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What the media is saying
…anyone spending public money should be obliged to make the most of the taxpayers’ revenues at their disposal, and buy according to independently determined price:performance figures.
- -Tony Smith, The Register (May 3, 2005)
Regulators are investigating whether some European governments illegally favored Intel Corp. chips in public procurement of computers, the European Commission said.
- -William Echikson, The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswire (April 21, 2004)
On Monday, the Office of Management and Budget sent a memo to senior government procurement officials reminding them to stop using brand name specifications in procurements because the practice violates federal regulations, stifles competition and risks limiting small-business participation.
- -Charles Babcock, The Washington Post (April 15, 2005)
The White House this week told U.S. federal agencies to stop specifying brand names in procurement contracts, a practice it says leads to higher prices for everything from paper clips to personal computers and hurts the livelihoods of smaller vendors.
- -Daniel Sorid, Reuters (April 14, 2005)
Rather than specify brands, which shuts out some computer makers, officials should set performance benchmarks or specify requirements for applications and interoperability…
- -Michael Hardy, Federal Computer Week (April 14, 2005)
Of late, some experts believe AMD has secured a technological edge over Intel with its Athlon and Opteron processors. Yet in Britain and much of Europe, sales of AMD-powered systems to government and big business remain modest. Why?
- -Paul Durman, The Sunday Times (March 20, 2005)
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