{"id":52208,"date":"2015-01-07T10:31:46","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T10:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=4f83f83e887966c54b8da46119534620"},"modified":"2015-01-07T10:31:46","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T10:31:46","slug":"news-story-new-vehicle-purchase-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=52208","title":{"rendered":"News story: New Vehicle Purchase agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>A new Vehicle Purchase agreement is now available from the Crown Commercial Service (<abbr title=\"Crown Commercial Service\">CCS<\/abbr>) for use by government departments and public sector organisations requiring a wide range of vehicles including cars, 4x4s, commercial vehicles, buses, coaches and motorcycles.<\/p>\n<p><abbr title=\"Crown Commercial Service\">CCS<\/abbr> has worked closely with UK police forces in the development of the agreement to ensure that, for the first time, it provides the specific vehicle types police forces require.<\/p>\n<p>Another new aspect of the agreement is the option to purchase vehicles for use overseas. The agreement also supports the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/guidelines-for-the-directive-on-the-promotion-of-clean-and-energy-efficient-road-transport-vehicles-2009-33-ec\">Clean and Energy Efficient Vehicles Directive 2009-33-EC<\/a> and can help organisations meet sustainable vehicle procurement measures.<\/p>\n<p>Customers with vehicle requirements are encouraged to take part in an eAuction which will help them achieve further savings against the already discounted agreement prices. <\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/ccs-agreements.cabinetoffice.gov.uk\/contracts\/rm1070\">View the agreement<\/a> to find out more about the full range of benefits and how to take part in an eAuction or email <a href=\"mailto:fleet@ccs.gsi.gov.uk\">fleet@ccs.gsi.gov.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This new agreement will enable government and public sector organisations to buy a wide range of vehicles.<\/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\/52208"}],"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=52208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}