Crown Commercial Service
Key Service Alignment:
Financial Strategy and Advice
Procurement
Innovation and Digital
Regeneration, Place Design & Built Environment
About us and how we can help
CCS are focused on helping their local government colleagues achieve the best possible outcomes from their procurements. They understand your priorities and their trusted category experts can provide valuable support and advice, ensuring that you get the most appropriate and competitive solution to meet your needs.
CCS are the biggest public procurement organisation in the UK and play an important role helping the UK public sector save money when buying common goods and services. Their commercial expertise helps buyers in central government and across the public and third sectors to purchase everything from locum doctors and laptops to police cars and electricity. The collective purchasing power of their customers, plus their procurement knowledge, means that CCS can get the best commercial deals in the interests of taxpayers.
Crown Commercial Service is committed to making it easier for small businesses to win public sector contracts by developing routes to market that offer opportunities to organisations of all size. (https://www.crowncommercial.gov.uk/news/feedback-informs-new-construction-opportunity-for-smes)
The Construction Playbook is a government guidance document about sourcing and contracting public works projects and was launched by Cabinet Office in December 2020. In this blog, John Welch, Deputy Director Construction explains what The Construction Playbook is, what this means for wider public sector organisations and how it can transform and drive success in your buildings projects. (https://www.crowncommercial.gov.uk/news/the-construction-playbook-what-is-it-and-what-does-it-mean-for-you?utm_source=partnership&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=townsfund)