Susan Wright will report on progress at the next meeting. This has been circulated to various interested parties. The marketing of national agreements needs to be improved. 9.3 Susan Wright suggested that national agreements should only be considered if an adequate business case was made for their establishment and this was agreed by the heads of each of the regional consortia. EC tenders for national agreements should only proceed after receiving support from at least five out of the eight regional consortia.
More work is required to improve the pages.
Nothing to report. LUPC have gone out to tender for a file server agreement. David Cousans has resigned from the job of Group Purchasing Co-ordinator. Ian Robshaw announced his resignation from the Hardware Supply Group, to take effect after the next meeting. SUPC is investigating the feasibility of an agreement for the supply of computer components for repair work.