Peterborough City Council will save an estimated £146,000 a year
by changing the way it buys it stationery and office
supplies.
Instead of purchasing paper, pens, printer cartridges and other
stationery and IT consumables from dozens of suppliers, the council
has negotiated a new contract with Lyreco UK which will act as a
one-stop-shop for all office supplies.
The council will also be eligible for a rebate of up to 6.5 per
cent this year from the company for ordering on-line and processing
all of its invoices electronically.
Councillor Stephen Goldspink, deputy leader of the council and
Cabinet member for Efficiency and Business Improvement, said: "The
new stationery contract is just one of a number of new initiatives
introduced by our business transformation team to ensure everything
the council does is achieved as efficiently and cost-effectively as
possible."
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