CCS to showcase digital innovation at DigiGov Expo 2025

Crown Commercial Service (CCS) will host a dedicated pavilion at this year’s DigiGov Expo, the UK’s largest public sector technology event, taking place at ExCeL London on 24-25 September 2025.

The new CCS Pavilion will bring together technology suppliers and public sector buyers, creating opportunities to explore innovative solutions that can transform public services. With the Procurement Act 2023 now in effect, the pavilion will serve as a vital hub for understanding how to maximise value in technology procurement.

DigiGov Expo will bring together over 3,000 digital, data, and technology experts from Central Government departments, local authorities, and the wider public sector, to explore the latest innovations from tech suppliers, share best practices, and address the critical challenges and priorities for public sector digital reform.

The event will also feature an AI Theatre exploring artificial intelligence in the public sector, and a Government Village where departments can share digital transformation experiences.

Philip Orumwense, Commercial Director and Chief Technology Procurement Officer, Crown Commercial Service says: 

“I am delighted that CCS will be attending the DigiGov Expo event once again. It’s a wonderful opportunity for discovery – a chance for those who buy and supply for the public sector to share their knowledge and experience.

It further demonstrates how CCS is committed to supporting effective public sector procurement and the acceleration of modern digital government.”

Public sector representatives can register now for complimentary places, available for a limited time.For more information and to register, visit the main expo website.

Call for evaluators for our new marketplace solution

We are calling for volunteers from public sector organisations to support the evaluation of the new The Marketplace solution. This agreement will replace the current Tail Spend Solution.

Evaluators are a key part of the process to deliver the procurement on time. We are looking for volunteers across the Civil Service to evaluate bids that we will receive. This is an important role and counts towards corporate contribution.

We are looking to use the Competitive Flexible Procedure under the new procurement regulations. More information about the stages and evaluation dates will follow. It is likely that evaluation of the bids will take place between June 2025 and September 2025. CCS will provide full evaluator training and our team will be on hand to provide support throughout the process.

​If you or your colleagues would like to become an evaluator, please send an email to tailmanagement@crowncommercial.gov.uk and include the following details:

  • name
  • organisation name
  • job title
  • email address
  • dates of known leave between June – September

Supplier assurance: having confidence in your suppliers

NB: This article was originally published on 20 February 2025. All information was correct at the time of writing, but may not be fully applicable following the introduction of the Procurement Act 2023.

What is supplier assurance in procurement and why is it necessary?

Most organisations rely upon suppliers to deliver products, systems, and services. They need to be confident that the suppliers they work with are ‘fit for business’ and able to fulfil their contractual obligations because a vulnerable supply chain can cause damage and disruption to organisations. This is especially important within the public sector, where safeguarding the delivery of public services is crucial. 

Supplier assurance is the process of evaluating potential suppliers for your procurement to mitigate risk. It encompasses a range of processes and practices designed to ensure the reliability, quality, and integrity of the products and services you buy. 

Supply chain assurance offers numerous benefits to organisations including:

  • risk assessment and management: by identifying and addressing potential disruptions, companies can minimise the impact of supply chain risks on their operations
  • quality control measures: Supply chain assurance helps maintain consistent quality standards throughout the production and distribution process
  • compliance monitoring: With increasing regulatory requirements, supply chain assurance helps businesses stay compliant with relevant laws, policies and industry standards
  • enhancing reputation: A well-managed supply chain contributes to a positive brand image and customer trust

Using the example of a secondary school, operating on tight schedules that align with academic terms, any delays in the supply of educational materials or resources could disrupt teaching schedules and impact student learning experiences. Supplier assurance can help identify strong supply chains with effective logistics, quality control measures and contingency plans to ensure that materials and services are satisfactory and delivered on time.

In the case of an NHS trust undertaking a construction project such as building a new day treatment centre, a supplier might have the exact expertise that you need, however, what would happen if you discovered half way through a project that they couldn’t meet their contractual requirements and complete the building works because they are financially unstable? Supplier assurance helps organisations better understand the financial capacity of suppliers to successfully carry out a contract. It can help assess whether appropriate risk mitigations need to be and can be put in place to address any identified issues with a bidder’s financial capacity.

Supplier assurance – the challenges for the public sector

There are several challenges for public sector organisations when successfully implementing the supplier assurance process. These include but are not limited to:

  • complexity of global supply chains and corporate structure: As supply chains become increasingly global and complex, managing risks across multiple tiers of suppliers becomes more challenging.
  • maintaining supplier compliance: Staying on top of policies, procedures, technology, etc. is an ongoing process, not a one-off checkbox. It needs to be continued post-award throughout the lifetime of your contract.
  • technological integration and resource limitations: Implementing new technologies for supply chain management can be costly and time-consuming.

How does CCS assess suppliers’ suitability?

Each year CCS helps thousands of public and non-profit organisations buy goods and services from suppliers in the private sector. We design our commercial agreements to help you buy what you need when you need it. 

Our agreements have a list of pre-evaluated suppliers, but what does this mean and how does it help to eliminate risk for your procurement(s)?

In a world of many emerging risks, CCS monitors and manages supplier assurance and due diligence; to align with industry best practice and to balance supply market risks for our customers.

We understand that our supply chains support the essential services you provide, so it’s vital our customers can be confident that they will remain comprehensive and reliable. We are always in the process of taking steps to strengthen our supplier assurance, in particular by building our capacity to assess and monitor suppliers’ economic and financial standing, in line with commercial best practice.

All suppliers are contractually obliged to adhere to assurance requirements in order to be compliant with CCS agreements. The core requirements at pre-qualification stage include: 

  • appropriate insurances 
  • cyber security 
  • adherence to policy areas such as sustainability
  • financial stability 

Some category/market areas require further assurance and that is made clear in the individual terms and conditions for each specific agreement. 

CCS monitors the core requirements of suppliers throughout the life of the agreements, which can save buyers time and effort when checking the reliability of their contractual partners.

What does each stage of the CCS supplier assurance process include?

Here is how the CCS assurance process works:

Pre-qualification assurance compliance

  • insurance: certificates are checked for correct values, dates and genuine issuers for professional indemnity, product/public liability, and employer’s liability
  • financial stability: Financial assessments are carried out in accordance with playbooks to reflect the tiering of the specific lot
  • cyber security: Cyber Essentials (+) certificates are checked for correct dates and genuine issuer
  • modern slavery: selection questionnaire responses to specific questions are checked at the compliance stage post bidding to ensure that the supplier adheres to the policy as set out in the bid pack and terms and conditions
  • carbon net zero: Carbon Reduction Plans are checked by our teams against the requirements as set out in PPN 06/21 to ensure compliance
  • prompt payment: our selection questionnaire covers mandatory and discretionary exclusions including areas such as prompt payment

Post-award assurance compliance

  • insurance: certificates are monitored near expiry and suppliers contacted for updated versions. Lack of response or incorrect documentation is escalated to the Commercial Agreement Manager (CAM) for that agreement to manage, resolve or suspend.
  • financial stability: Dun and Bradstreet alerts are sent through to CAMs to review and take appropriate action. Again, the steps taken are set out in the terms of the contract, typically including requesting and reviewing the latest accounts and in the event these are not robust, requesting a guarantor or suspension from the agreement until such a time as is financially stable and viable.
  • cyber security: Cyber Essentials(+) certificates are monitored for expiry, suppliers are contacted for updated versions. Again, a lack of response or incorrect documentation is escalated to the Commercial Agreement Manager (CAM).
  • supplier relationship management: is carried out by each CCS category group for the suppliers appointed to their agreements, and this can include; measurement against agreement KPIs, timely submission of management information, performance against contracts, outputs against social value themes for example.

Buyer responsibility

Once entered into a contract, contracting authorities are expected to manage their terms and conditions, KPIs, any policy or social value obligations as written into their contract and to assure themselves that the awarded supplier is adhering to their lawful obligations.

Most of our agreements are underpinned by the Public Sector Contract which provides legal compliance and additional assurance to contracting authorities. Our commercial teams can advise on how to make the best use of this when awarding contracts.

Help and support

You can now find all of our Procurement Essentials articles in one place on our website. 

More information and guidance for public and third sector buyers, as well as full details of all of our commercial agreements, can be found in the latest CCS digital brochure.

Our latest agreement for back office software solutions, with increased opportunities for SMEs, is launched

The Back Office Software 2 [RM6285] agreement will provide a route to market for any UK public sector organisation wishing to purchase Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions for back office applications, either in the cloud, on-premise or hybrid. 

The agreement will replace the incumbent Back Office Software [RM6194] agreement, which expires in April 2025. In addition to providing access to a large range of SMEs, it is also an agreement  that allows customers to contract directly with large software vendors such as Oracle, SAP, Salesforce, and IBM to enable competition between them as well, ensuring maximum value for money.

Back office software systems significantly improve productivity by streamlining administrative tasks, automating repetitive processes, centralising data access, and enabling better decision-making through real-time insights. Through providing a wide range of flexible and innovative software solutions, the new agreement will help to enable civil servants and public sector workers to focus on more strategic work, reducing overall operational inefficiencies across departments.

97 suppliers have been awarded a place on the framework, 53% of which are SMEs. 

The framework scope was determined through a series of market engagement sessions. It will be similar to the previous iteration but will differ by featuring 2 new distinct lots: 

Lotting structure

Lot 1 Enterprise Software

Lot 2 Software specialised solutions

Lot 1 will cover the provision of software tools including accounting software, payroll systems, customer relationship management (CRM) tools, and enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions.

Lot 2 will cover the same range of products but is designed for lower-value innovative solutions to deploy back-office software, to encourage opportunity within the SME community. 

For both of the 2 lots, buyers will have the option of procuring through directly awarded contracts or further competition. Customers can also buy associated services at the same time as their software including application design, systems architecture and data migration. 

The agreement will run for an initial term of 30 months, plus optional extensions up to a further 18 months – which could be applied for both lots, or only one. An additional key change will be the removal of Call-Off contract length limits to improve flexibility for customers

Philip Orumwense, Commercial Director and Chief Technology Procurement Officer, Crown Commercial Service says: 

This new framework provides better value for the nation through the use of cost effective and more efficient back office software solutions, freeing up civil service time to focus on providing services for citizens. 

It is yet another example of how CCS is helping to improve interoperability throughout the public sector by making it easier for organisations to link different back-office computer systems and make better use of real time data whilst enabling the acceleration of modern digital government.

Find out more

To find out more about Back Office Software 2 visit the agreement webpage or contact the CCS Service Desk at info@gca.gov.uk or 0345 410 2222.

Don’t forget, you can find a full list of all the commercial agreements we offer, alongside details of how we can help you build policy considerations into your procurement, in our interactive digital brochure.

Changes to our agreements in January

Welcome to our monthly framework update to help you with your procurement planning. We will publish it online each month and also share it in our newsletters and on our social media channels.

The update provides a brief summary of what has been awarded, extended or expired during the previous month. It also outlines what is due to expire in the next 3 months.

You can also get an overview of all of our live frameworks in our interactive digital brochure.

Agreements awarded in January

No new agreements were awarded in January.

Agreements extended in January

Agreements that expired in January

Agreements due to expire in the next 3 months

Further information

If you need further details about any of these agreements get in touch.

You can also find out what new procurements we are working on by exploring our upcoming agreement page.

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New scheme to help local authorities procure electric vehicle infrastructure

The initiative is the result of a cross-government collaboration between CCS (now GCA) and the Department for Transport (DfT), as well as the Support Body for the Local Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (LEVI) Fund comprising Cenex, the Energy Saving Trust and PA Consulting. 

Supporting the government’s ongoing commitment towards decarbonisation and the transition to electric vehicles (EVs), it aims to significantly reduce the resource and cost burden on procurement teams, allowing local authorities to focus on delivering essential services for citizens and helping to make Britain a clean energy superpower as part of the Plan for Change.

This work demonstrates the value GCA adds beyond cost savings for the public sector by supporting a streamlined procurement process that benefits local authorities, suppliers and citizens. 

Navigating EVI procurement hurdles

EVI procurement presents several challenges for local authorities and it can be a lengthy and arduous process for those involved. Simply identifying what to procure to meet the requirements for complex projects can be challenging, as can setting effective contract terms and conditions and negotiating Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with suppliers.

The initiative aims to help remove these barriers to effective procurement and help local authorities make better buying decisions. 

Local authorities will now have access to customisable template documents to simplify the process of running an open market procurement for publicly available, on-street EVI services, as well as draft terms and conditions for a contract for these services.

Simplifying the process for local authorities

These templates can then be tailored by local authorities to create their own unique set of tender documents, ensuring each procurement meets specific local needs and provides the best fit for each authority area. 

This streamlines the tender invitation process, using the templates as a starting point for this process. They align with guidance from DfT for on-street EVI and support best practice, helping authorities to achieve the best outcome from their procurement. 

The template documents have been reviewed before release by both buyers and suppliers, ensuring they are fit for purpose and easy to use, reducing the need for further clarification questions and saving more time and resources for procurement teams.

Philip Orumwense, Commercial Director and Chief Procurement Officer for Technology at Government Commercial Agency, said:

This initiative exemplifies our dedication to providing local authorities with the tools and commercial solutions they need to efficiently and effectively procure EV charging infrastructure. 

By offering this service, we are reducing burdens on local government whilst supporting access to sustainable transport solutions across a rapidly growing supplier base.

Nick Harvey, senior programme manager at Energy Saving Trust, said: 

Since the LEVI Fund’s inception, the LEVI Support Body has developed products, resources and services that assist local authorities in navigating the complexities of EV charging infrastructure procurement and deployment. 

This suite of procurement templates and guidance documents, authored by the LEVI Support Body, is another example of our commitment to creating effective and user-friendly support.

The regulations governing these contracts will change on 24 February 2025 when the Procurement Act 2023 takes effect, and any procurements started on or after this date will be subject to those new regulations. Different documentation has been created to account for contracts created under each set of regulations. 

Find out more

The template documents are now available through the GCA website.

For more information on how your local authority can benefit from this initiative, please visit our website or contact our Transport Technology category team by emailing transporttechnology@gca.gov.uk.

How to embed environmental criteria into your technology purchases

NB: This article was originally published on 30 January 2025. All information was correct at the time of writing, but may not be fully applicable following the introduction of the Procurement Act 2023.

The UK public sector, from local authorities, hospitals and schools to central government, emergency services and universities, spends more than £393 billion on procurement every year. With the right procurement solutions in place, your collective purchasing power can help bring down the cost of the transition to net zero, and deliver real change. Yet, we know from our customers that it is often particularly difficult for commercial teams to know which environmental criteria to embed into tech purchases. 

This is why Crown Commercial Service (CCS), in partnership with PUBLIC, a digital advisory firm for the public sector, and with funding from the Open Contracting Partnership’s LIFT programme, have launched a new Buying Greener Technology in the UK guide, to help public sector customers meet their environmental targets by including greener criteria in their technology procurement. 

The current landscape 

In a survey conducted for the development of the guide, 70% of public sector tech procurement staff indicated that they do not currently consider specific environmental factors in their purchasing decisions. Additionally, over 80% of respondents felt that there is insufficient guidance on how to embed green criteria into tech tenders. This highlights a significant gap in knowledge when it comes to making greener tech procurement choices.

Existing policies relating to Carbon Reduction Plans (PPN 06/21) and Social Value (PPN 06/20) offer useful frameworks for green procurement, but we have found that buyers would value more guidance on applying them effectively for maximum benefit to tech procurement.

How sustainable technology procurement can make a difference

Technology has a significant environmental impact. Currently, the technology sector accounts for an estimated 2% to 4% of global greenhouse gas emissions. It is estimated that by 2040, that number could reach 14%, which is almost as much carbon as that emitted by air, land, and sea transport combined.

Small changes in how we purchase technology and use it can lead to big differences. For example, a single laptop has a carbon footprint of around 331 kg of CO2. Considering that a local authority in the UK typically uses around 2,000 laptops, switching to refurbished devices instead of purchasing new ones could save enough CO2 to power 80 homes for an entire year.

Even software applications have growing environmental consequences. A recent study has shown that training a single AI model (the process of feeding data into algorithms to help them learn and produce accurate responses) powered by non-renewable energy can produce nearly 5 times the lifetime emissions of an average car. The guide advises how tender criteria can specify solutions that are lower in energy consumption and powered by renewables.

Therefore, making greener purchasing choices in tech can have a profound impact on reducing these emissions.

What does the new CCS guide contain?

Our easy-to-use guide aims to help commercial teams integrate environmental factors into their hardware and software procurements. Key elements of the guide include:

  • tailored guidance for 4 types of procurement: refurbished hardware, new hardware, end-of-life management, and software applications
  • customisable tender language, including specifications and award criteria for hardware and software procurements to simplify the process for procurement teams
  • step-by-step instructions for embedding environmental standards in line with existing government policies, including social value and CCS technology frameworks
  • clear guidance on what suppliers need to demonstrate to meet the environmental criteria included in the guide 

Download the guide here to find a whole range of solutions. If you need more assistance, our Sustainability and Technology teams are here to help. Contact info@crowncommercial.gov.uk.

Call for evaluators for our new audit and assurance services agreement

We are calling for volunteers from public sector organisations to support the evaluation of the new Audit and Assurance Services Two (A&AS2) agreement. This agreement will replace Audit and Assurance Services.

Evaluators are an important part of the procurement process, in addition to playing an important role within CCS, becoming an evaluator counts towards your corporate contribution. This is encouraged in departments across the Civil Service.

Evaluation of this procurement will consist of an independent evaluation followed by consensus meetings.

The procurement timescales are currently:

  • FTS release: 28 January 2025
  • evaluation period: 21 March 2025 to 1 May 2025
  • consensus: 6 May to 6 June 2025
  • award: July 2025

Volunteers will also be required to attend a short training call before being an evaluator (2 hours maximum) and be provided with the required tools and information.

Evaluators need to have commercial experience, sector experience and/or knowledge of the audit and assurance category. A competency form will be provided for completion in addition to a conflict of interest declaration.

If you are interested in acting as an evaluator or would like any further information, please contact peoplepillarcomms@crowncommercial.gov.uk.

How to get the most out of market engagement and customer intelligence

In this article, Lucy McCormack, Crown Commercial Service’s (CCS) Small and Medium Sized Enterprise (SME) Champion, explains how SMEs can get the most out of CCS preliminary market engagement and customer intelligence to help them bid for public sector contracts.

CCS is the UK’s biggest public procurement organisation. We use our commercial expertise to help buyers in central government and across the public and third sectors to purchase everything from locum doctors and laptops to police cars and electricity.

Our commercial agreements are designed to help organisations of all sizes sell to the government. We understand how important it is to have a diverse range of suppliers working with the public sector.

The government has to understand the needs and concerns of small businesses. The Cabinet Office has taken steps to ensure there is regular scrutiny of and feedback on government policy on small businesses through actions such as refreshing its SME Advisory Panel. It has considered how the government can increase spending with small businesses, as well as preparing the ground for the new public procurement regime, which has a focus on removing barriers for SMEs wishing to bid for public contracts.

Challenges for SMEs

We found that one of the key barriers faced by SMEs was a lack of adequate resources to carry out market engagement or access customer intelligence. This can result in a limited understanding of buyers’ needs and their requirements, meaning that bids are less likely to be successful. SMEs do not have whole bid teams at their disposal. There is a financial and time cost to bidding, and as winning is not guaranteed, SMEs must carefully consider each bid.

How does knowing more about the potential market help SMEs?

SMEs need to bid strategically to get the biggest return on investment, which is informed by market engagement. Through market engagement, customers give suppliers early sight of their requirements. 

Market engagement facilitates discussion of key points right from the start and ensures the specification can be refined as necessary.

What market research does CCS carry out and how does this benefit SMEs?

At CCS, we’re not just procurement specialists; we have a wealth of market knowledge and commercial expertise. When procuring our commercial agreements, we conduct early market engagement with customers to ensure all suppliers have a clear understanding of the requirement.

Our research helps us ensure that the business cases for new commercial agreements are robust. We begin customer market engagement before starting supplier market engagement to check we have captured customers’ priorities and that the proposed commercial agreement meets their needs. We want to understand the numbers of customers likely to use the commercial agreement so that we can share this with suppliers.

We also carry out extensive supplier market engagement for agreements that gives SMEs the opportunity to ask questions and challenge assumptions, such as any perception that SMEs may not be capable of delivering contracts above a certain value. CCS market engagement has highlighted that a significant number of SMEs aren’t only interested in smaller contracts. This feedback has taught us that designing commercial agreements to include a lot for small value opportunities may not always serve to increase the number of SMEs bidding. Ensuring that SMEs are included in market engagement and are able to comment on and shape the scope is much more likely to increase the number of SMEs wanting to bid.

During supplier market engagement, CCS also consults with SMEs to find out whether they have any concerns about what is being proposed and whether they see any barriers to them being able to bid. SMEs can make suggestions about, for example, the innovation that they can offer that perhaps hadn’t been considered previously and if this can be included within the scope of the agreement. Our market engagement therefore helps us to both identify suppliers that may be able to supply the requirements and to build capacity among suppliers.

Market trends

CCS carries out extensive research into industry sectors to understand market trends that will impact customers. The research could identify a need for a new commercial agreement or how existing agreements may need to change when re-procured. The research covers political, social, economic, technological, and legislative factors.

Why we conduct market engagement with suppliers

From the market engagement we undertake with suppliers, they should be able to understand:

  • the background and need for a commercial agreement.
  • what public sector customers will be looking for suppliers to deliver from calling off from the commercial agreement (the scope).
  • whether and how the agreement will be divided into different lots e.g. by product or service type.
  • the potential value of the commercial agreement, broken down by lot if lots are used (likely customer spend through the agreement).
  • an indication of tendering timescales.
  • the terms and conditions of the commercial agreement.

At this point, suppliers can give feedback about whether the proposed specification is deliverable and discuss ways to ensure social value is non-discriminatory to SMEs and VCSEs. 

Suppliers will then be able to make informed decisions about which opportunities to bid for. In line with the Procurement Act 2023 Section 17 (1), the preliminary market engagement notice, together with CCS customer and supplier market engagement sessions are detailed for each agreement in the future pipeline list on the CCS upcoming agreements page.

Find out more

To learn more about how CCS is levelling the playing field for suppliers of all sizes, download our digital brochure.

We always welcome feedback, suggestions or queries. These can be submitted to smefeedback@crowncommercial.gov.uk

New agreement to support digital transformation requirements across health and care goes live

Strategic procurement of effective and efficient digital solutions is essential in supporting the provision of healthcare services and providing faster, safer and more convenient patient care.

The new Digital Capability for Health 2 [RM6345] agreement will offer customers an agile approach to procuring all their Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) requirements, across an increased range of specialist suppliers. The service roles in scope covered within the new agreement have been updated to align with the new Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework, which was launched with the aim of bringing together the growing number of digital and tech specialists working in government to improve public services in the long-term.   

CCS worked closely with NHS England, as a key stakeholder, and engaged with the supplier market to develop the agreement, which is similar in the scope of services included to the previous iteration – Digital Capability for Health [RM6221] – which expires in July 2025. The new agreement will have an increased pool of evaluated suppliers, with the appropriate capability and skills to support health and care programmes. Maximum day rates for each role  have been included, this will allow customers to achieve further cost reductions and increase value for money through increased competition.

Made up of a single lot to simplify the procurement process, it will support a variety of customer needs across 5 service provisions to enable them to use digital technology more efficiently and support implementation of large scale transformation programmes. The agreement will support the on-going digitisation and modernisation of the NHS digital infrastructure and support the Government’s plans for the NHS. It is just one of a number of agreements from CCS designed to help public sector customers tackle the issues and challenges involved in procuring technology solutions. 

Digital Capability for Health 2 will run for 3 years with the possibility of extending by a further 12 months. Call-off contract durations can be 3+1+1 years across all 5 service provisions included in the Lot. 

Philip Orumwense, Commercial Director and Chief Technology Procurement Officer, Crown Commercial Service says: 

Through harnessing the power of technology to improve digital capability we have the potential to transform our public services.

This new framework will support the missions of the government and the NHS as they continue to optimise the use and deployment of digital capability to innovate and drive digital outcomes. It is yet another example of how CCS is helping the health sector to continue on its digital transformation journey and help get the NHS back on its feet.

Robert McMillan, Lead for Digital Data and Technology Category in NHS England Commercial Directorate says:

The Digital Capability for Health 2 agreement will build on the success of the previous iteration, further diversifying our supplier ecosystem and increasing opportunity for innovation and improved value for money.

We look forward to working with our supplier partners over the coming years to deliver improvements to the NHS.

Innovations and benefits

  • an increased evaluated pool of suppliers, with the right capability to support public sector organisations find suppliers who can create and maintain digital services for health and care
  • the new agreement aims to make it easier for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) suppliers to work with buyers by providing subcontractor opportunities
  • public sector contracting terms and conditions create an easier, more flexible route to market, tailorable to customers’ specific operational needs as part of the buyer ITT process and the use of Statements of Work.

Lotting structure

The lots will comprise: 

Lot 1: Digital Capability for Health

Find out more

To find out more about the Digital Capability for Health 2 framework visit the agreement webpage or contact the CCS Service Desk at info@gca.gov.uk or 0345 410 2222.

Don’t forget, you can find a full list of all the commercial agreements we offer, alongside details of how we can help you build policy considerations into your procurement, in our interactive digital brochure.