The collaboration between British Telecom, ICL, and McCormack & Dodge which produced General Ledger for ICL systems is continuing with the new Telco Finance System which will provide distributed purchasing systems throughout British Telecom: the agreement comes after the successful completion of the benchmark tests with McCormack & Dodge’s Millenium running on an ICL Series 39 dual node level 80 mainframe; the Telco system will be used to distribute Telecom’s purchasing function to the Districts while retaining central budgetary control; the system’s first implementation will be the Purchase Order package for the West of Scotland district, with the planned national completion date scheduled for 1991.