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Francis Maude called end "rich margins" ?45bn goods and services purchased by the central Government each year photo: Paul Grover

Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude said central Government must become a better buyer of goods and services of small and medium-sized enterprises.

In an interview with your company, Mr. Maude said it plans to break large IT contracts so that UK companies can plant for the work and also called Whitehall departments to become less harmful risk during the selection of suppliers.

Dr. Maude said: "it is certainly the case where a large number of central Government argues against the effective participation and the participation of small businesses, SMEs."

"Part of which is the way that get; extremely long, long drawn out, ladies and pre-qualification process, tiring." And very risk adverse supply be required to provide exactly the same services at exactly the same client public sector in a manner which prevents the newer, younger, more flexible and more flexible suppliers to compete in the entreprises.Cela history means that you have a less competitive, less involvement and a result of the poor Tower.?

Dr. Maude said that he had no control over the purchase of local government practices but had Whitehall aspiration 25pc of its annual procurement budget expenditure of ￡ 45bn with SMEs.

"We make easier, less costly and less burdensome [for SMEs]", he said. "We are not going to order it more contracts actually goes to small businesses, but we will order that supply system should be executed so that it confronts to small businesses.

"There are benefits obvious que.Ils are more likely to be based in the United Kingdom, are more likely to be innovative, it is a market more competitive supply it y anything to say about it... and it will create jobs."

The Cabinet Office is rolling a standard prequalification across Whitehall next month, which Mr. Maude said questionnaire will be "mandatory" for central Government contract offerings and should reduce the paper burden for small businesses.

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