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26/10/2006 17:11
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Birmingham City Council is to begin utilising Sap software in a bid to develop e-procurement and e-tendering options in order to save £1 billion.
The deal signed with Sap represents the UK's biggest software contract involving the government. The resultant venture, Service Birmingham, was created and will replace the old system in 2007.
The new software is designed to promote increase cost-efficiency at the council which will give the citizens an improved level of service according to Brendan Arnold, director of corporate finance at Birmingham City Council.
Mr Arnold said: "We will revolutionise purchasing across the city, using technologies such as e-procurement and e-tendering."
"It will change the experiences of the way people contact us, which is important because Birmingham is a multi-service authority providing services to more than a million people," he continued.
The entire selection of Sap software will be used by the council as they transform it transforms the way they handle their it handles its online activities. This includes procurement, finance and customer relationship relationships.
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