We’ve covered (e.g. here) the recent Crown Commercial Service (CCS) consultancy tender, which has proved controversial on a number of counts, principally its perceived unfriendliness […]
We have just learned that Crown Commercial Service is today pulling the tender for its Crown Marketplace programme - CMp. Crown Commercial Service published the contract […]
We highlighted the publication of the Crown Commercial Services Management Consultancy tender (“MCF2”) recently here. CCS is setting up four “lots” to cover a range […]
In May 2015 Cabinet Office (Crown Commercial Service) told me that “we are working with McKinsey on a savings project - and they were appointed […]
We wrote here about Malcolm Harrison’s departure from the UK government’s central buying organisation, Crown Commercial Service, and with Peter Lawson, one of Harrison’s key […]
With Malcolm Harrison announcing his departure from the Crown Commercial Service in the summer to go and run CIPS, it would seem like a good […]
2018 will be a critical year for the UK’s central government procurement hub, Crown Commercial Service. We might say that about every year, I suppose, […]
As this week sees the ground-breaking Public Spend Forum public technology symposium in Washington DC (you can still register here for online access), we thought […]
Our previous articles on the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) Management Consultancy framework – where the largest “lot” for general business consulting has been scrapped just […]
The reverberations continue around the CCS decision to scrap Lot 1 (Business Consultancy) on their Management Consultancy tender which was expected to be awarded any […]
Last week we featured the “Fabulous Five” stumbling into the Crown Commercial Service supplier briefing for the Crown Marketplace forthcoming procurement. We take up the […]
The Fabulous Five were having a lovely day out in London. Jeffrey led, as usual, guide book in hand, while Dan was almost knocked over […]
