We recognise that with budgets and resources more squeezed than ever, procuring public sector office supplies and equipment is no easy task. At CCS, we offer a complimentary aggregation service, also known as collective buying, to help take some of the pressure off. By combining the similar needs of customers from across the public sector, […]
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Help shape our new Estate Management Services agreement
At CCS, we’re committed to developing agreements that add power to your procurement. Whether that’s simplifying the process to give you more time to focus on your priorities, maximising your contract to buy more consciously or helping you achieve better value. As such, we are looking for volunteers to support the evaluation of the new […]
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence save over £250,000 on laptops and docking stations
The requirement The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) wanted to buy a large volume of laptops and docking stations for their staff. The equipment was needed to facilitate a move to smarter working and relocation to an office in London, which was being shared with 4 other arm’s length bodies of the […]
Changes to our frameworks 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 […]
Secure and easy access to Facilities Management services online
The digital portal significantly simplifies the procurement of Facilities Management services for public and third sector organisations. What is it? The Facilities Management (FM) digital portal is an online tool that has been developed for public and third sector organisations, to securely and efficiently procure FM services online. The portal provides a simplified procurement route, […]
Changes to our frameworks in December
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 […]
Get up to speed on the latest procurement policy updates
The Cabinet Office issued a number of Procurement Policy Notes (PPNs) in December to support public sector organisations in preparing for the UK’s exit from the EU, as well as launching a consultation into the future of public procurement. Find a Tender service Find a Tender Service (FTS) is the new UK e-notification service where […]
Sustainable IT hardware explained: what it is and how you can buy it
Sustainable IT is based on the circular economy model. This is a positive move away from the old linear product creation style of ‘take-make-dispose’, to a more sustainable ‘make-use-recycle’ route, making the most of our planet’s limiting resources. If you’re looking to buy your IT hardware such as laptops or tablets sustainably, there are a […]
84 customers save over £2.8 million on Adobe licences
Following the success in early 2020 of the aggregated procurement to establish a supplier for the new Enterprise Term License Agreement (ETLA) negotiated with Adobe, we decided to ask Lisa Shinn, Category Manager for Aggregation at CCS, how this new approach will impact the public sector. CCS has aggregated Adobe products in the past – […]
Parcel lockers provide creative solutions across the public sector
With the public sector continually asked to deliver an ever greater service with increasing finite resources, there has been a rise in the use of creative solutions to address traditional problems. Nowhere has this been seen more than in the use of smart parcel lockers, available through our Postal Goods, Services and Solutions (RM6017) framework. […]