Environment Agency touts greenest IT contract ever

James S Murray
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New outsourcing contract's sustainability criteria hoped to be used as template for future government IT deals

Just a day after the government unveiled plans to ensure its entire IT estate carbon neutral by 2013, the Environment Agency has revealed it is on track to sign "the most sustainable green government IT...

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