Crown Commercial Service

The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) is an executive agency and trading fund of the Cabinet Office of the United Kingdom Government.

The CCS is responsible for a wide range of ‘framework agreements’ and ‘dynamic purchasing systems’, which are commercial agreements with a range of suppliers from which public sector customers can purchase goods and services. Examples include

• paper

• liveried emergency vehicles

• language services

• facilities management

• contact centres

• management consultancy

• utilities

• networks

• building materials

• temporary nursing staff

• digital specialists

Arfon Consulting’s public procurement specialists have experience on both the public Authority and private Bidder side of the Crown Commercial Service’s frameworks. Examples include:

Authority-side

• RM1045 Network Services framework agreement to Virgin Media Business to install a Unified SIP Communications network for public sector client (£715K);

• RM1557 G-Cloud 10 Software as a Service (SaaS) contract to Opus International to provide live transcription services to the Clutha Helicopter Fatal Accident Inquiry (£310k);

• RM3704 Employee Benefits appointment of a single managed service provider to provide a range of employee benefits to permanent and fixed-term employees of public sector client (£155k);

• RM3710 Vehicle Lease and Fleet Management long term lease of commercial vehicles for public sector client (£12k/vehicle); and,

• RM6187 Management Consultancy Framework 3 - Marking and evaluation of 100+ bidder responses to Lot 8 Infrastructure.

Bidder-side

• Appointment of private client as a Crown Commercial Services approved supplier to the eleventh generation RM1557 G-Cloud 11 framework agreement Lot 2 (Cloud Software);

• RM6068 Technology Products & Associated Services - Provided resourcing and support to private client’s in-house bid team in successful bid; and,

• Successful appointment of private client to the twelfth generation RM1557 G-Cloud 12 framework agreement Lot 2 (Cloud Software).

Further details and client testimonials/references are available upon request.