Crown Commercial Service

The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) is an executive agency and trading fund of the Cabinet Office of the UK Government. The CCS is responsible for managing the procurement of common goods and services, increasing savings for the taxpayer by centralising buying requirements, and leading on procurement policy on behalf of the government.[1]

Crown Commercial Service
Executive agency overview
FormedApril 1991 (originally)
January 2014 (current name)
JurisdictionUnited Kingdom
HeadquartersLiverpool
Websitewww.gov.uk/government/organisations/crown-commercial-service

History

CCS was originally created as the Buying Agency on 1 April 1991. On 1 April 2000, it became part of the newly established Office of Government Commerce (OGC) within HM Treasury. On 1 April 2001, the Buying Agency, the Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency, Property Advisors to the Civil Estate and other units from the Treasury merged to form OGCbuying.solutions. The agency's name was changed to just Buying Solutions in April 2009. On 15 June 2010, it moved, along with its parent agency the OGC, to become part of the Efficiency and Reform Group within the Cabinet Office. Its name was changed to the Government Procurement Service (GPS) in July 2011.[2] In January 2014 the GPS merged with the procurement management from government departments to form the Crown Commercial Service (CCS).[3]

Operations

CCS operates as a trading fund established under the Government Trading Funds Act 1973 with offices in Liverpool, Norwich, Newport, Leeds and London.[4]

CCS provides professional procurement services to the public sector to enable organisations to deliver improved value for money in their commercial activities and provide professional support when it matters, advising on technical issues, energy-saving and environmental improvements.

CCS's operations break down into framework agreements, which are a set of pre-tendered with a range of suppliers from which public sector customers can purchase goods and services. A small commission (typically less than 1%) is collected from the suppliers for each sale they make under these frameworks agreements.

Management of the Government Secure Intranet (GSi)

As part of its support of the national government Internet infrastructure, CCS manages the UK's Government Secure Intranet (GSi), including the entire third-level government domain .gsi.gov.uk and its sub-domains.[5]

gollark: Old protocols were not designed with security or privacy in mind. They seemingly just didn't think of it.
gollark: Insertion sort?
gollark: You can't run a debugging disk (with "root" access) without a signature from the master key there.
gollark: I used this in PotatOS for disks.
gollark: It's a digital signature not a checksum, strictly speaking.

References
  1. Crown Commercial Service, About us, accessed 12 November 2019
  2. Crown Commercial Service History Archived 2014-01-21 at the Wayback Machine
  3. Crown Commercial Service update Archived 2014-01-14 at the Wayback Machine
  4. Crown Commercial Service, About us, accessed 5 July 2016
  5. http://archive.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/e-government/resources/handbook/html/1-9-2.asp
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