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Computerworld reports: Govt ICT review to focus on productivity gains
The emphasis will be on encouraging developments that will improve productivity in government agencies. Improved productivity is defined as “being able to reduce costs or obtain more cost-effective resultsâ€. This, in turn, is expected to have a material effect on the overall economy.
Reducing the waste of effort in ongoing RFP requirements is an obvious one that I’ve mentioned many times before but I was disturbed that there was no mention of the impact that Government Procurement has on developing export businesses.
Here is the logic (again)
- New Zealand needs to export so we have a more favourable Balance of Payments and create new wealth and more jobs that in turn leads to more taxes better social services, education etc.
- The New Zealand Government spends more money that any other organisation.
- For companies to grow they need revenue and reference customers.
- Therefore New Zealand Government procurement policies have a huge impact on the development of new export oriented companies, especially in software.
It is therefore concerning that this was not pulled out as major objective in the Computerworld piece.
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