The Ministry of Justice has pulled the plug on its End User Computing £300 million procurement programme.

The programme was designed to cover 2,300 sites within the UK, but issues including high costs and a divergence between the government’s ICT procurement strategy, which seeks to promote the use of SME suppliers, and the large enterprise level companies that were shortlisted, resulted in the halt to the process.

The UK government is now expected to seeks to divide the contract into even smaller components and move closer to the over ICT public sector strategy, with the procurement process restarting at a later date.

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