One hindrance can be caused by competition between consortia. The business environment in which they work can put pressure on them to do regional deals even when a national deal is in place. The group worked hard throughout the year to apply procurement principles in a consistent way. One aid to effective take-up of deals is proactive management of the contract. Much time was spent in ensuring that review mechanisms were satisfactory and that contacts with suppliers were timely and anticipated potential problems.
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The group spent some considerable time discussing whether the needs of the sector were fully met by this range of machines or whether additional choices of top-end machines were desirable and decided not to add to the agreement at this stage. Contract review meetings were taking place. In the initial stage a working group has been formed of networking professionals and procurement experts and a questionnaire has been drawn up to survey the community about perceived needs. Personal Computers and Servers Considerable further discussion took place on the desirability of a national deal for personal computers. The regions have their own deals in place and there is a good amount of commonality between suppliers.