@U.K. PLC announced that the company has received purchase orders for £190,000 of which £112,000 has already been paid.  The company has collected over £220,000 in cash so far in 2013 relating to these and other contracts and expects to see strong positive cash flow in the coming months. Serco has purchased an extension of the @UK marketplace for Hertfordshire County Council to allow the council to sell its in-house services to schools and academies. This is a significant new market. Academies are now separate from local authorities and are no longer required to purchase services from their local authority.

Local authorities therefore need to transform the services that they offer to academies, such as Legal, Finance, Standards, Improvement and Supplies so that they are easy to purchase, well marketed and continue to provide good value for money to the academies. Bristol City Council as a customer of @UK is expected to be highly beneficial to @UK both in terms of acting as a flagship reference site to the local authority sector and demonstrating best practice to the wider public sector. JISC Advance has contracted with @UK to provide an ecommerce marketplace for Work Based Learning, extending the GeM system. The Work Based Learning marketplace is a new exercise to bring the benefits of nationally-negotiated contracts and efficient procurement practice to the private sector Work Based Learning providers.  This system will allow the providers to purchase supplies at better rates via the marketplace, taking the benefit of drawing together the £170 million that Work Based Learning suppliers spend each year with their suppliers, with the potential to benefit from leveraging the £2 billion spent by universities and colleges.