Housing associations
As the UK’s central commercial and procurement organisation, CCS helps housing providers achieve better value in every purchase. We understand that tight budgets and social value are top priorities in your sector. Our expertise guides you through simpler, faster procurement processes that free up your resources for what truly matters – your tenants and communities. We connect housing associations with capable, diverse suppliers who provide innovative solutions to your challenges. Our commercial agreements are free to use and designed to generate significant savings for your organisation while maintaining the social value that’s central to your mission.
Commercial agreements for social housing providers
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Housing Maintenance and Repair
A range of housing repair and maintenance services for both tenanted and void (empty) properties.
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Facilities Management
A range of Facilities Management (FM) services from cleaning and waste services to maintenance services and landscaping.
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Fleet solutions
Complete vehicle services including purchase, maintenance, hire, leasing and smart fleet management.
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Debt resolution services
Debt recovery and associated services including data, fraud and error, litigation and spend analysis recovery.
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Technology solutions
All our technology agreements from G-Cloud to Network Services to improve operations and deliver better outcomes.
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All agreements
Solutions to all your procurement needs including construction, financial services, building materials and more.
Housing sector challenges and how we are helping meet those
Our commercial agreements can help you with your procurement needs and tackle some of your important challenges.
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Carbon net zero
We understand that registered social landlords have a significant part to play in responding to the climate emergency. We are here to help you with our wide range of carbon net zero solutions.
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Building safety
CCS is committed to helping you to manage your buildings safely. We work with our stakeholders and suppliers to ensure that all relevant industry standards will be met or exceeded through our commercial agreements.
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Digital transformation and innovation
Through our range of market-leading IT solutions, you can access suppliers who can provide cloud-based solutions, deliver digital transformation and help you to become less dependent on legacy technologies.
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Emergency accommodation
Our Travel and Venue Solutions agreement offers a specific crisis management service which includes emergency accommodation and repatriation support.
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Modular buildings
Longer-term solutions for providing temporary accommodation can also be procured through our Offsite Construction Solutions agreement.
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Debt recovery and payment management
We’ve helped many organisations like yours to both save and recover millions of pounds via our suite of financial services agreements.
Digital brochure
In this brochure, discover how we support housing providers like you to achieve better value when procuring essential services – from maintenance and repairs to energy solutions. Learn about our commercial agreements tailored to housing sector needs and how to access them to benefit your tenants and communities.
Watch the short video to learn all about our Procurement Essentials series. You can also view the transcript.
Procurement Essentials
Our new Procurement Essentials series covers a wide range of topics to help demystify the procurement process including the basics of frameworks, effective contract management, how to evaluate bids, and how to write a specification.
We’ll be continuing to add new articles every month, sharing our top tips and guidance to help you save time, maximise every pound and bring power to your procurement.
You can now find all of our Procurement Essentials articles in one place.
Blogs, news and case studies
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Call for assessors for Construction Professional Services 2 commercial agreement
Get involved in developing our new Construction Professional Services 2 agreement.
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Call for evaluators for the latest iteration of the Facilities Management and Security Services agreement
Get involved in developing our new Facilities Management and Security Services agreement.
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CCS recognised for providing high quality public service
CCS achieves ‘Best’ rating in Commercial Continuous Improvement Assessment
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Get in touch
We're here to help power your procurement. Tell us if there is something we can help you with and one of our expert team members will be in touch.
Talk to us
You can also contact us by email or phone
Email: info@crowncommercial.gov.uk
Telephone: 0345 410 2222
CCS customer services team is available Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm.