The report concludes that over two-thirds of the expenditure with accredited suppliers is impossible to track. However it is clear that licenses and services supplied by global proprietary software vendors and a single hardware supplier account for 70% of all sales.
Dr. John Spencer, Head of Education at Sirius Corporation an the author of the report said: “It is unacceptable that so much money should be spend so indiscriminately. “Becta appears to operate a closed shop of ICT vendors which is limiting innovation in schools.”