{"id":51766,"date":"2014-12-17T15:37:47","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T15:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=754a0f2f201a8e936302f18a9fb7692d"},"modified":"2014-12-17T15:37:47","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T15:37:47","slug":"news-story-welcome-to-the-crown-commercial-service-on-gov-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=51766","title":{"rendered":"News story: Welcome to the Crown Commercial Service on GOV.UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>At <abbr title=\"Crown Commercial Service\">CCS<\/abbr> we\u2019re responsible for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>leading on procurement policy on behalf of the UK government<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>giving commercial advice and support to government departments, which helps them reduce their reliance on external resources<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>managing the procurement of common goods and services, so public sector organisations with similar needs achieve value by buying as a single customer<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>improving supplier and contract management across government<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>increasing savings for the taxpayer by centralising buying requirements for common goods and services and bringing together smaller projects<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For 2014 &#8211; 2015, our priorities are to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>enhance our capability by recruiting more commercial experts<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>provide a complete managed service for government departments, which includes demand management, sourcing and contract management<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>make it easier for suppliers to do business with government and increase their spend with small and medium sized enterprises (<abbr title=\"small and medium sized enterprises\">SMEs<\/abbr>)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"about-our-content-on-govuk\">About our content on GOV.UK<\/h2>\n<p>We hope you\u2019ll find it straightforward to access the commercial information from <abbr title=\"Crown Commercial Service\">CCS<\/abbr> you need on GOV.UK.<\/p>\n<p>Not all <abbr title=\"Crown Commercial Service\">CCS<\/abbr> content is visible on our home page, so if you can\u2019t find what you\u2019re looking for use the GOV.UK search bar or Google search. For example, procurement policy information from both <abbr title=\"Crown Commercial Service\">CCS<\/abbr> and the Cabinet Office is available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/search?q=procurement+policy&amp;filter_organisations%5B%5D=cabinet-office&amp;filter_organisations%5B%5D=crown-commercial-service\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll be continuously developing our content on GOV.UK to ensure we meet your needs, so if you have any feedback, or can\u2019t find what you\u2019re looking for, please complete the \u201cis there anything wrong with this page?\u201d feedback form you will find at the bottom of every web page.<\/p>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p>To speak to us about how we can help you with your commercial and procurement needs, please contact our help desk on 0345 410 2222 or email <a href=\"mailto:info@ccs.gsi.gov.uk\">info@ccs.gsi.gov.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) brings together policy, advice and direct buying; providing commercial services to the public sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}