How we can help you
Today, more than ever, procurement has a vital role to play in supporting and strengthening our public sector and we know that for all organisations within the social housing sector, tight control over budgets and resources is a key priority.
You can use our commercial solutions free of charge, and we’re committed to helping you achieve the best possible value and generate cashable savings for your organisation by leveraging our category expertise and national buying power. We recognise the importance of social value for your residents and communities and have put in place the deals and support to allow you to place this at the heart of your procurement.
We want to empower you to get the best possible value from your procurement and join the growing number of housing providers who are making great savings with CCS every year.
Key solutions for housing providers
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Construction Works and Associated Services
All types of major and minor building, and civil engineering works.
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Facilities Management and Workplace Services
A range of Facilities Management (FM) services from cleaning and waste services to maintenance services and landscaping.
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Building Materials and Equipment
A range of building materials, equipment and associated services.
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Data and Application Solutions
Software-led office systems including software licences, associated hardware, app-related consultancy services, software support and maintenance.
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G-Cloud 12
Cloud-based computing services such as hosting, software and cloud support, including many off-the-shelf, pay-as-you-go cloud solutions.
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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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Modular Building Solutions
The design, fabrication, delivery, construction or installation and maintenance of modular buildings for purchase or hire.
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Housing Maintenance & Repair (upcoming soon)
A range of housing repair and maintenance services for both tenanted and void (empty) properties.
Delivering social value
Making responsible buying decisions and using procurement to deliver social value
Our commercial agreements can help you achieve your sustainability and social value objectives and address the risk of modern slavery.
Housing sector challenges and how we are helping meet those
Our commercial agreements can help you with your procurement needs and tackle some of the key 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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Provision of 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 building solutions
Longer-term solutions for providing temporary accommodation can also be procured through our Modular Buildings 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.
Watch the short video to learn all about our Procurement Essentials series. You can also view the transcript.
Our bitesize guides to common procurement concepts
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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Commercial Insider: John Welch, Deputy Director for Construction at Crown Commercial Service
Commercial Insider is a series of interviews with procurement experts from across Crown Commercial Service.
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Our new offsite construction agreement has been awarded
CCS has awarded a new agreement for offsite construction, which aims to support the public sector to innovate, drive efficiency and continue to work towards their CNZ targets
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Legacy vs cloud ICT infrastructure
In this blog, our technology experts discuss how you can overcome some of the challenges associated with legacy ICT and outline a better way forward.
Read more about Legacy vs cloud ICT infrastructure
Bringing power to your procurement
Your buying decisions have the power to make life better for everyone across the country. Find out why you should be making those decisions with CCS.
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
CCS customer services team is available Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm.
Email:
info@crowncommercial.gov.uk
Telephone:
0345 410 2222