Whether your organisation’s travel is mainly domestic, or if you have more complex needs that include booking travel from a number of different countries, our new commercial agreement covers all of your requirements. Regardless of the simplicity or complexity of your requirements, our new Public Sector Global Travel and Venue Solutions (PSGTVS) commercial agreement provides […]
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G-Cloud 12 framework goes live
The framework was due to be announced earlier this year but had been delayed by CCS to allow customers and suppliers to focus resources on responding to the coronavirus pandemic. G-Cloud 12 offers public sector organisations a straightforward and compliant way to purchase cloud based services, such as hosting, software, and support. This is provided […]
Discover our new Artificial Intelligence Dynamic Purchasing System
Across many organisations within the public sector, customers are looking to embrace change and future-proof their business by implementing AI technologies. These emerging technologies offer a number of benefits to customers such as helping to better manage and use data, make public services more accessible, and improve diagnosis in healthcare. As the UK’s largest public […]
You have the power to shape our upcoming facilities management agreement
Take part in our facilities management survey to have your say. We have already started work on our replacement Facilities Management (FM) agreement, which is due to be launched in Summer 2022. Although this may seem a while away, we want to ensure we have sufficient time to conduct thorough stakeholder engagement. This will allow […]
8 customers save £810,000 on IT equipment through collective buying
The requirement Many organisations from across the public sector routinely purchase IT equipment such as laptops, desktops, mobiles and tablets. Organisations often purchase these commodity items as and when they need them, and this demand has only increased due to changing, more flexible working environments. We recognised this demand, and with budgets and resources more […]
How the sustainable domino effect will help the NHS
To achieve sustainability within the NHS will feel like moving a mountain with a teaspoon, it is possible but it will be a long and hard journey. The tasks are endless each with their own unique problems and firmly underlined with the central core value that what they do is save lives. A change can […]
Chronic environmental impact, a simple preventative cure for the NHS
The professionalism and speed at which the NHS adapted its buildings and facilities to cope with the influx of COVID-19 infected patients has been and continues to be impressive and inspiring. One of the many strategies employed was the rapid deployment of modular buildings. The advancements made in such manufactured facilities are astonishing and are […]
Changes to our frameworks in August
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 […]
CCS launches Buying Digital Community podcast
Over the past couple of months, I, Emilia Cedeno, Enhancing Capability Lead at CCS, have been working with colleagues and a wonderful selection of guest speakers to help create a series of insightful podcasts which I hope will help you along your procurement journey. The podcasts are presented by myself, along with guest host Josh […]
Ethical international recruitment: responding to the NHS People Plan
The NHS People Plan for 2020/21 sets out the importance of recruitment and outlines the need to increase international recruitment: NHS England and NHS Improvement and HEE are working with government to increase our ethical international recruitment and build partnerships with new countries, making sure this brings benefit for the person and their country, as […]