| LONDON--(Marketwire - February 3, 2010) - Emptoris, | | | | direct response to National Audit Office (NAO) and |
| Inc., a leading global provider of strategic supply | | | | the Office of Government Compliance (OGC) |
| management and enterprise contract management | | | | Capability Review recommendations. |
| software, today announced that the Ministry of | | | | According to Justin Sadler-Smith, Emptoris |
| Justice of the British Government has selected the | | | | Government Sector Director, The Emptoris Sourcing |
| Emptoris Spend Analysis, Contract Management and | | | | solutions will allow the Authority to source the best |
| Sourcing software solutions to help drive greater | | | | products and services from suppliers while driving |
| efficiencies and savings across the agency's | | | | cost competitiveness, minimising supply base risk and |
| operations. | | | | reducing sourcing cycle time. The Emptoris Spend |
| "The Ministry of Justice, along with other government | | | | Analysis software will allow the organisation to collect |
| departments, must continually work to encourage | | | | and organise spend data from across disperse |
| efficiencies and drive savings in every aspect of its | | | | systems and locations to provide an accurate, |
| operations," Vincent Godfrey, Director of | | | | up-to-date, view into spending. Spend analysis will |
| Procurement, with the Ministry of Justice. | | | | enable the Authority to better identify savings |
| "Implementing spend analysis, e-sourcing and contract | | | | opportunities across the organisation, monitor the |
| management solutions will underpin our end-to-end | | | | effectiveness of savings initiatives, and automate |
| procurement process and deliver a consistent | | | | spend classification to provide granular spend visibility. |
| capability across the Ministry of Justice, which will | | | | Finally, the Emptoris Contract Management software |
| provide considerable support to our drive for | | | | will allow the organisation to structure stronger |
| efficiency and enabling us to realise significant | | | | contracts, streamline contracting processes, and |
| savings." | | | | improve contract quality and compliance. |
| The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is one of the British | | | | The Ministry of Justice will work with Emptoris and |
| government's largest departments, with around | | | | HP, the Authority's consulting partner, to help drive |
| 95,000 employees, managing 650 courts and 139 | | | | implementation and adoption of the solutions across |
| prisons, as well as a budget of £9.2 billion. Every | | | | the organisation, and expects to have the sourcing |
| year around nine million people use the Ministry's | | | | and spend analysis solutions in use by early 2010 and |
| services. The Ministry mission is to protect the public | | | | the contracts management solution in place by mid |
| and reduce reoffending, and to provide a more | | | | 2010. |
| effective, transparent and responsive criminal justice | | | | Emptoris is a clear leader in providing supply and |
| system for victims and the public. | | | | contract management solutions to the public sector, |
| The Ministry of Justice plans to leverage the Emptoris | | | | with entities such as the UK Government's Home |
| Spend Analysis, Sourcing and Contract Management | | | | Office and HM Revenue and Customs, employing its |
| solutions as "key enablers" for its wider Procurement | | | | solutions, as well as the U.S. Postal Service and the |
| Success Programme. The solutions will extend and | | | | Department of the Treasury for the State of New |
| complement the Ministry's Enterprise Resource | | | | Jersey, one of the largest U.S. state governments. |
| Planning (ERP) systems, including by providing | | | | Emptoris solutions are available to UK public sector |
| advance data analysis capability both on an individual | | | | organisations under a Government Department |
| agency and consolidated basis for reporting across | | | | Approved Framework. |
| the Ministry. | | | | Emptoris is consistently recognised by independent |
| The Ministry expects the solutions to improve and | | | | research firms as a leader in supply and contract |
| standardise the agency's sourcing and e-sourcing | | | | management software based on its "heavyweight |
| capabilities, as well as provide new capability to | | | | functionality," "ability to execute," and its track record |
| underpin strategic contract management activity in | | | | of innovation. |