Services company Serco has this week joined the list of major ICT suppliers who have agreed to Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude's new approach to delivering ICT to central government.

"I am very pleased that we have signed our MoU with the UK government and we look forward to continuing to support our customer in the delivery of essential public services,” said Serco’s chief executive Christopher Hyman.

Maude's rolling “memorandum of understanding” (MoU) process is getting vendors to agree on ways to provide efficiencies for central government procurement and project management.

The firm says savings in the way it works with Whitehall will be made through scope changes and cost efficiencies and are not material to the group's financial expectations.

The firm recently caused controversy with a demand that to meet Maude's targets it expected a 2.5% cut in all costs from its own supply chain.

The demand was later withdrawn and the services giant apologised to its suppliers.

Source: http://www.publictechnology.net/sector/central-gov/serco-latest-sign-maudes-mou