The feasibility of running a seminar will be re-examined by David Sweeney and Alec McSkimming. Hewlett Packard have agreed to a price freeze on toner and inkjet cartridges. Negotiations with Lexmark are continuing. Supplies Team will be introducing web based pricing and purchasing at some time over the summer. 7.4 Laptop PCs Gordon Samet reported that Toshiba and Acer are getting a lot of business from this agreement.
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The Microsoft Campus Agreement and a new tender for the supply of PCs had both been discussed recently within the group. A contract has been awarded to Sun Systems, Silicon Graphics and Dell for the supply of workstations. A tender is being worked on for the supply of Apple Macintosh computers, pending re-organisation of Apple education dealers, and Susan Wright will report on progress at the next meeting. SUPC is investigating the feasibility of an agreement for the supply of computer components for repair work. The meeting agreed that agreements should probably stay at a regional level and that encouragement should be given to individual institutions to support those agreements.