"Staffordshire County Council had just published a tender for a contract worth up to \A328 million for a three year contract divided into 16 lots: " servers; storage; ICT spares; workstations; portable devices; Apple iOS devices; Microsoft software; network infrastructure components; managed wireless; cabling components; data cabinets; peripherals; support partnership; curriculum software; network management; and bundled items" Sources: <http://www.guardian.co.uk/government-computing-network/2012/mar/22/ipads-... <http://www.opensourceconsortium.org/content/view/192/89/> <http://www.essex.gov.uk/Business-Partners/Supplying-Council/Documents/110... Aside from illegally specifying particular proprietary software, this is rather telling of localgov profligacy: "The most expensive lot will be for workstations, which will cost between \A36.4m and \A312.8m, according to the notice" <hint>LTSP, Skegness Grammar School</hint> - Richard