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Procurement. You know the power it can hold.
Your buying decisions have the power to make the NHS stronger. Find out how CCS can help bring power to your procurement.
Case studies
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IT hardware aggregation achieves customer savings of up to 30% in 2021
Customers achieved an average of 14% savings against estimated market values by taking part in the latest IT hardware aggregation.
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Customers save more than £7 million on IT hardware
Discover how we helped 28 customers save on average 36% on IT hardware in our latest aggregation.
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14 NHS trusts save £4 million on mobile voice and data services
Customers achieved an average of 70% savings against previously paid costs by taking part in a recent mobile voice and data services aggregated procurement.
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News and blogs
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How to evaluate bids – Procurement Essentials
Procurement Essentials is a new series of articles to help you overcome common hurdles, understand key concepts, and make your life as a buyer of everyday goods and services easier.
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Customer newsletters for January
Every month our customer newsletters feature the latest news, webinars, events and aggregation opportunities for the sectors you work in.
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Help us evaluate for our new public sector mobile voice and data services framework
In 2020 we began an innovative project to improve the procurement of UK public sector mobile voice and data services.
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Making responsible buying decisions
Your buying decisions have the power to boost your local economy, make our society fairer, strengthen communities and make our future greener. We are helping you do this by building modern slavery prevention, social value and sustainability into our commercial agreements.
Becoming a HCSA member adds power to your procurement
The Health Care Supply Association (HCSA) promotes the work of procurement and supply chain staff at all levels in healthcare. Providing a variety of training events and educational seminars, HCSA focuses on supporting the personal and professional development of its members and the NHS procurement profession.
As a corporate partner, CCS works closely with HCSA to support the valuable work they do across the health sector to improve procurement quality and knowledge. This is why we’re encouraging our customers to become a member, free of charge, and access a range of exciting benefits:
- online discussion forum and online help and advice service
- access to the HCSA’s training and development study days
- preferential rates for HCSA events
Powerful procurement solutions for the NHS
We’re working with NHS Procurement in Partnership to provide health workforce services as the NHS Workforce Alliance. We can also help you access business consultancy, legal advice, language services, occupational health, contact centre services and more.
Whether you want to optimise your organisation’s finances, need help managing your fleet and travel arrangements or need support with document management and logistics – we’re here to help.
We’re constantly exploring new ways of working and solutions that reflect the best use of technology. From cloud, digital and hosting solutions to network services, software to technology products and services. We provide connectivity for the NHS and wider health and social care organisations by enabling access to the Health and Social Care Network (HSCN) and also offer a range of technology bulk buying opportunities to help you achieve best value.
On-demand webinars
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Delivering social value through public sector procurement
We will discuss the implications of the Social Value Act on public sector buyers and the growing demand for social value through contracts.
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Tackling modern slavery in our supply chains
Stamping out modern slavery in our supply chains is one of the UK government's top priorities. Watch our webinar to find out more.
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Your Carbon Net Zero journey...let CCS help you towards a greener future
In 2019 the UK became the first major economy to pass laws to end its contribution to global warming by 2050. Watch our webinar to find out how CCS can help you on this journey.
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