3 - e-Procurement v e-Business
The Rural Councils may consider e-Procurement may give then centralised buying power but the Councils should be able to negotiate that anyway thought the Regional Organisation of Councils
The key issue for a Rural Council is generating income without increasing the costs of generating that new income.
The key issues is e-Business not e-Procurement.
e-Business starts with the tender process and tender performance not with receiving quotations for e-Procurement