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. […]
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Home Office finds scalable, cost-effective and efficient network infrastructure services for its estate with CCS
The requirement The Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) function within the Home Office provides project management, architectural and engineering capability. It delivers a range of IT solutions across the department, including private wide and local area networks (fixed and wireless) and data centre services. Whilst a significant number of its IT services are moving to […]
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During my time working in Insurance at CCS, the market has undergone significant change. Notably, the withdrawal of insurers from the market and several large mergers. The most significant change, however, has undoubtedly been the recent hardening of the insurance market. A hardening of the insurance market means that insurance companies’ capacity for certain sectors […]
Fast provision of specialist vehicles supports the delivery of mobile COVID-19 testing
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) used our Vehicle Lease, Fleet Management and Flexible Rental Solutions (RM6096) commercial agreement to help in the fight against COVID-19. The requirement Mobile testing is playing a key role in delivering the government’s strategy to enhance testing capabilities for COVID-19 for local communities. To achieve this goal, […]
Changes to our frameworks in November
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 […]
Our new Furniture agreement helps you make smarter buying decisions
Your buying decisions have the power to make a real impact on not only your local community, but also wider society. Which is why our new Furniture agreement has been developed to not only provide an extensive product offering, but also to address modern slavery, sustainability and social value issues within the supply chain. What […]
Wirral University Teaching Hospital streamlines and saves on cleanroom requirements with CCS
The requirement The Wirral University Teaching Hospital (WUTH) is one of the largest employers in the Wirral, and supports the health and wellbeing of the community, while also playing a lead role in research, education and innovation. WUTH led a collaborative project with the Clatterbridge Cancer Centre, to procure a total rental service of cleanroom […]
Social value in construction: a quick guide to the role of procurement
The government announced it was introducing a public procurement model that takes greater account of the additional social value created by contractors who are bidding for work. The Public Services (Social Value) Act (2012) already requires public buyers to consider how they could secure social, economic and environmental benefits as part of their procurements. This […]
Solving the healthcare debt recovery jigsaw
Talking about debt is never an easy subject. This is especially true within healthcare and even more so during a global pandemic. Often, the debts you may be discussing are held by vulnerable individuals or businesses that are already under significant financial strain. When this is the case, there’s a fine judgement to be made: […]
The closure of the public switched telephone network
In 1891 an American undertaker named Almon Brown Strowger noticed that he was losing business to his competitor. After discovering that the local telephone switchboard operator happened to be the rival undertaker’s wife, he realised that when callers were asking to be connected to ‘the undertaker’, she was favouring her husband’s business over Strowger’s. In […]