NEW PUBLIC SECTOR AGREEMENT SAVES MONEY AND IMPROVES CHOICE
The public sector in the United Kingdom is aiming to support the delivery of public services with cost-effective technology that allows Information and Communications Technology (ICT) to become a key agent for change. The Public Sector Agreement (PSA09) provides all public sector organisations with best pricing, matches business needs, and nsures a continued focus on public service delivery.
Economy, efficiency, and effectiveness are the principal drivers for all government organisations when making choices about ICT solutions. The joint vision agreed by Microsoft and Buying Solutions for the Public Sector Agreement (PSA09) states: “The new generation agreement will support public service delivery with a flexible and agile set of Microsoft solutions that maximise value for money for the public sector.”
Under PSA09, organisations simply pay for what they need by function rather than product. PSA09 is a volume-based software licensing agreement that delivers more benefits than previous agreements. It takes advantage of purchasing power across the public sector to ensure better value for all organisations that use Microsoft software.
By signing up, any public sector organisation regardless of size stands to benefit from the flexibility, pricing, and simpler transferability of the rights to use software. This flexibility helps match business needs to technology for all organisations and accelerates the pace of public sector reform.
PSA09 recognises that efficiency in the public sector is driven by people as much as by the automation of business processes. The aim is to support new ways.
of working and encourage closer collaboration in the workplace and with other stakeholders and statutory partners.
PSA09 allows public sector organisations to align their ICT requirements directly to their business needs. This ensures that the agreement reflects the roles and responsibilities that employees fulfil, including people who only need access to technology for specific tasks and not for their every day work.
PSA09 also helps to promote the delivery of the nationwide public service reform agenda. It encourages organisations to use technology to reform public services to benefit citizens, businesses, taxpayers, and front-line staff and to reshape services around the needs and preferences of users.
By saving money on Microsoft software, public sector organisations can better support their external partnerships and redirect funding into front-line public services while meeting the key performance indicators set for them by policy makers.
"Ensuring value for money, matching business needs and improving public service delivery"
