Point well made
I was actually hosting the Q&A at the meeting where this issue came out. And it truly was "accidental", in that it seemed to be mentioned as an aside by the Becta procurement person during a discussion, even though the meeting contained most of the SEN specialist suppliers AND most of the Home Access potential suppliers. Your list above, titled "The 12 Companies in the Becta framework for Home Access are:" isn't correct. That list is the 12 companies who are on Becta's Software supply framework: http://online.ogcbuyingsolutions.gov.uk/categories/ICT/software//Educationsuppliers/ The list of suppliers for Home Access is a lot shorter: Centerprise International Ltd Positive IT Solutions RM Education plc Stone Computers Ltd XMA Ltd http://news.becta.org.uk/display.cfm?resID=39103 So if you draw a nice Venn diagram, you get just one supplier who is actually covered (and No, I'm not having a go at the supplier, but at the way that this procurement is being done!) http://cid-ee41ff520c90581e.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/HomeAccessSEN.jpg I believe this was all done in complete innocence (ie the procurement simply wasn't thought through) but it is easy to see how people start conspiracy theories!
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