Crown Commercial Service’s Annual Report and Accounts for 2024/25 is published

Ensuring value for the nation

We’ve published our latest Annual Report and Accounts demonstrating significant progress to ensure a greater focus on achieving the best commercial and procurement outcomes for UK citizens. 

Sam Ulyatt, who succeeded Simon Tse as Chief Executive of CCS in July 2024, said: 

It’s a pleasure to be publishing my first CCS Annual Report and Accounts as the Chief Executive and Accounting Officer.

Our purpose is to bring value to the nation on common goods and services and I am delighted that CCS continues to do this. As our product portfolio continues to mature and improve, we can achieve even more through our solutions, by further aggregating the buying power of the public sector.

In our work this year to reaffirm our strategy, purpose, ambition, vision and values, we have ensured that we are well positioned to maximise the opportunities that the new government, new regulations and new ways of working across the public sector will bring.

Helping the public sector meet the government’s aim to work with more SMEs

We’ve continued to make good progress with our efforts to enable small and medium-sized enterprises to participate in our commercial agreements, with £2.3 billion (10%) of central government spend directly with 1,468 SMEs. We continue to design our commercial agreements so that SMEs are able to benefit and that is why 75% of the suppliers on CCS’s commercial agreements are micro (33%), small (28%) or medium (14%) sized enterprises. 

Chair of the CCS Board, Peter George said:

As Chair of the Board, it has been reassuring that CCS has continued to go from strength to strength in 2024/25, not least in part thanks to Sam’s and the Executive Committee’s leadership. 

We have once again achieved significant commercial benefits for our customers and the organisation is exceptionally well placed to support the government’s missions, and to provide the efficiency and productivity needed across the public sector.

Read the full report

You can read CCS’s annual report and accounts on gov.uk.

You can find a full list of all the commercial agreements CCS offers, alongside details of how CCS can help you build policy considerations into your procurement, in our interactive digital brochure. 

To learn more about Sam Ulyatt’s vision and priorities for CCS, read her article in Civil Service World.