The UK government’s eMarketplace has seen a 90 percent increase in transactions. The service established in 2006 and hosted by Procserve provides a procurement network of over 20,000 suppliers to government departments.

Procserve CEO Nigel Clifford said that the increase was a result of an increasing focus on procurement by the public sector.

Mr Clifford said “There is now a view that procurement is important and can lead to less painful ways of achieving cost reductions. Look at the Department for Work and Pensions as an example. It is using our electronic tools to run mini competitions to find training courses for the long-term unemployed.”