What are some of the benefits to purchasers of items under Procure IT?
• The major benefit is that Customers will be able to access, on line, ready-made order forms prepared by the State Contracts Control Board, suitable for the purchase they wish to make. • On-line access to contractual terms and conditions, user guides and order forms. • The usual advantages of panel contract arrangements remain, with the market already having been tested for Customers. Customers can make orders and seek quotations under the panels as they have always done. • A modular approach means that customers will have more certainty as to which contractual clauses govern their orders. This will also allow the addition of further modules as needed eg Open Source Software • Overall, the document has been simplified, shortened, and brought up-to-date • New modules have been added to account for new technologies • Important clauses will now be subject to greater certainty • A Risk Assessment process for the capping of liability in high risk projects will ensure that decisions to agre
