The British government’s Cabinet Office has published an Open Source Procurement Toolkit as part of its ongoing information and communications strategy.
From the site:
The purpose of this toolkit is to ensure that there is a level playing field for open source and proprietary software and that some of the myths associated with open source are dispelled.
Links:
- All about Open Source v1 (pdf, 490kb)
- All about Open Source v1 0 (odf, 121kb)
- ICT Advice Note - Procurement of Open Source (pdf, 169kb)
- ICT Advice Note - Procurement of Open Source (odf, 37kb)
- Open Source Options v1.0 (pdf, 581kb)
- Open Source Options v1.0 (odf, 125kb)
- Total Cost of Ownership - things to consider v1.0 (pdf, 124kb)
- Total Cost of Ownership - things to consider v1.0 (odf, 198kb)
- PPN Open Source (pdf, 122kb)
- PPN Open Source (odf, 14kb)