When you are in hospital looking at expensive gear in theatre ( let's hope they sedate you before cutting anything!)...think that maybe ( only maybe) the purchase is due to the careful efforts of ATUK helping the NHS....or not?

Investors appear to have been happy to break my first rule -pay no more than 50p for AIM-stock - for it started at 2005 at 65p
Today it's about 2p with a certainty early investors will be diluted at maybe 1p, so in effect the Money-bags are buying your company for almost a hundredth of the price you paid (allowing for spread, charges etc.).

My second rule has thus been created...don't invest in AIM.

ravey

re - I suggest you see a shrink

    TAKING THE PISS

I am one of them

How do you think I reached the conclution that you are a SPINSTER
You are a CAT Lady
and a STALKER

and I do not know you?
but eventualy you said it was true

A last week comment, interesting to have it on the thread on looking forward to the 7 October 2010. ...


E-market shows buyers carbon footprint of goods
Defra minister to cut red ribbon in official launch next month

Andrew Charlesworth, BusinessGreen, -- 17 Sep 2010

An online procurement market, which enables buyers to see a calculation of the carbon footprint of the products they are buying, will be officially launched by Richard Benyon, minister for natural environment and fisheries on 7 October 2010.

The e-market, @UK PLC is already active and has accumulated over 1 million users to date.

The carbon footprint of products available on the site is calculated using e2class, @UKPLCs ethical and environmental classification system, which combines data from the Stockholm Environment Institute and the Centre for Sustainable Accounting with the e-markets own GreenInsight artificial intelligence tools, @UKPLCs chairman Ronald Duncan told Businessgreen.com.

The site was originally announced at the Business of Bio-Diversity Summit on 14 July this year and will also allow buyers to buy carbon off-sets for their purchases.

Since then @UK PLC has made significant changes to its business model ready for the launch, promoting its suppliers to the wider internet in an open format. Previously the 3 million products available on the @UK PLC e-procurement platform have only been available to a limited number of buying organisations and through search engine promotion of the individual supplier sites.

The site has proved popular with UK public sector organisations: Duncan says almost every one of the largest 5,000 public sector organisations purchases through the site. He hopes to recruit the UKs 25,000 schools to site too, as well as many more private sector organisations.

Google is also supporting next months launch with a promotion to the sites customers of an in-kind value of 10m, to encourage customers to increase their Google-based advertising and traffic through the site.

and another one ...........

@UK PLC is the leading Electronic marketplace, with over 1 million users. We believe that @UK PLC has significantly more users than all the other UK marketplaces combined, and that we are probably the largest transactional b2b marketplace providing integrated eCommerce and eProcurement worldwide

The entire set of solutions is built on @UK PLC's CloudGenerator platform, which is the No 2 Cloud platform globally after SalesForce, and the No 1 eBusiness cloud platform.

5.875 (5.50 - 6.25p) +0.75p

today is meaning business, a very strong start, with steady buying

roll on Oct 7th!

others on the cloud computing are doing well ........

Iomart tops targets

Cloud computing services specialist Iomart Group said it continues to trade strongly, experiencing increasing demand for its products and services.

The group consequently expects to report interim results ahead of market expectations.

Iomart said it is encouraged by the growing pipeline of opportunities and expect that results for the full year will also be ahead of market expectations.

Angus McSween, CEO of Iomart, commented: "Our strong levels of trading are tangible evidence of the success of our cloud based hosting strategy. The investments we have made into our infrastructure have significantly improved our competitive positioning, enabling us to benefit from the growing momentum behind cloud computing.

"This growth in cloud computing is still in its early stages and we will continue to seek means of increasing our share of what is a highly fragmented market. With a proven reputation and a strong financial position we believe we are very well positioned to accelerate our growth both organically and through strategic acquisitions. We therefore enter the second half of the year with confidence, focused on the delivery of increasing shareholder value this year and in the years ahead."

Just Website launch Today at 4pm. Also announced Contract win this morning.

7 October 2010 -- @UK PLC

Contract Win
Findel Education the First sign-up to @UK's newly launched Green Marketplace

@UK, the AIM-traded eMarketplace and provider of eProcurement and eCommerce
software is pleased to announce that Findel Education, the UK's largest
educational supplier, will be the first supplier to sign up to the Company's new
Green Marketplace. The value of the contract is expected to be approximately
GBP50,000.

The Green Marketplace is part of the Company's new online Marketplace which is
being launched today at 4pm by Richard Benyon MP, Minister for Natural
Environment and Fisheries. Through use of the Green Marketplace Findel
Education will be able to publish the environmental impact of each of its
products and provide the ability to offset the environmental impact, thereby
effectively reducing the carbon footprint of its catalogue to zero.

The Directors believe that Findel Education, which is known for brands such as
GLS, NES Arnold and Hope Education will be the largest catalogue in the world to
be carbon neutral.

Findel Education has taken advantage of the pre-launch discount from GBP3 per
item to 90p for e2class classification. The pre-launch discount will end at 4pm
on 7 October and other suppliers seeking to become carbon neutral will pay a
total of GBP4 per item comprising GBP3 for e2class and GBP1 for the carbon
footprint.

At the launch Basingstoke and North Hampshire NHS Trust will demonstrate
GreenInsight. GreenInsight is charged at GBP12,000 per organisation, and
provides a detailed breakdown of the environmental impact of all expenditure.
There are approximately 5,000 public sector bodies that could purchase
GreenInsight.

The market size for @UK carbon footprinting services is approximately 3.6
million products that have been analysed by SpendInsight of which 3 million
products are on the @UK marketplace.

Ronald Duncan, Executive Chairman of @UK PLC commented:

"We are delighted that Findel Education has made use of our technical
breakthroughs to become the first large catalogue world wide to be carbon
neutral and kick off our program to get every product on our marketplace
certified as carbon neutral."

Looks like its coming together for ATUK. Not bad for a 2.5 million capped company. The procurement card will be a significant boost for the company.

The new package offers a combination of integrated technologies which include a spend analysis, green analysis, eMarketplace and securely embedded Government Procurement Card.


>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>news on 1 November 2010

@UK/BARCLAYCARD COMMERCIAL PACKAGE GUARANTEES COST SAVINGS FOR UNIVERSITIES

An e-procurement package for the Higher Education Sector, launched jointly by
@UK and Barclaycard Commercial, gives participating universities guaranteed cost
savings. The joint campaign follows recent news that the Higher Education
Funding Council for England (HEFCE) has earmarked up to GBP6m for an
e-procurement fund.

GBP5m of the funding has been reserved for individual universities to help them
establish an eMarketplace, and HEFCE has retained the additional GBP1m to
establish a generic eMarketplace for the 129 Higher Education Institutions.

Universities had to apply for funding of up to GBP60K by 3rd September. They
have received their funding offers - estimated to be between GBP2m and GBP3m -
and are now in the process of procuring appropriate technologies. This funding
must be spent - and solutions implemented - by March 2011.

Comments @UK Chairman Ronald Duncan: 'Our current campaign with Barclaycard
Commercial builds on our joint work in the NHS. Barclaycard are market leaders
in the Higher Education Sector, and we believe that, this foundation, coupled
with the guaranteed savings offered by our package will ensure rapid acceptance
by the universities.'

He continues 'Other Government sectors are seeking to achieve in year savings
after the 2010 Comprehensive Spending Review, and we believe that we have a
unique solution that both maximises savings whilst exceeding green objectives.'

The new package offers a combination of integrated technologies which include a
spend analysis, green analysis, eMarketplace and securely embedded Government
Procurement Card. The mixture of technologies is designed to provide each
participating University with guaranteed savings in the current year. The spend
analysis will identify cashable savings, as well as providing accurate data to
forecast revenues from the use of the embedded Government Procurement Card. The
eMarketplace will harness all of this information and provide a controlled
environment for ongoing procurement and the identification of savings. ROI
analysis shows that savings of GBP500,000 to GBP1m are achievable for
organisations of this size, using this mix of technologies from the GBP100
billion of spend that has already been analysed by the @UK Spend Analysis system
SpendInsight.

Cielo

New thread started http://www.moneyam.com/InvestorsRoom/posts.php?tid=15437#lastread

All the way to 13p earlier, and being second day of a strong rise.

What is going on? well being on a BREAKOUT the sky is the limit, they say

Directors have been buying lately and more yesterday to a holding of 7.34% for David Holloway ...


Director Deals - @UK PLC (ATUK)

David Holloway, Non Executive Director, bought 80,387 shares in the company on the 17th January 2011 at a price of 12.44p. The Director now holds 5,150,975 shares.

i missed that!! but cheers

Share price keep moving higher after recent directors buysPurchases by directors

	18/01/2011	17/01/2011	BUY	Holloway, David	NED	80,387	12.44 p	£10,000	15.75 p	12,660.95	26.61	2,661
	14/01/2011	14/01/2011	BUY	Duncan, Ronald	CEO	100,000	12.75 p	£12,750	15.75 p	15,750.00	23.53	3,000
	14/01/2011	13/01/2011	BUY	Duncan, Ronald	CEO	50,000	11.00 p	£5,500	15.75 p	7,875.00	43.18	2,375
	12/01/2011	12/01/2011	BUY	Duncan, Ronald	CEO	100,000	10.15 p	£10,150	15.75 p	15,750.00	55.17	5,600
	22/12/2010	22/12/2010	BUY	Duncan, Ronald	CEO	107,991	4.63 p	£5,000	15.75 p	17,008.58	240.17	12,009
	04/01/2010	04/01/2010	BUY	Duncan, H. Lyn	ED	50,000	1.40 p	£700	15.75 p	7,875.00	1,025.00	7,175
Purchased jointly with Lyn Duncan who is an exec director.

12.75p +3.375p
news earlier ..............

@UK's software supports National Audit Office

Today the National Audit Office has published a procurement report on consumables buying within the NHS entitled "The procurement of consumables by NHS hospital trusts." The report is available from the National Audit Office website at www.nao.org.uk.

indeed cielo - and there is plenty more in the pipeline- each news item / win will push atuk higher & higher - imo this will be a general northerly climb for the rest of this year with th eobvious dips along the way as usual

Don't know about that, I've just bought in that's usually the kiss of death :-)

confidence maggie.....

http://www.purcon.com/news/news-archive.php?title=NHS+procurement+'must+learn+from+business'&800382799



03-02-2011

NHS trusts need to learn from the private sector to improve their purchasing processes to get better value for money, it has been claimed.

The CBI has urged trusts to "get more business-like" and make sure they are using their combined purchasing power to pay less for goods and services.

It follows a National Audit Office report on procurement processes at NHS acute and foundation trusts that identified a potential 500 million worth of savings to be made.

The study said trusts' buying of everyday medical supplies delivers "poor value for money" and called for greater collaboration to help the NHS spend less.

"Achieving economies of scale will go some way towards delivering savings of 15-20 billion by 2015," said CBI head of public services reform Elizabeth Fells.

She went on to say that "the best provider should be able to compete to deliver NHS services, whether they are from the public, private or third sector".

http://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/columns/hb-markets/4447/hb-markets-daily-smallcap-newsflash-including-synchronica-redhall-penna-consulting-kellan-group-and-others-4447.html



@UK (LON:ATUK, 9.375p, 6.58m) The report by the UK Government National Audit Office (NAO) that highlighted significant savings within the NHS should better purchasing strategies be adopted was supported by @UK providing the analysis services using the groups SpendInsight Service. Clearly this could lead to further work with both the Government and commercial clients. We move the group from a sell (at 14.25p with a 10p fair value on 21/1/11) to a HOLD. (Julian Tolley)

dont follow tb personally but hey ho....

'Why small caps look set to rocket this year By Tom Bulford

Who will be the share heroes of 2011?

So it is no surprise to see natural resource shares amongst the early movers in 2010. Roxi Petroleum (LON:RXP), Beowulf Mining (LON:BEM), Amur Minerals (LON:AMC), Tertiary Minerals (LON:TYM), Namibian Resources (LON:NBR) and Atlantic Coal (LON:ATC) have already made strong gains.

Bio-energy play Viridas (LON:VIR) is amongst the leaders as is Third Quad Capital (LON:TQC), which has announced a possible sale of its software business.

Distressed lender Davenham Group (LON:DAV) has seen its shares bounce on the back of a possible financial reconstruction while Crosby Asset Management (LON:CSB) is changing its spots to become an investor in natural resources.

Finally and intriguingly barging its way into the leading group is @UK Ltd (LON:ATUK), whose software enables public sector bodies to both save money and prove their green credentials.

http://www.moneyweek.com/investment-advice/penny-shares/2011-aim-markets-big-comeback-10306.aspx'