments are responsible for their own contracting and are required to award contracts through fair and open competition.
The Department of Science, Innovation and Technology recognises the importance of maintaining a diverse and competitive supplier base, including reducing over-reliance on a small number of technology solutions where this limits innovation, resilience or value for money.
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