How we can help you
By making your buying decisions with CCS, you will have access to:
- our commercial solutions and assisted service free of charge
- a dedicated account management team on hand to help you identify the right agreement to achieve the best possible value
- our category expertise and national buying power
That’s how we helped the police and emergency services achieve £29.8 million in commercial benefits including savings in 2019/20.
We are also developing a partnership with newly formed BlueLight Commercial to support the commercial capability of the sector by helping manage suppliers in line with national approaches, drive supplier performance and innovations and achieve local social value.
We can help you buy a wide variety of common goods and services. Here are just some of the solutions that we can help you with:
- Specialist Courier Services which includes the transportation and destruction of firearms
- Traffic Management Technology
- Facilities Management Marketplace
- Linen and Laundry Services
- Technology Products and Associated Services for radio airwave networks
- Vehicle Telematics Hardware and Software Solutions
By working together, you can tap into our national buying power and join the growing number of customers saving millions for their organisations every year.
Making responsible buying decisions
Our commercial agreements can help you achieve your sustainability and social value objectives and address the risk of modern slavery.
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